In at least four months, no piece of "news" has bombarded my desk with the furious intensity of reports a few days ago that a trailer for Where the Wild Things Are had been released and was available on the internet. Everyone on Earth wanted to make sure that there was no chance I would miss out on the trailer, and more importantly, every report was delivered by someone simply giddy at the … [Read more...]
If you happened to contribute your dollars to the slightly under $10 million amassed by 1995's Cutthroat Island, you don’t have to wonder what went wrong with that movie. What went wrong, that is, that turned that movie into the biggest money loser of all time (It has since been surpassed, and resides at number five on the list). The swashbuckling, pirate adventure, once a mainstay of Hollywood, … [Read more...]
After a whopping three episodes aired, NBC has pulled the plug on the new cooking competition show The Chopping Block. It seems I barely put together an article on the thing, and though my reaction was rather middle-of-the-road, NBC needs a bit of a wake-up call. I didn't love the show, and though he may be a genius of the culinary world, Marco Pierre White just doesn't make for really … [Read more...]
In the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, Diablo Cody penned an article entitled, "Why I Love Rock of Love." She was apparently motivated, at least partially, because some of her Twitter followers were a little thrown by her mention of the show. It is without question one of the dumbest things to ever air on television, and it is probably not on the feminist must-watch list, so it … [Read more...]
On March 26th at 8pm, ABC is making the web-to-network jump with In the Motherhood, a show that started out as roughly six-minute episodes online. The original show was an odd sort of game, and existed in large part to see how many Suave and Sprint product placements we could really manage in such a short time. It was a show that followed three friends, and was only loosely held together by … [Read more...]
Back when Casino Royale was in production, the chatter was that we were reinventing the Bond franchise. We had our new Bond, we were going back to the earliest of titles, and we were going to reboot the whole Bond movie as a general notion. Most often bandied about was the idea that we were going back to something more true to the book. There are no gadgets in the book, and Bond is more … [Read more...]
HBO has been pushing the limits recently, and much of their effort has been in distancing their orignal programming from network television by way of becoming "that which could not be shown on network television." Now, the idea that cable networks put out content that couldn't make it to the normal airwaves isn't new, but HBO seems dedicated to kicking that up a few notches. Eastbound & … [Read more...]
I have to admit it. I like Gordon Ramsay. I like Simon on American Idol as well. Apart from the volume associated with their comments, and the bleeping, they're rather similar. Now, on Hell's Kitchen, Ramsay may at times go rather beyond the necessary level of screaming, but I can't help but be in favor of the general theory. Just to pick one example from last night's … [Read more...]
Welcome to ScreenTime! It's the final installment from the cast of Valley Peaks. This time around, we've got Philip Jessen, who plays Jake. Jake is the resident handyman of Valley Peaks, and this line from his bio sums up Valley Peaks to perfection. - But who Jake is and why he is so handy is an enigma that no one cares to notice. Thanks again to … [Read more...]
In honor of Natasha Richardson, an older review of one of her finer roles, in a grossly underappreciated film, Blow Dry. Indie-Brit (or perhaps, Indie-U.K.) is practically its own genre at this point. In recent years there have been a host of movies that, to one degree or another, feel like they belong together, and not just because of where they were filmed, or where they take … [Read more...]
Update! - Also check out my new post on EA Sports Active, and win your very own copy, contest ends June 1st, so don't miss out! On May 19th, EA Sports Active will be hitting the shelves, and the home fitness theory that launched with the Wii Fit may finally have a real champion. EA Sports Active's biggest plus may be the variety built into it. It comes with a special … [Read more...]
Better Off Ted is a new satirical comedy on ABC which premieres Wednesday March 18th at 8:30/7:30c. Ted works in R&D at a multinational company, and it's his job to actualize whatever crazy idea his boss, Veronica, can come up with. His company, Veridian Dynamics, is the ultimate in giant corporation gone wrong, and Ted has to balance his incredibly cool job against the not-so-stellar moral … [Read more...]
The person you see on screen most in Rachel Getting Married is Kym. Played by Anne Hathaway, Kym is Rachel's sister, and she's on a weekend pass from rehab so that she can attend Rachel's wedding. Because we are largely focused on Kym, a lot of people are going to start off talking about the film by pointing out a title/subject disconnect. That's a mistake (and a natural one, since Jonathan … [Read more...]
Dark City remains both brilliant and undiscovered... despite talk of Alex Proyas, or at least someone, making Dark City 2. If you have any sort of love of art (and everyone does in some way or other... don't they?), you will occasionally come across something that, quite simply, speaks to you. Something whose 'goodness' actually transcends its own 'goodness', and defies proper … [Read more...]
ABC is premiering Castle tonight (March 9 - 10/9 Central), and apparently we need have no fear of ever running short on crime-related television. In this happy-go-lucky version of all things dastardly, Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) is a freakishly popular mystery author who becomes wrapped up in an investigation. People are getting killed in tribute fashion, copying the murders of Castle's … [Read more...]
Confused?* Where was I? Either way, Teddy's going to get shot, and he knows it. Confused? Don’t be. The brief ‘action’ involved in the killing throws us right at the ‘beginning’, but in a way that uses all the things we don’t know yet. Why does ‘Teddy’ shout and turn just at the end, when it looks, right up to that point, that … [Read more...]
