Category: Entertainment Editorial

I don’t get to see enough Broadway shows to make theater-reviews a regular part of the site, but if I catch one worth talking about afterwards, I think it’s worth mentioning. And The Heiress is one of those shows. Roughly a year ago, I gave the (then) red-hot play Other Desert Cities a mixed review,…

Gooooooooooooodddddddddamn, these nominations were some tricky devils, diverging heavily from the Screen Actor’s Guild, the Director’s Guild, and the Golden Globe awards. [Although the Golden Globes shouldn’t be entirely unexpected, as the Academy has embraced a more independent-movie-based mindset than their gaudy, celebrity-driven friends in the Hollywood Foreign Press.] Oh well, let’s get to it……

Just like last year’s list, this won’t be every movie that came out in 2012, but instead a list of the movies I’ve reviewed (and some that will be reviewed in the near-future). Because, well, one of our favorite things about the end of a year is listing everything we liked (or didn’t), so why not get…

Are these the best books of the year? Obviously, I have no idea, as I haven’t read a large majority of the novels that were released in the last year. I’ll just say I’ve read most, not all but most of the ones that have been placed on End-of-the-Year lists (notable exceptions include The Twelve…

Note: Nearly all of these books have been featured on “Best Books of the Year” lists, and yet, I found all of them to be lacking in some fundamental way. The subtitle of this article could almost be “When Everyone Else Loves a Book that You Merely Like” but that wouldn’t fit on the Twitter…

Sadly, Christmas is now behind us, and it’s time to focus on the New Year. And what better way to do it than to think about managing your time. And what better way to think about managing your time than to start picking off good-for-nothing TV shows that might have started off good but have…

“Quentin Tarantino is a genius, a singular artist and visionary that is unrivaled in movies today. He can do no wrong.”–The consensus. And it’s true for the most part, or, at least, it was true when Pulp Fiction came out. The problem with all the talk of Tarantino’s genius is that it’s become clear he…

Am I a day late and a dollar short on picking out November’s Book of the Month Club? Absolutely, and I apologize profusely for that. Even worse, I’m posting it on a Saturday, where many of the people that would really want to see it probably won’t, but I thought the sooner the better… Anyway,…

Okay, so this October book of the month club pick is royally messed up by Hurricane Sandy. See, the last Monday of the month (my preferred time to list the book of the month) was thwarted by not having a working internet connection. My apologies to readers but maybe I can claim it as an “Act of…

On the eve of the election (but it’s still a monday, where I’m supposed to talk about entertainment), it might be a great time to unwind with a movie about a political campaign. So the question persists: what’s the best one? That’s a tough question, since the majority of political movies are about campaigns. [There’s…

I’m about two weeks late with this one as some of the new Fall shows (roughly a third) have already premiered. Oh well, but it does mean I probably won’t go as in-depth as I might have… NBC…Poor NBC, it’s been dead last for years and I don’t see that changing much this year. The…

Unlike The Oscars, which have almost no surprises by the time the other five dozen movie awards shows have already come on, The Emmy awards are extremely hard to predict. That’s because the only other televised awards shows that deal with TV (The Golden Globes, and The SAG Awards) also deal with movies, and, therefore, pretty…

It’s great to pretend that critics go into movies entirely neutral about them, but, honestly, they don’t. There are just always going to be some movies you look more forward to than others. It was true when I did a similar list in the summer, and especially true in the Fall…where Hollywood rolls out their…