0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/10/2014
The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum sits on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It’s an oddly shaped triangular building between a science center and an airport. The official reason this building sits in Cleveland is that local disc jockey Alan Freed coined the phrase “rock n’ roll.” The […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 4/9/2014
If you were a kid growing up in the late 80s or early 90s, The Ultimate Warrior was one of the most iconic figures of your childhood. He was a mythical creature from Parts Unknown who seemed to possess supernatural powers and shot to superstardom in the WWF. Long before the days when pro wrestling […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 4/4/2014
By its nature, Jeopardy is supposed to be very predictable. On every show you’ll see a Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy round. All of your answers have to be in the form of a question. All the dollar amounts remain the same — there’s no gimmicks with Jeopardy like we’ve seen with Millionaire or Deal […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/2/2014
The Flaming Lips have never been a band to follow the basic blueprint for popular rock bands. Whether it was releasing an album like Zaireeka, which requires the listener to play four CDs simultaneously, or the 24-hour song “7 Skies H3” that has its own website playing a continuous audio stream, the band likes to […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 4/1/2014
The Walking Dead has reached a place in American culture where no scripted cable television series has ever gone before. It’s more than just a cultural phenomenon, it’s the most popular show on all of television for younger viewers. The popularity of the show has been revolutionary in the television industry. America’s love for zombies […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/31/2014
With the end of March also comes the end of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother. After nine seasons, the series is wrapping up, finally giving us the ending that the show and its title promised when it debuted in 2005. I plan on watching the series finale, yet I don’t know how excited I […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/25/2014
Earlier this month, John Ridley won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, celebrating his work on 12 Years a Slave (which also won Best Picture). During his acceptance speech, I was kind of hoping that Ridley would make some acknowledgement, any sort of nod toward a movie he wrote 12 years ago: Undercover Brother. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/21/2014
I’d like to think I’m a dedicated television watcher. I pay more than I probably should for the cable package with all the premium channels, so that I’m not deprived of any of the great shows being produced by HBO, Showtime or even Starz. I have a Roku in one room, a Chromecast in another, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/20/2014
After decades of scandal, war, and protest, the 1980s were a decade defined by excess and greed. Pop culture became the norm with entertainment and news merging into one entity. Hell, the president was a former actor who quoted Dirty Harry, and Clint Eastwood was the mayor of Carmel, California. It was a decade struggling […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 3/19/2014
When you write about television, you tend to use super flowery language. It can become a little… not grating, but it kind of misses the point sometimes. When’s the last time you watched a show where all you could think was “Oh my god… awesome.” That show, for me, is Rick and Morty, which is close […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/16/2014
“We didn’t get ’em all, Marty,” Rust Cohle laments. He’s been laying in a hospital bed, emerging from a coma, having nothing to do but stare out the window at the stars in the dark night sky and continually think about the case that he’s been obsessed with for 17 years. “And we ain’t going […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/14/2014
By now the 24-hour newscycle has moved on, and President Barack Obama’s surprise appearance on the web comedy show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is slowly fading from the headlines. The Funny or Die video to promote the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) has been viewed 15 million times in just three days. It […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore
I totally forgot the Veronica Mars movie was coming out until about two days ago. I passed through a review and realized that in just 48 hours, it would be a real thing that I could consume in a movie theater or on my laptop. And I did, despite having not thought of it lately […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/10/2014
Early on during Fox’s new version of Cosmos, host Neil deGrasse Tyson shares what is likely a guiding principle for his life and work, but certainly a fundamental premise of this new show: “Science gives us the power to see what our senses cannot.” What our senses can’t see without science — and some extremely […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 3/3/2014
Thankfully, the Oscars had Lupita Nyong’o Sunday night. The 86th Academy Awards was a tough watch. Maybe it’s always tough, as Hollywood gives itself a collective pat on the back and the ceremony hands out awards to many winners whom only the most hardcore of movie followers and analysts are familiar with. As vital to […]
