Now most of you must be sitting there thinking I’m obsessed with this show (having just reviewed the first half of the 5th season a month back) and really I’m not…at all. In fact, I think the show’s best days are long behind it (see the chart below this article for a ranking of their…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Big Love, Ranking the Seasons
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…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Take Me Home Tonight Makes the 80’s Look More Fun Than They Really Were
Nostalgia. One word that could describe half the movies we see in theaters. Whether it’s obvious nostalgia like a period piece set in a time we might barely remember or a film set currently that tries to make us remember when we were younger (anything from Toy Story 3 to Superbad would qualify). But is…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: I Am Number Four…I Am Dumping It Here
Do I know that I Am Number Four has been out for a month? Yes. Do I know that nobody really cared much about it five minutes after they saw it—if they ever did—and that if there was ever a time to review it, the first weekend would have been the time? Yes. However, I…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Unknown Disappears Before My Eyes
Unknown is another review I just want to dump somewhere mostly because it’s even worse than I Am Number Four in the unoriginal department and the film largely evaporated before my eyes as I was watching it. There is one decent twist towards the end that is pretty interesting…but then the movie promptly goes back…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Adjustment Bureau, Best Movie of 2011…So Far
So there I was ready to slam this movie. I already had the headline (Adjustment Bureau…adjust your expectations), but then it surprised me by being good almost from the first five minutes. Then it surprised me by being really good. Now saying this movie is the best I’ve seen this year is a bit of…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Rango Finds the Beauty in Ugly
I don’t know what’s in the water this week but just like I enjoyed The Adjustment Bureau I also found Rango to be better than almost any film I had seen this year. This strange, beautiful film showed me something I didn’t even know was allowed in kid’s films anymore: ugliness. Not bad ugliness, but…
TV Review: Justified Saves Wednesday Nights
Depending on who you are different nights of the week will be considered good for TV. For me Tuesday night—which has a week high of six shows I watch from so-so programmers like V and No Ordinary Family to quietly excellent shows like Parenthood, The Good Wife, Southland, and Lights Out—is the best night of…
Entertainment Editorial: Should We Give The Farrelly Brothers a Permanent Pass?
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…
Mom Jokes: Resending the Best Joke My Mom Sent to Me Last Week
A Wish To Live Forever I met a fairy today that said she would grant me one wish. “I want to live forever,” I said. “Sorry,” said the fairy, “I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that!” “Fine,” I said, “then I want to die after Wisconsin’s Congress gets their heads out of their asses!” “You…
Gnomeo and Juliet, a Whole Different Kind of Survivor Story
[It might be in its 3rd week of release, but since this sucker just topped the box office, it’s gained a new relevance] If Sanctum is about survival under almost impossible odds then surely Gnomeo and Juliet is for myself. I survived one of the most bizarre children’s films in history while in a theater…
Sanctum, When Australia Tries to do it Big American Style, and Makes all the Same Mistakes
[I waited four weeks to put up this review because there are spoilers, and I figure after a month no one will care…if they ever did] The new movie Sanctum is about a team of Australian cave divers who get trapped in a cave during a monsoon and get picked off one by one by various…
Entertainment Editorial: If I See Anymore 3D Movies, I’m Going to Hang Myself in 4D
Alright so that headline doesn’t exactly make sense, but what does make sense to studio executives is that 3D movie tickets cost more, so they release as many 3D movies as possible. About a decade ago, the closest you got to a 3D movie is the god-awful Spy Kids 3D which asked you to wear…