The best show on Television (right now) is back and all is right with the world. Some fans (and non-fans) may have seen the season 5 posters of TV’s most complicated lead character ever, Walter White, sitting in a lab with mountains of cash and meth around him, and the tagline “All hail the king.”…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Entertainment Editorial: The 15 Best “Breaking Bad” Episodes
Well, it’s that time again. Time to get ready for another season of the best show on television, AMC’s Breaking Bad. In order to prepare both the uninitiated and the die-hard fans alike for the new season, I thought I’d list what I consider to be the 15 best episodes of the series so far….
Movie Review: Brave
How well you like this movie really comes down to whether you’re a fan of old-Disney princesses (everything from Cinderella to Pocahontas) or Pixar (everything from Ratatouille to Wall-E). Because this is definitely the most traditionally Disney movie that Pixar has ever made. It takes a reliably Disney formula (slightly tradition-breaking princess + slightly different…
Entertainment Editorial: Why Steven Soderbergh is The Best Director Alive
Anytime someone is willing to declare anything “the best” rather than “one of the best,” they open themselves up to quite a bit of criticism. You can practically feel people racing to the comments section to tell you you’re full of shit (if people on this site used the comments section), but who really wants…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: “Magic Mike,” Better Than You Might Think
Will gay men and straight women (the movie’s key demographic) enjoy this movie? They should. But will straight men dragged to this movie by their girlfriends or wives (like myself) enjoy this movie? Actually, they just might. It all falls down to three important factors 1. There is nearly as much female nudity as male…
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
Has everybody in America seen this movie already? Probably…AND the story is old as dirt, so at least I don’t have to worry about spoilers…but I don’t have to worry about them anyway since there’s not really anything to spoil for a story so old. What Works: In two words: Charlize Theron. She takes the…
Mom Jokes: Too Little, Too Late
On his death bed, a husband found himself calling for his wife. “I have to confess something to you, honey, before it’s too late.” “It’s fine,” his wife said. “You don’t have to confess anything.” “No, I do. I screwed your sister, your cousin, your best friend, your best friend’s sister, their mother, your female…
TV Review: “Anger Management” and “Brand X” Are Another Step in the Wrong Direction For FX
So last night was the premiere of FX’s new comedy block, complete with new seasons of Louie (wildly regarded as the best comedy on TV, but I think is a little too inconsistent for that label), and Wilfred (widely regarded as one of the worst, and very consistent in that label), and the series premieres…
Entertainment Editorial: June’s Book of the Month Club Pick is…Gone Girl!
click on the book image to pick-up a copy [Buy this book from the link above] Ordinarily, for my book of the month club pick, I like to pick a lesser-known book that is deserving of your awareness but—-for whatever reason—-just never caught on in the way it should have. However, June’s Book of…
TV Reviews: Falling Skies, Futurama, and, of course, Dallas
So the Summer TV season is in full swing, and that means it’s the dominant season of cable, who have original shows more or less all to themselves while the broadcast nets show Big Brother ripoffs like ABC’s “Glass House.” So if you don’t like reality shows (and I sure as hell don’t) but want…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Rock of Ages
This is really two movies. There’s one movie that’s pretty good whenever Tom Cruise is onscreen. And there’s a second movie that is God-awful whenever he’s not onscreen. Unfortunately, he’s only onscreen for about one quarter of it. What Works: Again, Tom Cruise. Just as “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” was…
Movie Review: Seeking a Friend For the End of the World
Skip it. It kills me to say that, as this was one of the films I was looking the most forward to this summer, but it really is a disappointment. You’ll have an okay time if you do go, but pretty much all the jokes are in the trailers and nothing much wilder than that…
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson (that fussy man-child who made the terrific Rushmore 15 years ago and hasn’t left that world since with Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Limited, etc.) is a very specific kind-of filmmaker who draws a very specific kind of audience. By now, you either know if you’re a Wes Anderson fan or a hater. A person…