Struggling fourth-place network NBC has made a bold, perhaps even reckless decision regarding the upcoming fall TV schedule. The network is going to try to make money by programming shows that people might actually want to watch, ...
Doom-and-gloom naysayers have been acting up again recently with predictions about the impending death of Blu-ray and physical media in favor of a future where all home video distribution will be handled by digital streaming. The ...
There’s a peculiar theme at work in this week’s Blu-ray releases. In separate movies, both Liam Neeson and Matt Damon find their whole lives taken away from them by mysterious forces. Neeson wakes up from a car acciden...
After a lackluster season premiere that left me doubting why I even continue to watch the show, ‘Covert Affairs’ followed up last week with a pretty decent episode that has, for the time being at least, gotten me back ...
The first season finale for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ aired last night. I’ll have a recap for that up later in the week. (I’m writing this post before the episode aired.) In the meantime, I’ve bee...
We all know the phrase by now, and have undoubtedly watched it happen. “Jumping the shark” is that defining moment where a previously good TV show makes a turn for the worse and never recovers – so named for the scene ...
It seems that another web site which shall remain nameless is advertising an “Exclusive Giveway” of Blu-ray copies of ‘The Adjustment Bureau’. Someone might want to explain the meaning of the word “ex...
Holy crap. Let me repeat that to let it sink in: Ho-lee Crap. As if the titular game of thrones in ‘Game of Thrones’ didn’t already have enormously high stakes (what with numerous factions vying for control of an...
Two years ago, in a controversial attempt to broaden the appeal of the Oscars ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanded the field for the Best Picture race from the traditional five nominees to ten. Well, ...
Recently, the Hasbro toy company decided to celebrate its decision to pay Michael Bay to make those awful ‘Transformers’ movies by inducting Bay into a sham awards show called the Transformers Hall of Fame. What a coin...
We established in last week’s poll that most of our readers think that Stephen Sommers is a worse director than Michael Bay. Not to turn this into another Movie Madness tournament or anything, but let’s take this to th...
I don’t know how many (if any) of our readers here care about the Tony Awards. The Tonys (and Broadway in general) are not something that I generally give much thought. However, I felt it worth reporting that ‘South Pa...
