Fall TV is back, and so is cramming in a lot of reviews for new shows and season premieres alike… Boardwalk Empire’s Season Three Premiere: It’s funny the way we like some characters and not others, isn’t it? Breaking Bad’s Walter White is my absolute favorite character on TV, and I acknowledge that he’s a…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Entertainment Editorial: 10 Fall Movies To Be Excited About (and Five Not to Be)
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…
September’s Book of the Month Club Selection Is…Amy Waldman’s The Submission!
Usually, whenever I start the month I have no clue what that month’s pick will be. I run down a list of books I’ve read in the last six months (or am currently reading) and narrow down to one I think is the strongest for that month. None of that is true for Amy Waldman’s…
TV Reviews: Totally Biased, Web Therapy, and Episodes
As we gear up for the new Fall season (which, to be honest, doesn’t seem like a particularly strong crop this year), let’s take a look at some “in-between” shows that clean up during the low competition months. Totally Biased…This is W. Kamau Bell’s new show on FX, and if you don’t know who that…
Movie Review: “Obama 2016″…When Campaign Attack Ads Pretend To Be Movies
Speaking of negative movie portrayals of interracial couples (as per my Hit and Run review), now we get a “documentary” about Obama’s doomed childhood, heavily influenced by his white mother and African father’s tumultuous marriage, and his father’s belief system. This “documentary” (and, from what I understand, documentaries are supposed to be non-fiction films) is made…
Movie Review: Hit and Run
This is a movie that not many have seen (it tanked at the box office) and probably not many have even heard of it either. It stars Dax Shepard as a former getaway driver for bank robberies (a great “movie job” that may not exist in real life as most bank robbers would do their…
Mom Jokes: Will You Live to See 80?
An old woman was exhaustively tested by her new doctor. He told the 70-year-old that she was “Doing well for her age.” A little concerned about that comment, she asked him “Do you think I’ll live to see 80?” He asked her “Do you smoke tobacco or marijuana? Drink beer, wine, or hard liquor?” “Oh…
Reviewing HBO’s Summer Documentaries Series…
For the last couple summers, HBO has featured a Monday night documentary series. They show a different doc every week, and I’m glad they do. Still, I think last year’s crop (that included the hilarious wannabe superheroes doc, the fascinating Afghanistan women’s prison doc Love Crimes in Kabul, and the excellent expose of our legal…
Entertainment Editorial: With Summer Over, How Did My Movie Predictions Turn Out?
Roughly four months back, I made a list of the ten movies I was most excited to see, the five I was most on the fence about, and, of course, the five I was least excited to see. Now that summer is officially over, and we’re getting into the best movie season (the Fall and…
Entertainment Editorial: How The Five Seasons of Breaking Bad Mirror the Five Stages of Dying
As every other Breaking Bad fan gets ready for tonight’s final episode (of this year…with the final eight ever playing next summer), I thought I might share an observation I’ve noticed about the five seasons. The main plot of the show: a mild-mannered, brilliant (and perpetually under appreciated) high school chemistry teacher gets cancer and…
Movie Review: Lawless…A Surprising Dud
One of the movies I was looking the most forward to this summer (and now that summer is officially over, I’ll probably repost that list later today) was “Lawless.” I thought “Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Shia Lebouf, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, and Guy Pearce working off a script from the guy who wrote The Proposition…
Movie Review: The Expendables 2
I may be a bit late in reviewing this film (which is representative of my enthusiasm for seeing it) since most of the people that are going to watch it have already forked over their money by now. Well, I’m sorry for you…I’d give you a refund but I’m also going to guess that the…
Mom Jokes: The Revenge of the Wives
We do a lot of marriage jokes in this section, and quite a few deal with men who have been…not so happily married for decades. Well, today’s it’s the wife’s turn… He said: I don’t know why you wear a bra, you’ve got nothing to put in it. She said: Why do you wear pants?…