I have no idea if I liked this movie, didn’t like it, whether it worked or not, if I should leave thinking sex addiction is awful or just a mild bump in the light-comedy road. I really am not sure how I feel about this film and I think that speaks to the mixed-blessings it…
Movie Review: Riddick
Calling this a disappointment would be misleading since I never suspected this film would be good. What Works: The film keeps morphing from a survival tale on an alien world (in the first 15 to 20 minutes) to a bounty-hunters-after-Riddick neo-Western to a monsters-attack-Aliens-knock-off. I’ll let you guess which two of those three works best….
Movie Review: The World’s End
There will be some more current reviews later today, but I had put off reviewing this lackluster comedy for weeks and decided to dive into it now… What Works: I wish I could say the idea of an end-of-the-world comedy is inspired but this is the fourth end-of-the-world comedy in only the summer (It’s a Disaster, Rapture-palooza, and the…
Reviewing The Series Finale of “Dexter” #Dexter
Earlier today I wrote a fairly long article grading the seasons of Dexter. Now let’s look exclusively at the series finale with a recap/review. [Spoilers ahead.] What Happened: The episode started with Deborah seemingly fine after a shot to the shoulder from the season’s “Big Bad,” the Brain Surgeon a.k.a. Dr. Vogel’s son a.k.a….
Grading the Seasons of “Dexter”
Tonight, (while some people will be watching the Emmys) Showtime will say goodbye to their highest rated series of all time: Dexter. While I’ll grade the series finale later tonight, it’s time to look back at the show’s legacy, and which seasons worked better than others…[Obvious spoilers for all but this season.] Season 1…What…
Bubba Can’t Bring a Gun in Starbucks Anymore? What is This, France?
Just earlier this week I was buying my 14th semi-automatic rifle (you know, in case a burglar breaks into my worthless trailer to steal all my other guns, by far the most valuable thing there…and I grow 12 more hands to fire 14 guns at him simultaneously) when I discovered some truly horrific news: Starbucks…
Mom Jokes: The Alphabet Wife
After being married for thirty years, a wife asked her husband to describe her. He looked at her for a while, then said, “You’re an alphabet wife ….. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.” She asks … “What the hell does that mean?” He said,”Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Fabulous,…
“Million Second Quiz” A Battle Between the One Percent
What started out as a strong gameshow (I originally gave the show an A- in my initial review) filled with pressure cooker tension and timed bouts, eventually became rather monotonous. It didn’t help that the same people were on Winner’s Row for practically the entire televised run, and that we didn’t have many people to…
Petty Issues: “Wheel” of Misfortune, Fairweather Mayweather, Dropout Jaden, Alaska Bucks
Floyd Mayweather won another fight in a decision against a handpicked opponent most people have never heard of, and now the big question turns to who he’ll fight next. My guess? His toughest opponent yet: a new form of Gonorrhea. Wheel of Fortune recently denied a man a chance at a million dollars because he…
TV Reviews: “Key and Peele” Kick Off Their Third Season
You know I’m running out of things to talk about when I’m reviewing the third season premiere of a Comedy Central sketch show. What’s next…grading cat videos on YouTube? However, it helps that Key and Peele are consistently hilarious, and have competition only from Inside Amy Schumer in the “Best Sketch Show” on TV sweepstakes….
TV Reviews: Dads, Brooklyn 99, New Girl, Mindy Project
Fox debuted their new Tuesday night comedy lineup, and it looks like I’ll be tuning into an hour of it, while actively avoiding the other hour… Dads…One of the worst pilots in recent memory. Not only did I not laugh one time, but the entire enterprise has a generally cruddy, slapshot quality to it…
TV Reviews: “Sleepy Hollow” Begins and “Under the Dome” Ends
Sleepy Hollow…I actually liked the beginning to this (admittedly) preposterous show. It deals with Ichabod Crane falling asleep as a Revolutionary War Hero and being woken up in 2013 Sleepy Hollow while trying to outfox the Headless Horseman (actually one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) who’s started dropping headless bodies all over…
The Odds on the New Fall Shows
Another Fall season is here, and the broadcast networks are unveiling their best and brightest, but I’m not really thrilled with most of the new shows coming out. The question will be whether or not audiences are, and which ones will make it a full season, and which ones will be renewed for a season…