There are times when someone sits down to watch a film and after 90 minutes realize that they've been sitting there in stunned silence the entire time. Did they like it? Maybe, maybe not. Was it a good movie? Well,… Read More ›
Month: June 2009
The Triumphant Return of Nova scienceNOW
Traditionally speaking, television in the summer is filled with reality shows, burn-offs of series that failed, and lots and lots of repeats. Cable has slowly started to change the game, launching lots of original scripted series over the summer. However,… Read More ›
Doctor Who and "The Next Doctor"
There are certain moments in television, certain episodes, to which I greatly look forward. Yes, season premieres and finales are most certainly among them, “special” episodes for sweeps tend not to be. On my favorite long-running series though I hugely… Read More ›
Steven Spielberg and Noah Wyle to Fight Aliens for TNT
News comes to us from TNT today that Noah Wyle has signed on to a pilot with them. In the as-yet-unnamed series Wyle is set to play the leader of a group trying to resist an alien invasion of Earth…. Read More ›
Getting Into Striking Distance
I hesitate to instantly, right out of the gate, damn a movie with faint praise, but the recently released to Blu-ray Bruce Willis action flick Striking Distance… isn't bad. At least, in hindsight it isn't. Oh sure, the movie wasn't… Read More ›
Promoting Watchdog Television
On last night's episode of Screen Time, Erin Medley and I discussed – in a terribly joking fashion – the notion that some sort of new version of Fight Back! with David Horowitz ought to exist (the Fight Back! website… Read More ›
Sure, There’s No Way Back, but you Wouldn’t Want to go There in the First Place
It is essentially a rule of Hollywood — become a big enough star and all your early work (the stuff from before you were a global superstar), no matter how bad, will get released to every new medium. While there… Read More ›
There is no Reason to try Cracking The Code
It would be very easy to sit back, call the new Blu-ray release The Code a bad movie, and wash one's hands of the entire affair. It would take little skill or effort to state as much, and undeniably, one… Read More ›
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Takes off on Blu-ray
Not every comedy is a mindless series of fart and boob jokes. That type of fare unquestionably has its place in the pantheon of filmmaking genres, but a comedy can certainly also provide a deep, hard-thinking, sobering look at our… Read More ›
Nothing Addictive About Confessions of a Shopaholic
Both as a society and as individuals, we seem to increasingly find ourselves addicted to things. Whether it's an incredibly enthusiastic obsession with television, a compulsion to check one's fantasy baseball team on an hourly basis, or a shopping fixation,… Read More ›
Obsessed with TV? Who, Me?
As many of the columns I've written would indicate, I'm moderately obsessed with television. Oh no, not in a “Hi, my name is Josh and I'm a TV-aholic” sort of way, much more in a “I don't have a problem… Read More ›
The Greatest Game Ever Played Makes for a Pretty Great Movie Too
A few years ago, it was suggested to me that I sit down a and watch The Greatest Game Ever Played. I was told that not only was it well-directed, but that it told an interesting — and true —… Read More ›
Taking a Trip on Air Force One
Whether flying through hyperspace, cracking whips, or just desperately trying to remember who he is, Harrison Ford has created a plethora of memorable characters in truly outstanding films over the course of his Hollywood career. In 1997, Ford got the… Read More ›
Glory not Glorious on Blu-ray
With 1989's Glory, director Edward Zwick, working with a screenplay by Kevin Jarre (which was based on two different books) and the letters of a Civil War colonel, created an incredibly memorable look at the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts. The… Read More ›
TNT Gets Ready for Summer with more Original Programming
This summer TNT will once again be airing new episodes of multiple original series. Their slate is a combination of new shows and returning ones. Even better than that though, most of the series are good fun to watch. Their… Read More ›
Bruce Campbell on Burn Notice
On June 4, USA's Burn Notice will begin its third season. The premiere episode is a straight continuation of the second season finale, picking up with burned spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) swimming the Atlantic after getting dropped out of… Read More ›
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Church Complete – Beautiful and yet Utterly Confusing
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete is at the same time blindingly brilliant and horrendously dull. The computer animated spectacle — and make no mistake, it is a spectacle — takes place two years after the events that occurred in… Read More ›
Conan Premieres on The Tonight Show
After numerous years of Jay Leno, whose departure from The Tonight Show has been well chronicled, as will his new NBC primetime program, last night marked the first Tonight Show of a new era. Tonight, The Tonight Show with Conan… Read More ›
I Guess, Hypothetically, It Could Happen to You
Currently running before many a film in theaters is a series of ads reminding people to not talk on the phone (or text) during a film. Of course, the ads don't start out there, they start out by showing the… Read More ›
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