Category: Entertainment Editorial

We’re past the quarter mark for the year and about to head into “The Summer Movie Season” where everything is exploding, animated, or includes dick jokes, but (let’s be honest) since we never really leave that season anymore and Hollywood makes blockbusters (or big flops like John Carter) year-round, we can’t just ignore the late…

Today brings our monthly “Book of the Month” Club selection, but also the very first one to be a non-fiction book. In fact, I can’t say I really enjoy non-fiction books, and have often times bemoaned the fact that no one seems to read novels anymore. Still, “C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy” by…

It’s not every week I get to deal with race in an entertainment editorial, and some of you might wonder why I’m not talking about this in “Sunday’s Sermons,” but I feel strongly that this needs to be addressed. It’s the same old song-and-dance. Hollywood casts mostly white actors, and people complain that Television isn’t…

Right now is that time when the networks begin deciding what shows are coming back in the Fall, and which ones are going to that big T.V. graveyard of “Gone too Soon.” So I thought it’d be worthwhile to explore which network TV shows I hope come back for another season, and which ones I…

Okay, a quick word about the nature of pilots and pilot season before I list some of the ones that sound most promising. Just for those that don’t know, a TV “pilot” is the very first episode of a TV series. It’s what a network will watch, and then make a decision on to see…

Last week brought the news that North Korea has finally decided to give up their nuclear program in favor of something crazy, like not letting their citizens starve to death. The constantly-struggling nation struck a deal to give up nuclear production in exchange from massive aid from the United States. Still, who knows if the…

In the past few weeks, it seems like everybody and their brother has had an awards show. The Grammys, the Golden Globes, The Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, The Director’s Guild Awards, the Producer’s Guild Awards, the Teamster’s Best Awards, the Catering Services Awards, etc. And then of course the Oscars. Well fuck that noise. This…

I can’t say tonight’s show was the worst Oscar telecast but its damn sure the worst I’ve watched from start to finish. There were no good surprises (The Artist sweep), a couple bad ones (Meryl over Viola, Undefeated over Paradise Lost 3), and Billy Crystal bringing the house to a yawn with a poor performance…

The Oscars–as anyone who’s watched television or seen a magazine cover recently knows–are exactly a week from right now. This looks to be one of the most boring shows of the last decade as two things from the past make a big comeback: Billy Crystal and silent films. It’s hard to look at the likely…

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline! I won’t pretend this is the best written novel of last year and that the book couldn’t stand to be 50 pages shorter (although its 368 page length isn’t bad at all), but it’s definitely more fun than many books I’ll choose will be and the perfect book for…

Unlike most people, I actually hate commercials. Well, actually that would make me 100 percent like most people, but I guess the big difference is that I also don’t like the commercials during the Super Bowl. Let me put it this way: when you fundamentally don’t like dog shit on your shoe, it doesn’t matter…

Longtime readers of the site know that there’s no greater wildcard than the item I call “Entertainment Editorial.” I might use it to call George Clooney “The King of Fall” and cover his career, I might use it to predict Oscar nominations or which Fall TV shows will survive, or I might use it to…