I’m going to grade a few of the season finales we saw in May. These aren’t all the shows I watch (in fact, this is the first episode of The Mentalist I’ve seen all the way through), but it’s the most notable season finales. Looking at this crew it’s become apparent the big four networks…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Entertainment Editorial: Forget the GOP nomination, Who Will Be the New Manager on The Office?
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…
TV Review: The Borgias
Last night saw the first season finale of the new Showtime series The Borgias (after only 9 episodes which really feels like a problem that a first season show ran out of material that fast but anyway…). Problem is, the show doesn’t feel that new. Indeed, Showtime is the network that brought us The Tudors,…
Movie Review: Thor
By now everyone in the country that is going to see this movie already has, so you’ll be glad to know I would recommend it. I mean, after all, you don’t want to spend your money on a movie and then find out I wouldn’t recommend it two weeks later ;) What Works: The Asgard…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Bridesmaids, a let down
Most of the time I’m perfectly in line with what other critics think, and we get to stand alone dissing movies that the general public goes to see in droves (hello Hop). Or sometimes I don’t like a movie the critics do, but since the general public doesn’t either, I don’t have to feel too…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: African Cats
Am I wrong for liking this movie as much as I did? I’m not the biggest lover of nature documentaries out there, in fact, I can’t make it through one without falling asleep, but I really enjoyed this one. What Works: This thing is as interesting as it possibly could be. Samuel L. Jackson provides…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Something Borrowed, Something Shitty
I saw the movie Something Borrowed this weekend…wait, stop throwing eggs at me… What Worked: Most valuable player John Krasinski stole the movie with just a few lines, exhausted reaction shots, and by being the only character in the movie with any sense. What Didn’t Work: Kate Hudson looks like Kathleen Turner. Jennifer Goodwin has…
Fast and Furious: Slow Witted and Brain Dead
One of the good things about doing reviews a little later than most reviewers (and two weeks can be long enough for a movie to be forgotten in today’s age) is that you get a chance to measure a movie after the first wave of critical reception. You can survey the damage of how right…
Rio: You will never, ever be Pixar
Is 2011 the worst year for animated movies? It’s looking that way. Not only has there not been a SINGLE watchable one so far besides Rango (and many, many more duds like Gnomeo and Juliet or Hoodwinked 2), there hasn’t been an instant classic produced like last year’s How I Met Your Dragon. That was…
Arthur: I Hate You Russell Brand
Of all the new “movie stars” in the last decade that make no sense to me (Vin Diesel, Ludacris, hell, the entire Fast and Furious cast) the one that makes the least sense is Russell Brand. This guy is supposed–supposed to being the key word–be this hard partying, R rated, boundary pushing asshole, but the…
Scream 4: Give Us Your Money Suckers
As you’ve no doubt figured out by now, this Monday Morning Movie Critic day is the garbage bin for movies I watched weeks ago but didn’t write up until now. And in that perpetual garbage bin, where would we be without a horror sequel no one wanted or was asking for. What Works: The opening…
Water For Elephants=Sleep for Humans
This move opened almost (gasp) three weeks ago and has pretty much died on impact ever since. However, I sat through it so I think a post-mortem is only fair. What It Does Right: There’s just something about the circus that brings out the inner magic in all of us (even if movies about the…
Entertainment Editorial: No Sympathy for the Devil, Have PG-13 Rated Horror Movies Become Scarier?
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…