Category: TV and Movies
Monday Trivia No. 137 [Kolohe wins!]
The Doc may think he has an advantage this week. But nothing’s stopping you from snaking a win from him!
An Art Review Becomes Itself a Work of Art
Via The Dish and Vimeo comes a video montage that moves past fan-fidling and transcends into something singularly marvelous.
Monoprogramming
Burt Likko’s been watching a little more television than usual. And he has a question.
The Writers’ Room
If you like TV and have not heard about Sundance Channel’s “The Writers’ Room”, I heavily recommend it. Jim Rash (who played the Dean on “Community”) hosts a different group of writers from a...
Hollywood Love Stories Vs. The Giant Mechanical Man
The Giant Mechanical Man tackles a subject that Hollywood pretends to care about but actually ignores: falling in love.
Linda Holmes Discovers The Joy Of Bad Science Fiction Movies
One of NPR’s pop culture reviewers got the cinematic equivalent of nachos with extra cheese sauce the other day. It’s fun and tasty even though you know it’s not good for you. The reviewer seems like she has only just discovered the joy of Bad Cinema, but now she’s hooked. In particular she seems amazed that they got “Actual Actor John Heard” to pummel a foam rubber shark with a barstool. The way that works, of course, is that the Actual […]
Iron Man 3: One Big Joke
Tony Stark suffers from PTSD, Pepper Pots is mad because he bought her a giant stuffed rabbit for Christmas, and an enigmatic terrorist called the Mandarin is taking responsibility for supposed suicide bombings in...
Highlights from Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 2
Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, “Dark Wings, Dark Words,” was the first one I watched all by my lonesome. Sipping some gin and finishing off the remnants of a week old chocolate...
Kathryn Bigelow Trolls Zero Dark Thirty Critics
Kathryn Bigelow’s op-ed in the L.A. Times rebutting criticisms of her film is about more than Zero Dark Thirty. The piece also demonstrates a tendency that’s only all to frequent when it comes to the...
Why Zero Dark Thirty?
I went into Zero Dark Thirty with several preconceptions. I followed the debate between film critics and political journalists very closely. I was aware of the movie’s major plot points and already had a list of key...
What (New) Documentaries Should People Watch?
I haven’t watched one in a while, and though I lean towards the political type, or those documentaries which depict the worst kinds of social injustice, I’m willing to take a spin outside my wheel...
Scalia Worries Televising SCOTUS Proceedings Will Misinform
Actually, Antonin Scalia is right. I do not write those words often, or lightly. And it is actually Kevin Drum who comes off as glib and dismissive in this recent post on the Supreme...
The Amazing Spider-Man: Getting Lost Along the Road Already Traveled
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man has the undeserved misfortune of coming second. Rebooted only 10 years after Sam Raimi first brought the web slinger to the big screen, The Amazing Spider-Man suffers from been there/done that fatigue....
What Is Game Of Thrones For?
Warning: This post contains spoilers through the second book of A Song of Ice and Fire and the second season of Game of Thrones. Also, if you choose to follow the links, you are...
How The Avengers Succeeds
“They’re a mash-up; they’re insane,” Whedon says. “But the beauty of that is as exciting as the problem of that is daunting.” Marvel’s The Avengers is an impressive monster. A juggernaut at the box...
The Tragedy of Prometheus
by Sam Wilkinson I have never seen the movie Alien from beginning to end. I have seen the entire movie, but only ever in pieces. I can’t bring myself to watch it in one go, if...
“Girls be making HBO shows, am I right?”
This gives a brief (if overly patronizing and insensitive) summary of what bothered me about HBO’s new show: Girls. I didn’t know much about it going in, other than I was pretty excited. Anyone...
