Little-known secret about me: I really like TV. But whatevs, who doesn’t, right? Sadly (although not really, because most have passed their prime long ago), many landmark shows are either in, entering, or just had their final seasons, but as seminal rock band Semisonic once taught us, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end, right? And so, Desperate Housewives might be ending, but Ringer is just beginning. Chuck is done, but 2 Broke Girls, the little racist show that could, is but a newborn babe. (Seriously though, if you fast forward past the racism, it’s a good show!) And so, of course, the Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite New Show of 2011? Continue reading
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An old man wants to get his groove back by sexting his old girlfriend, Top Gun. Psychopaths can be bought for cheap, right? Single at 65, sure. Kardashian’s create another monster, and ABC breaks up with some dudes.
Gird your loins, the ones without Viagra, Hollywood has news for you… Continue reading
We thought this would never happen again, but we were wrong. Somehow Shyamalan was able to free himself from his underwater jail, and he will again make a movie. Drat! We really thought we’d stopped him this time. We lined his cell with critically acclaimed movie reels and hoped it would work like Kryptonite. No such luck. Oh, well, it will be awful!
Take a look at what’s coming soon. Continue reading
You’re watching a movie, or a trailer, or a movie promo (New Year’s Eve, sheesh.) and someone appears on screen and you do it. It’s not loud or anything, but still you do it – you groan. It isn’t always because the actor is so pathetically horrible, and maybe once upon a time they had a real “it” factor, but now, yes now, they have an uncanny way of being the most annoying thing dancing across your screen at this particular moment. Is it the character? Perhaps. Or maybe it’s who they are. Oh, don’t say that. You don’t know these people. They’re actors. Just who do you think you are, some sort of judge? You’re not. But, well, you kind of are.
Let’s take a look at a few stars who’d we’d like to like.
In a fall schedule filled with over-stuffed television bloated with plot devices we’ve seen before, laugh tracks we thought were a thing of the past, and NBC, who can’t keep a stable of good shows on the air if you paid them directly for the luxury — many viewers have been turning to non-network TV to accomplish what random sitcoms and exhaustive procedural dramas haven’t been able to create — real entertainment.
Has Starz hit paydirt? Continue reading
We open with the barn looming in the background as an ominous display reminding us of what kind of world these characters are truly living in, and if the music is any indication, we know that tonight there will be a showdown of some sort, whether it is man against walker, or man against man…things at the Greene farm will never be the same.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Netflix, which once seemed untouchable, has announced that they are predicting losses for all of 2012. They are mainly attributing their losses to expanding service to the U.K. and Ireland, but a loss of subscribers following a public relations gaffe this summer is not helping.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt never had this problem. Bradley Cooper needs a hug, guys. Soderbergh gets the short end of the Tatumpole. Sharon Stone signs on for porn, kinda. Peter Dinklage talks fantasies — and for television — time stands still.
This week’s Hollywood dish is up in arms!
There are just a bunch of crazed dingleberries over at that network. Seriously. You really want to believe that their decision making ability is in tact, but what it seems we’re actually getting is drunk uncle Marvin, singing show tunes to an oven mitt, declaring war on a lobster pot, and flirting shamelessly with your mother’s cousin Shirley.
NBC needs an intervention.
In this simmering pot, which often seems a bit too slow to boil, will questions be answered this week? Will we find Sophia? What is going on at the Greene farm, and finally will zombies rise again to remind us of what these characters really and truly face, or will we continue to only ponder the intricacies of humanity.
Let’s find out.