The latest iteration of Sonic Solution's Roxio multimedia software, Easy Media Creator Suite 10 has more features than you can shake a stick at. It purportedly can do everything from burning a DVD of shows recorded on your TiVo, to… Read More ›
Month: October 2007
Chuck and Heroes Abuse My Trust (and Faith)
Is there anything worse on Heroes than the Hiro in the past storyline? I so hoped when they put him in the past as a cliffhanger at the end of season one that it was going to be good. I… Read More ›
Some Desperate Housewives Square off with Bob and Lee
I like Desperate Housewives, I know that I complain about it on a regular basis, and am going to do so below, but I do like the show. It’s funny and over the top, it’s just not as funny and… Read More ›
Nova Issues a "Marathon Challenge"
This week's episode of Nova takes something of a different tack than the usual episodes. Gone are stories of history, great discoveries, and cutting edge science. Instead, this week's episode focuses on running the Boston Marathon. Months before the event,… Read More ›
Lullaby, and Goodnight, a New Baby Einstein Takes Flight
With over two dozen DVDs on the market, the Baby Einstein brand has to keep pushing to find new and innovative topics. They have done just that with their latest release Baby Einstein – Lullaby Time. As the name implies,… Read More ›
It’s True That I’m Getting Older, But I Still Don’t Know How I Feel About a Little Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck is a show that constantly reinvents itself. Rather than following its name however and going for little tweaks here and there, the show routinely undergoes total and complete makeovers. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) are… Read More ›
Who Wants to Use the Potty? What if Pocket Snails Helped Out?
Trying to figure out how to get a toddler to go to the bathroom in a potty as opposed to using a diaper can be a daunting task. Potty training is an absolutely essential part of a child's growth and… Read More ›
Veronica Mars’s Final Season Comes to DVD… I Don’t Know Whether to be Happy or Sad
The third season of the cult television show Veronica Mars moved the private eye, played to perfection by Kristen Bell, from high school to college. Once one accepts the conceit present in so many shows that make this move that… Read More ›
How Did 30 Rock Get a Hold of My Life Story?
Okay, 30 Rock is getting just plain scary now. I have no idea how they figured out about my life and decided to mock it and me, but they did, they have, and I'm getting really nervous. I'm more than… Read More ›
Let’s Just Pretend This Was Published Thursday
For reasons various and sundry, while written on Thursday this didn’t get published till today. Please accept all “last night’s” as “Wednesday night’s” and any “tonight” as “last night.” Was I imagining things or last night on Bionic Woman did… Read More ›
Starz Sinks its Teeth Into Bloodsucking Cinema
Throughout the month of October the premium movie channel Starz has been airing their “Fear Fest.” As one can guess from its name, it mainly consists of horror movies. As one must remember, Halloween is at the end of the… Read More ›
Oh Tuesday Night Television, What am I Going to do With You
Reaper is about to disappear from my TiVo. I liked the first episode, I thought it funny and clever, and have been more and more and more disappointed with every episode that has followed. I think the series is trending… Read More ›
Oh Veronica Mars Girl, You’re one of my Heroes
Every week I find so much to like about How I Met Your Mother. They're always doing something different and wacky and just plain old awesome. Barney established the “Vicky Mendoza Line” last night with a graphical look at how… Read More ›
Bouncing Here and There and Everywhere, They are the Care Bears
Care Bears, the toy, television show, movie, cross-platform wonders from the 1980s are back. They have been completely re-imagined as CGI, and still have the unbounded optimism that was their hallmark twenty years ago. A new Care Bears DVD release,… Read More ›
Laughlin is Lost, but the Housewives are Found
I was going to spend plenty of time today talking about how I don't really “get” Viva Laughlin. I think that having the actual vocal tracks play so loudly along with people singing sounds terrible. Also, if I counted correctly,… Read More ›
Meet The Robinsons? Actually, We’ve Met.
Time travel stories are difficult to tell. When watching a movie that focuses on time travel, the audience is often quick to point out the multitude of story problems and paradoxes that ought to make the entire film unspool far… Read More ›
If Only Mrs. Pritchard Could Be President
The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard is, well, amazing. Focusing on politics in England, the show centers itself on the unlikely character of Ros Pritchard (Jane Horrocks). Ros, as the series opens, is the manager of a Greengages grocery store, but she… Read More ›
Kenny the Page and Jim & Pam and Earl
I find myself impressed by Jim and Pam. These two kids actually went out and helped Dwight Schrute last night. I find Dwight to usually be an irredeemable character and deservedly the butt of numerous jokes. Even so, feeling bad… Read More ›
How to Hoax Some Other Folks
I am constantly amazed by the words “based on a true story.” The words are awfully tricky. Movies that advertise those five little words walk a very thin line. The story that they tell needs to be mainly true to… Read More ›
Kitchen Nightmares Starts Visting Restaurants I’ve Eaten At
How nice was it to see that that Pushing Daisies continued last night to explore how Ned figured out the rules to his “gift.” I think they answered several of my questions from the first episode, including what dies when… Read More ›
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