Category: Entertainment Editorial

It’s almost September and that means the new Fall TV season is about to start and that really means that it’s time to start betting on which shows can make it a full season. I’m going to do that AND bet on which shows will get renewed for a second season. Let the betting pool…

R.I.P. Men of a Certain Age. After a meager two seasons of charming us as TNT’s only non-cop show, the network cancelled it, supposedly to make room for Salt Lake City Homicide or Grand Rapids Beat or Gonzo & Nash or some such other stupid ass cop show in a TV landscape swimming in them….

In a way my nerves answer that question, but Spielberg is (by my own admission) so powerful writing anything remotely unflattering about him is cause to worry. He actually could snap his fingers to ruin someone’s life if they’re in the entertainment industry, so I just have to hope he won’t take this article as…

When I say stars, I mean big name actors. And when I say big name actors, I don’t mean Kim Kardashian. Now this item isn’t meant to ask if actors are still necessary–I still remember all those articles saying actors were now irrelevant in the wake of completely CGI animated movies like Final Fantasy…which promptly…

I try something the site never has before with this item: nostalgia. I can still remember the first time I went to a drive in theater. It was the Summer of 1996 and the Drive In had just opened–this was before the traditional movie theater went bankrupt and used as a squatter building for meth…

By that title I mean being stuck in a movie theater while a trailer plays that you have seen, approximately, 4,000 times. It isn’t just that the preview is bad, it’s that it’s BECOME bad because of the sheer volume of times you’ve been forced to watch it. Though if the trailer really sucks seeing…

This week is going to be illegal immigrant week here on Alabama Liberal, but today I’d like to address the real problem. Instead of deporting Mexicans deboning chickens at Tyson Foods, we ought to be focusing on the real menace to society that’s hogging up all the good jobs: the British, Irish, Scottish, South African,…

[This is already sort of an out of the gate bust, as I’ve seen two of these movies since I originally made this list. Oh well…] 5. Cowboys and Indians: The only big budget Summer blockbuster that looks like it has a shred of originality. This matchup of Western and Sci-fi might be terrible but…

So last Thursday the search began for an official replacement for Steve Carell’s long reigning, brain dead manager Michael Scott. The two episodes before that were standalone episodes featuring different managers to good effect (Will Ferrell’s favorites playing boss Deangelo) and bad effect (after 7 long seasons of coveting the job you can’t have Dwight…

Despite the laundry list of rules horror movies like Scream tell us there are, there really are only three: 1. Hot women, black guys, and older cops don’t fare so well, 2. The best person to be is a little kid, since Hollywood executives typically don’t let them die even if they might be in…

Nicolas Cage hasn’t had a great year or even a great decade. It’s been years since Cage’s name has even been said in the same sentence as a hit movie and much longer since he’s been associated with a good one. He’s having major tax trouble with the IRS and engaged in some of the…

I feel it only appropriate to squeeze at least one item out of watching all 5 seasons of Big Love, so here goes… 5. The Worst Season: Season 4. This is the season even Chloe Sevigney (who plays bitter second wife Nicky, ironically the best thing about this particular season) said sucked. It started out…

The new movie Hall Pass pretty much came and went the weekend before last opening to a disappointing 13 million (initially expected to open at about 20 million) and unlikely to do much better this last weekend. Something that struck me in the previews was that they hardly mentioned the film was directed by the…