Category: Entertainment Editorial

165 movies were seen by me in 2013, and now it’s time to list what I thought of them all, below is the worst, the mediocre, and the absolute best of 2013! As always, just because two films share the same letter grade doesn’t mean they’re equal, and the rankings reflect how I would stack…

Certain things enter into the collective culture, and it’s very hard to shake them. So when a lot of people say “Emma Thompson will be nominated for Saving Mr. Banks” for a performance that nobody really loves or “Inside Llewyn Davis will be nominated because the Coens are never not nominated” for a film that most people…

Last week we dealt with the worst, and now it’s time to face the best. I had to weed out several favorites who have made the list in multiple year’s past (like Parks and Rec’s great Leslie Knope) because their characters weren’t spun off in nearly enough new directions. I wanted to make way for…

It’s that time of the year again: time for insipid, arbitrary “best of” lists counting down things I liked in movies, TV, and books. Perhaps the most popular of these is my annual “Ten Best TV Characters” of the year, and I promise that’s coming…next week. But, for now, why not take a look at…

Today, reviews of two books centered around exceptionally devious women. Looks like over a year after Gone Girl, the influence of the treacherous Amy Dunne is still being felt. And now on with the show! Two books enter the thunder dome, only one book can leave…   The Execution of Noa P. Singleton…What’s It About:…

In order to be well-informed enough for my annual “Ten Best Books of the Year” list, I’ve been plowing through a hopelessly long reading list lately, and I thought I’d make it a little more fun by showcasing some pop culture battles. This week’s battle is between two “scary” books about monsters: a political allegory…

The Sundance Channel recently wrapped their six-part series “Dream School,” which features 15 kids who either quit their last schools or were kicked out, and will attend The Dream School filled with celebrity teachers in hopes of graduating high school. [Or something like that, we learned last night that the big test they took didn’t…

NBC just cancelled Ironside and did that lesson teach them that maybe TV remakes of old TV shows aren’t such a good idea? Hell no! They’ve just green lit new remakes of “Remington Steele” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Yikes… Don’t get me wrong, TV adaptations are hotter than ever (The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, even True…

I don’t know that I’ve ever written an article about “50 Shades of Grey,” and I don’t know that I ever will because this article is really about a particularly nasty strain of “fan” that isn’t all that different from an anti-fan. For today’s “fans” nothing is good enough. They’re rapid fanboys (or, just as often, fangirls)…

It’s become something of a running theme on The Good Wife to portray black women as either antagonists or as headaches for the white characters. It’s sad that a show with such nuanced, well-developed portrayals of white women can’t seem to figure out that black women shouldn’t be treated as plot nuisances for the white…

One good way to deal with Breaking Bad Withdrawal (surely as real as any crystal meth addiction) is to make up trivial lists and rankings. And that’s exactly what I’m about to do! I’m ranking the intelligence of all the criminals on the show! I would put it from LEAST intelligent to MOST intelligent and…

Sadly, we’re only a few hours away from finding out exactly how Breaking Bad is going to go out, so it’s prognosticate now or forever hold your peace. I’ve indulged in wild speculation over the years but it’s now time to break it down into What I Think WILL Happen, What I WANT to Happen,…

Only a few years ago, people were heralding that the golden age of Television drama had arrived, and they were absolutely right. You had “Rome,” “Deadwood,” “The Sopranos,” “Brotherhood,” “Lost,” “The Shield,” and “The Wire” on all at the same time. As all those shows gradually faded out, the only truly worthy successor to them became…