TV Madness 2012: A Look Back
TV Madness isn’t like the Presidential election. Your vote actually matters here. Two votes! The final battle came down to two measly votes.
‘Wilfred’ 2.01 Recap: “It’s Like I Don
Easily last summer’s strangest new TV show, ‘Wilfred’ returned to the FX network this past Thursday. As if just to mess with our minds, the network is not calling this a season premiere. No, it’s a “S...
Videogame Releases: Week of June 24th, 2012
In this week’s very international videogame selection, Stan Lee takes on New York, the CIA destroys Dubai, and Great Britain goes for the gold.
Blu-ray Highlights for June 26th, 2012 – Hush Your Mouth!
This week’s top new Blu-ray release is so good that it (almost) leaves me speechless. I’ll see if I can muster a few words about it (and the rest of the new Blu-ray slate) anyway.
Ode to a Sega Megalo
In the banner image above, the Sega Megalo 410 proudly displays several of its features, including Dynamic Sound and View. For a time, I was able to bring this mid-’90s arcade cabinet kicking and screaming into both my home ...
‘The Newsroom’ Pilot Recap: “What Did I Say Out
It has been nine years since Aaron Sorkin was ousted from creative duties on his hit TV show ‘The West Wing’, five years since the failure of his short-lived follow-up ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’, and o...
Weekend Box Office: Battle of the Family Flicks
Pixar has now made 13 feature-length animated films, and each has opened in the #1 spot at the box office. Actual attendance is down for the studio’s latest, but you wouldn’t know that if you didn’t take 3D ticke...
Poll: What Did You Think of ‘Brave’?
After the disappointment of ‘Cars 2‘, Pixar could really use an unqualified success to restore its reputation as the best animation studio working today. Unfortunately, this weekend’s release of the Scottish fair...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Vampire Movies
This week brings a new vampire movie to theaters that thankfully doesn’t have the word “Twilight” in the title. Even if it looks pretty goofy (and according to Luke is kind of terrible), that’s still a good...
TV Madness Final: Cameron vs. Bauer
We’re down to the final two combatants in this year’s TV Madness tournament. Terrorist killer extraordinaire Jack Bauer goes up against his toughest opponent yet: Cameron, a sexy cyborg from the future. Who will come o...
Weekend Movies: History, Fiction, and Historical Fiction
Not one of this weekend’s three major openers seems to be headed for major success. Weird genre movies rarely do huge numbers, princess movies are on the decline (though the Pixar brand might help), and a smaller romantic di...
Now Playing: A Romantic Dramedy of Epic Proportions
As I write this, I literally just got home from the screening of ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’, and I can’t stop thinking about it. The theater where this screening was held lies in the heart of Sal...