Category: Entertainment Editorial

Note: Both of these books are from last year, so I won’t review them in-depth. Most people who will read them probably already have, BUT don’t worry, I’ll have reviews for several newer titles throughout the day…   The Twelve Tribes of Hattie…Nearly perfect. It follows “the African-American experience” through Hattie and her children and…

Last Thursday brought the devastating news that the country’s most iconic film critic, Roger Ebert, had passed away after announcing only the day before that his cancer was resurgent. It’s hard to explain the impact Ebert had on movies, but he has unquestionably had the most influence over the shape of film criticism over the…

Last Monday, I reviewed the majority of what the Academy Awards considered the best documentaries of 2012, and yet…I don’t think a one of them would have made my list. Only The Invisible War would even be close. So what would make the cut? Runner-Up: Mansome…Morgan Spurlock’s dissection of what makes a man in the…

The Good Wife is supposed to be set in Chicago (it’s really filmed in New York) and is a pretty realistic depiction of politics and power in that city. And yet…black recurring characters are few and far between, odd for a city that is known for having a strong base of African-American influence (Obama said…

Over the years, I’ve always rolled my eyes whenever people bring up media violence being too extreme. I grew up during The Matrix/Natural Born Killers/Doom era where anyone and everyone seemed like a potential school shooter if they enjoyed a Terminator film. All of it seemed overblown to say the least. So I never thought…

[Note: There’s no review of The Gatekeepers since, well, I haven’t seen it. It’s also the only one still in theaters, so it’ll be the hardest to get access to for the majority of people who’ll miss these films until they hit Netflix or Redbox.] Searching for Sugar Man…This was the winner of the Best…

None of these are new books, but they were recently made available in paperback and are some of the best reviewed books of last year. Maybe I was a bit negligent in compiling a Best Books of 2012 list without reading all of them first, but even though I did really enjoy two of them,…

Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway Best Director: Steven Spielberg Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence (unfortunately, I don’t think Jessica Chastain can pull it out) Best Picture: Argo   So boring…

7:00 p.m. Community is back, and Troy/Abed acknowledge the long break right off the bat. 7:01 p.m. Fred Willard as Pierce, while everyone else gets a traditional sitcom welcome. 7:02 p.m. “Here’s the deal Jessica Biel.”–Britta. Abed is having trouble coping with the fact that this is the beginning of the last year of school….

Just like last year, I’ve grown tired of all the other awards shows that come out this time of year…The Golden Globes, the Grammys, the Screen Actor’s Guild, the Producer’s Guild, the Director’s Guild, hell, Betty White’s birthday is going to be televised on NBC this week. So, naturally, it’s time for Alabama Liberal’s underrated/overrated…

Just like last year [http://alabamaliberal.com/entertainment-editorial-the-ten-best-characters-on-tv-in-2011/] I decided to count down the list of the Ten Best Television Characters of 2012. Although I also added in some special awards and the 5 worst characters on quality shows. So that means only characters that were on the air in 2012 (sorry, Enlightened) are eligible, and I even decided…

Last night’s finale was about all we could hope for. It trafficked in the series trademark emotion (which separated it from other sci-fi shows and made it feel more like an intimate drama than anything that would ever be on the SyFy channel), had plenty of touching moments for the core characters, contained a trip…

So tomorrow night will see the series finale of the sporadically great, occasionally frustrating Fox sci-fi show Fringe, which somehow managed to stay on the air for five seasons despite always being on the ratings bubble, and really struggling in its last couple seasons on Friday nights. [No real surprise though, since Friday is where…