Toy Story
Why did Star Wars go off the rails? The Los Angeles Times takes a look at the producers’ internecine squabbles — and how the toy industry shaped the movies’ trajectory:
Category: TV and Movies
Community, technology, & work
I think this Amanda Marcotte piece is pretty interesting. She touches on the idea of work and community and how the modern workplace has, until very recently, served to cut us off entirely from...
Lost blogging – ‘Sundown’
I’m a little late to my Lost blogging again – mainly because I didn’t end up watching ‘Sundown’ until this past Friday. I thought it was a good episode. Very dark. The show is...
Lost blogging – ‘Lighthouse’
I think I’m going to start blogging weekly on the final season of Lost. I wish I’d started this with the season premiere, but it’s too late for that. As a primer – I...
Holiday Movie Recommendation
Our end-of-year movie podcast featured plenty of spirited argument, but one point of unanimous agreement was the excellence of “The Hurt Locker,” which manages to do justice to the Iraq War without lapsing into...
Podcast: Holiday Movie Edition
Blogging is going to be pretty slow around these parts for the next few days, but before everyone disconnects for Christmas, we’ve got a year-in-review movie podcast for your enjoyment. I’m joined by Freddie...
Why Emperor Palpatine Wasn’t as Wrong as You Think
We have enough examples of republican forms of galactic government to know that the alternative isn’t that much better.
TV Blogging: The Office
Meghan Keane really, really doesn’t like the direction The Office is headed. I’m a little confused by some of her points, though. Like this: Jim and Pam getting married did more than give Michael...
Podcast: The Golden Age of Television
I sat down with Freddie and Sonny Bunch, film critic for the Washington Times and a blogger at Conventional Folly, to talk about the A.V. Club’s much-discussed list of the decade’s best television shows....
The Golden Age
I know the League’s commentariat already went a few rounds over The A.V. Club’s “decade in television” rankings, but The Hollywood Reporter has just released another top ten compilation with more than a few...
Son of The Wire
Matt Yglesias says: What’s really depressing to me about the current TV landscape isn’t so much that we haven’t seen another Wire-quality show as it is that we haven’t even seen a serious effort...
Glenn Beck and Southpark
Here’s Beck on his radio show, taking the Southpark parody rather well I think.
Best Television Shows of the Decade
The Onion ranks ’em – let the arguments commence! After reading the list, you begin to realize how consistently excellent the last few years of television have been. My personal top five consists of...
Public Service Announcement
Hulu has just added “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” “A Fistful of Dollars,” “Ronin,” and perhaps most importantly, “Spartacus.” God bless the Internet.
“deep thoughts” on television shows I watch or used to watch
1. Deadwood, aside from being far too foul-mouthed for my taste (and a bad influence on me) was pretty good the first season. After that it totally fell apart. I think this was because...
Lost vs. Heroes
Following up a little on my last post wherein I quoted Peter Suderman lamenting the lack of direction and planning for the show Battlestar Galactica, let me just add that two other shows I...
