It’s pretty rare I get to combine politics with entertainment but I’m hoping today will inspire some discussion. MSNBC is known as the “liberal Faux News” for its brand of liberal commentators, and today I’d like to know who your favorite is? If I had to pick a favorite among the “five core commentators” (Chris…
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TV Review: Hell On Wheels
Today’s TV review is AMC’s Hell on Wheels, a show that a couple of people asked me to review weeks ago on the day after its premiere. I would have been happy to oblige then (and welcome any requests for future shows) but I like to give a show a couple weeks to marinate. I…
Monday Morning Movie Reviews: Take Shelter
Unlike all of the other movies I’m reviewing today, this one is still in (very few) theaters. It will be a couple months before anyone can rent it but I would really recommend that. I think this is the kind-of movie that plays best at home for four or five bucks instead of in a…
Movie Reviews: Bellflower
Another one for the scrap heap. And by that I mean that Bellflower technically came out months ago (I believe it first went into very limited release in early August) but I only now caught up with it On Demand. Bellflower is a bit different than The Dilemma or Super or Last Night in that…
Movie Reviews: The Dilemma
A straight turd from January of this year that I never actually saw until it showed up on HBO last week. So I killed two hours and held my nose to watch it. What Works: Some of Vince Vaughn’s fantasy sequences as he’s lying really work. They snap the movie out of its formulaic rhythms…
Movie Review: Super
Like Last Night, this was an independent movie released much earlier in the year but I just never got around to reviewing it until now. Back in the very first weeks of the site’s history, I felt like it was a waste of time to do more than two movie reviews a week as no…
Movie Review: Last Night
Today I’m getting some movies out of the way that I might have watched a long time ago. For whatever reason, I either thought the movies needed more time to marinate or I thought holding them for a bit would be better. In all cases, neither of those things turned out to be true. First,…
Sunday’s Sermons: The Rise of Newt, and the Fall of Frank. Why God?
That title might be slightly misleading. Newt Gingrich’s “rise” to the top of the Republican (scrap) heap probably has as much to do with them exhausting all the other candidates (Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain) in one embarrassing flub after another as it does with anything Newt is doing. And the second slightly misleading…
Larger Editorials: Alabama’s Shifting Attitudes Towards Gay Marriage
Occasionally, I get asked why I don’t talk about issues that relate to homosexuals more often. The argument usually goes “Surely, there is enough material to write about gay marriage in one of the most homophobic states in the country.” And of course there is, except for two things: 1. I haven’t met that many…
Petty Issues
It’s so sad to see Barney Frank retire this week…well, at least we have Alan Grayson in the House to help–wait, okay now it’s really sad see to see Frank go, but don’t worry, at least we have Anthony Weiner to fight for us–shit… Herman Cain (who is making Bill Clinton look asexual at this…
Entertainment Editorial: The Ten Best Characters On TV in 2011
I watch a lot of TV by trade and feel like I have seen all the necessary shows to be able to say what I think are the best ten characters on TV THIS YEAR (Sorry, Don Draper and co.). If I didn’t include some of your favorites it’s probably because I really like a…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Hugo
Like all the best kid’s films, Hugo isn’t really for kids. To say it’s the best movie ever made about an orphan and a forgotten director in a Parisian train station is probably an understatement. Of all the movies I’m reviewing today, this is without a doubt the one I would recommend, and yet Hugo…
“Movie” Review: Twilight, Breaking Dawn Part 1
That title is either a threat or a promise depending on who you are, and for me it’s most definitely a threat. I’ve been as patient as anyone possibly could be with the Twilight films (I actually liked parts of the first and third ones) but this fourth installment is a real turd. So far,…