I’m going to try and be nice here, soft spoken, and not overly rude. It’s hard because what I have to discuss is just dreadfully bad, but I’m going to try anyway. Of the many shows I watched last night,… Read More ›
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Getting all Bloody Looking for a Diamond
WARNING: This review may contain some plot spoilers. Most simply stated, the film Blood Diamond, directed by Edward Zwick (thirtysomething, The Siege, The Last Samurai), is a look at the role of diamonds in Sierra Leone’s civil war. It takes… Read More ›
Talking Baseball, Baseball as a Mogul: Baseball Mogul 2008
Someone get on the horn to Joe Torre, the Yanks are good to go. I know, it’s awfully early to make that prediction, but I’m going to step out on a limb and say it. How can I be so… Read More ›
The Riches Takes a Turn for the Worse
Okay, here it is, in brief: have the producers of The Riches already run out of ideas? Cause, that’s the feeling I’m getting. I’m not going to say that the whole thing isn’t witty and funny, and smart, at least… Read More ›
Monday Night’s Polar Opposites
Monday television seems to bring out both some of the best good shows and worst good shows around (and a pox on you, NBC, for pulling The Black Donnellys earlier than initially announced — you keep doing stuff like that… Read More ›
Speaking the Truth About Desperate Housewives
It seems as though the truth hurts, and I just can’t figure out why that has to be the case. And this may hurt, but I have to say it anyway — last night, those Housewives proved once again that… Read More ›
On a Wing Island, Without A Prayer
I have grave concerns about the future of the Nintendo Wii. I absolutely love it, thus far, but there is a distinct lack of quality games available at this point. Game developers still seem to be so in love with… Read More ›
Television: Is it the Journey or the Destination?
I’m a contemplator. I’m sorry, it’s just who I am. This past weekend I was contemplating The Black Donnellys. You won’t believe this whole thing now, but it’s true, I was thinking to myself that I have so little free… Read More ›
Amazing Race: How Sweet the Sound
I tend not to write that much about reality television. I’m not quite sure why that is, but today that’ll change. At least it will for today, because we just have to talk about The Amazing Race: All Stars. I’ve… Read More ›
Amazon Unbox Throws a Movie into my TiVo Box (and I think I like it)
This past week I had my first opportunity to sample Amazon and TiVo’s newest service: Amazon Unbox. The concept behind it is pretty simple. Amazon offers a number of movies that can be either bought or rented from them which… Read More ›
Giving Lost The Benefit of the Doubt
I’ll be the first to admit it, my Battlestar Galactica review earlier in the week took a lot out of me. It was an emotionally draining experience. I don’t find it easy to come down against shows that I usually… Read More ›
Project: ALF Or, How To Fricasee a Cat in 10 Easy Lessons
For those of you that are unaware, ALF is an alien life form. Actually, not only is ALF an alien life form, but ALF stands for Alien Life Form, which is probably why he’s called ALF (except when he’s called… Read More ›
Battlestar Galactica’s Season Finale… What the Frak?!?
Let’s get something straight right off the bat, people: simply having a pretty good cliffhanger at the end of an episode, particularly a season finale, doesn’t make up for boring the audience for the previous 45 minutes. That’s right, today… Read More ›
Oh to be a Football Mogul
I love my fantasty sports. Not to a ridiculously insane degree, but I do. Let’s face it, people love their fantasy sports. They’re obsessed with it. As computing power grows, it seems that more and more of it is devoted… Read More ›
Get Me Maxwell Smart!
Many moons ago, I told how I had received a short screener, touting some of the elements of Time-Life’s upcoming Get Smart: The Complete Collection DVD. I said something along the lines of that if the DVD collection was as… Read More ›
Reigning in Raines’s Imagination
There I was last night watching Raines and wondering why. I’m just not sure I get it. Goldblum is good, but he’s playing, roughly, the guy he always plays. He’s sarcastic, sardonic, and generally an ass. My kind of guy. … Read More ›
My New Rule of Thumb: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
W.C. Fields is a legend, a classic, one of the father’s of film comedy. He is oft parodied, oft remembered, and much loved. Starting in Vaudeville and making his way to Hollywood early in its existence, Fields found success in… Read More ›
Lost is Rich, The Riches are Lost, and Battlestar Galactica Barely Is
I just watched Monday’s episode of The Riches and I’m still not sure how I feel about the show. Everything about it screams “this is good TV,” at least everything except for the way the story is unfolding. I’m sorry,… Read More ›
Monday Night TV: It’s All Lies
Let’s discuss lies, shall we. Working backwards, it was a huge issue on The Black Donnellys last night, in fact, it was such an issue that the episode was entitled “Lies.” I wonder though if they’re headed entirely too close… Read More ›
TV, Where We Are Now
As we approach the end of March, it seems to me like a wonderful time for taking stock, seeing where we are in the television world. There are only about two months left before the end of the season, and… Read More ›
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