Watch a Tom Cruise movie – be it from the present day or two decades ago – and you get the indefinable essence of a movie star. Be the film good, bad, or somewhere in between, there's Tom Cruise, shining… Read More ›
Month: December 2008
Getting Inspired by Top Gear
I spent many hours last night watching car shows. Okay, maybe one car show and one movie. We'll be talking about the movie, Days of Thunder, in an upcoming review. Let's talk about the car show instead. Now, here's how… Read More ›
The House Bunny Hops its way Right Past My Heart
The story of the ugly duckling that eventually becomes a beautiful swan is one that Hollywood tells over and over again with varying results. As such stories go, the recent Anna Faris comedy, The House Bunny, falls somewhere short of… Read More ›
The 3rd Annual National Forget Your Family, Love Your Television Day
I can't tell you my excitement. I am overjoyed, I am overwhelmed. I am astounded, I am flabbergasted. I am shocked and pleased. This truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Oh, not for the reason you think,… Read More ›
If Pushing Daisies Has Pushed its Last Daisy are we Satisfied?
Pushing Daisies may just have pushed its last daisy. As we've discussed, the show was incredibly popular with a small segment of the population but it now seems to be gone from our TV screens… possibly. You see, they filmed… Read More ›
Another Look at Leverage
Last week I wrote a review of TNT’s new drama, Leverage. It was, on the whole, a positive review, but I did note a few concerns. Chief among those was that the twists weren’t really twisty, they were all a… Read More ›
My Own Worst Enemy Goes Out with a Whimper
I'm seeing this as something like finale week. Heroes aired its final episode of “Volume Three” last night, My Own Worst Enemy put out its last episode, and Pushing Daisies is doing its finale on Wednesday night. While I imagine… Read More ›
Return to the Sea with The Little Mermaid II? Pass
Perhaps more than any other film studio, Disney has mastered the creation of sequels. Some go direct to video and some receive theatrical release, but the studio always seems to have yet another story to tell about some of their… Read More ›
Happy Days are Here Again – I’m NOT Dwight Schrute!
Today, I'd like to tell you a story, a true story. The day before Thanksgiving I was at Costco. In a woman's cart nearby I saw a Wii Fit. My wife (trust me it was all her) was desperate to… Read More ›
My Disappointment About the Impending Pushing Daisies Finale
Pushing Daisies' all too brief existence is drawing to a close, and as I watch these last few episodes I find myself distressed. That was too be expected, I've enjoyed the show, but the reason that I'm distressed is less… Read More ›
Jay Leno and NBC Have a Plan (But is it a Good One?)
I fully understand I'm a day behind the news cycle here, but then again, this isn't a news piece, it's an opinion one. On Monday it was rumored, and on Tuesday it was made official, NBC will be handing Jay… Read More ›
Top Gear Maintains Top Form
Last night Boston Legal finished its five-season (okay, four and a half season) run. The finale was touching, poignant, funny, and perfectly Boston Legal. It was a great way for the show to go out. But, I don't want to… Read More ›
Going After Lynette Scavo or her Family Just Doesn’t Seem Like a Good Plan…
It seems to me that of all the people on Wisteria Lane, the one you most don't want to mess with is Lynette Scavo, she will eat you (and your children) alive. Why then, I must ask, did Dave think… Read More ›
TNT Finds Some Leverage with Timothy Hutton
Watch enough television or go to enough movies and you get an affection for various actors, actresses, directors, etc. One of the actors I've come to really enjoy watching through the years is Timothy Hutton. Hutton originally came to prominence… Read More ›
Sweeney Todd May be the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, But Can He Sing?
Tim Burton is a visionary director. Looking at his body of work from the late 1980s through today, one gets a clear sense of his dark, humorous world view. Burton's films are filled with a sense of the fantastic, the… Read More ›
Maybe I Have This Whole Fringe/X-Files Thing Backwards…
Last night I sat down and watched the new X-Files movie, the one that was in theaters for all of a week this summer before quickly disappearing from everyone's radar. I was sorely disappointed, massively disappointed, hugely disappointed. I completely… Read More ›
A Heroes’ Non-Death – When Throat-Slitting Isn’t Enough
As I noted a few months ago in a discussion of the season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I have a problem when writers write themselves into situations that they can't get out of without having one of… Read More ›
Nitpicking on Wisteria Lane
I’m a nitpicky person, I know that. I can single-handedly suck the fun out of any TV show — all it takes is a stroke (or 20) on the keyboard. So, with that in mind, let’s look at last night’s… Read More ›
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