Larry David, the absurdly nitpicky Jewish curmudgeon who can be seen on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and co-creator of Seinfeld, has an attitude that could easily be mistaken for Woody Allen’s. Though not the same man, and though they may… Read More ›
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Hulu Planning on Charging Subcription Fees?
Yesterday Chase Carey, News Corp.'s president and COO, stated that Hulu, the online video portal owned by News Corp., The Walt Disney Company, NBC Universe, and Providence Equity Partners, will start to charge users a subscription fee at some point… Read More ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Smash-up Arthritic at Best
Many a Saturday morning in my youth was spent watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I actually spent enough time watching those fearsome fighting teens to still, all these years later, be able to sing the theme song (turtle power!)…. Read More ›
The 2009-2010 TV Season and Me (Because you want to know)
Have I shied away from talking about the television season as of late? I haven't meant to, but have the feeling that I may have and consequently have spent a lot of time trying to figure out exactly why that… Read More ›
A sNeak pEek oF iCarly
Everything these days seems to be heading towards being interactive… even television. No longer do people just sit there and consume, they're sometimes able to actually influence what takes place on the screen (and in more ways than just pretending… Read More ›
Baseball Blast! Brings Bliss?
Baseball may be the national pastime, but anyone who is currently watching the MLB playoffs can tell you that it takes an awfully long time to play a game. There may have been a time when three hours was enough… Read More ›
When the TiVo Disappears, so does some Enthusiasm
Virtually everything I watch on television, I watch via my TiVo. Network schedules these days seem to be full of time changes, date alterations, and all manner of oddities, TiVo makes it easier to navigate such issues. However, TiVo also… Read More ›
White Collar Not Quite Criminally Good (But Close)
USA Network's ever-expanding lineup of original productions is getting ready to welcome a new set of characters. Starting on October 23 at 10pm, the series will be airing White Collar, the story of a white collar criminal, Neal Caffrey (Matt… Read More ›
More than Delicious, it’s Pinkalicious, The Musical!
Located at 45 Bleecker Street in New York City is the Bleecker Street Theatre. This small, 240-seat theater, is home for the next couple of months to a musical production aimed squarely at pre-teen girls, Pinkalicious, The Musical. Pinkalicious is… Read More ›
Hi Ho! Snow White Hits Blu-ray
There is a statue in the Magic Kingdom at Walt DisneyWorld, just short of Cinderella's Castle, which features Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Accompanying that statue is a plaque that reads “Never forget that it all started with a mouse.” While that is… Read More ›
Year One Something of a Zero
Harold Ramis is the director and/or writer behind some of the funniest films ever made. His credits include Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, and Ghostbusters amongst others. His latest movie, Year One, will do absolutely nothing to add to his reputation, rather,… Read More ›
Trying to be one of the Heroes Over Europe
The first few moments after picking up a controller and starting the first mission in Heroes Over Europe, the WWII fighter sequel to Heroes of the Pacific, are heady times indeed. One gets to kick up the throttle and can… Read More ›
Foyle’s War: From Dunkirk to VE Day – Five Sets Made One
[Editor's note: Individual reviews of set four and set five can be found here and here, respectively.] For Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle, the Second World War may now be over, but the reports of the show's demise have been… Read More ›
I’m a Go Play Lumberjacks and I’m Okay…
This may be hard to believe, but there’s now another title for the Nintendo Wii which is a series of mini-games. This time out they are, oddly enough, lumberjack themed games and are part of the ever-growing Go Play line… Read More ›
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa Comes Home to DVD
Some may argue that it's a little early for Christmas DVDs to be hitting store shelves. To them I say “Bah, humbug,” particularly if the DVD in question is last year's Muppets Christmas special, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. … Read More ›
The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (1986) Go Blu
[Editor's Note: Reviews of the most recent DVD releases of these two films, which include more of a review on the movies themselves, can be found here.] It was just over two years ago that both The Dark Crystal and… Read More ›
And Away We Go!
Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty), Away We Go (2009), is the hysterical and heartfelt story of a couple about to have their first child. Mendes is able to deftly mix serious storylines with lighter ones, and manages to create… Read More ›
Wallace & Gromit – The Wonder of Blu-ray
Sometimes when you watch something you know from the very first moment that what you're witnessing is brilliant and complex and simple and funny and marvelous and completely unbelievable and totally relatable at the same time. What your watching is,… Read More ›
Clue: The Office Edition, Now Available (that’s what she said)
Toby Flenderson, Dunder Mifflin's Scranton-based HR guru is dead. Or, at the very least Michael Scott would have that be the case. No one quite vexes Michael as much as Toby (something about Toby being a party-pooper). In a typically… Read More ›
Who Goo? Roogoo
The Nintendo Wii's unique control scheme and desire to inspire everyone from two to 200 to play on it has inspired its share of wacky, weird, and wonderful puzzlers and party games. One of the latest, Roogoo: Twisted Towers, is… Read More ›