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If you go into ‘Friends with Kids’ expecting to see a comedy in the vein of ‘Bridesmaids‘ (which is what the ads make it out to be), you’ll probably be disappointed. ‘Friends with Kids’ is...
If you go into ‘Friends with Kids’ expecting to see a comedy in the vein of ‘Bridesmaids‘ (which is what the ads make it out to be), you’ll probably be disappointed. ‘Friends with Kids’ is...
This weekend may be one of the most uneventful of the summer. A crude R-rated chick comedy opens against a dystopic, post-apocalyptic 3D vampire western. Considering that one limits its audience with its rating and the other is a ...
When Conan O’Brien was fired from his gig on ‘The Tonight Show’ and replaced by the show’s former host, Jay Leno, it sent ripples of shock and outrage throughout the media and general populace. There was a ...
‘Mad Men’ Season 4, it was nice knowing you. Was it nice? I’ll say yes! Despite some rough patches and an uneven end-of-the-season road which led to the highly debatable finale (I’ll go into that shortly), ...
Remember the snappy season finale of ‘Mad Men’ last year – the episode where the gang started a brand new agency and everything had a certain feeling of hopeful effervescence? After this week’s episode, in which ...
Yes, I know that I’m a week behind in recapping ‘Mad Men.’ Between covering the New York Film Festival and drinking until I black out, time does slip away from me. But that’s an apt metaphor for last week...
As I’ve stated, time and time again, the women of ‘Mad Men’ are way more interesting than the titular bad boys. As great as last week’s introspective Don episode was, we got a lot more time with the women t...
Ben Affleck’s Boston-set crime drama ‘The Town’ took the top spot at the weekend box office with a cool $23.6 million. For a movie about bank robbers (which, no, I still haven’t seen yet), it carried off a ...
This weekend serves up a veritable Pu-Pu platter of cinematic tastes. It has everything from heist thrillers to high concept horror to questionable documentary to teen sex comedy – and, probably, everything in-between. I havenR...
This season on ‘Mad Men,’ we’ve been getting all sorts of insight into Don Draper – Don Draper the divorced bachelor, Don Draper the sloppy drunk, Don Draper the doting father… and all points (some of them ...
This week’s episode of ‘Mad Men’ – which many are proclaiming to be, in the words of Comic Book Guy, the “Best. Episode. Ever.” – is a delayed gratification hour of television whose brilliance doesn...
One of the most interesting things about ‘Mad Men,’ right from the very beginning, has been the way that – even though the show dwells in the world of good ol’ boys, clueless gents and back-slapping fraternizing ...