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• "Top Gear" – Why I still love it but don’t write of it often

  By Josh Lasser on January 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It struck me last night (and every other time I’ve watched the past few years), that I haven’t written about “Top Gear” lately. It is something that has perplexed me – the not writing about it, not the series itself… Read More ›

• "The Maze Runner" Finds a Successful Path

  By Josh Lasser on January 26, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Having an interesting premise (whether it is original or adapted from another medium) is obviously an important thing for a television series or movie, but what is done with that interesting premise is more important. I think that’s why some… Read More ›

• "Lass is More" Minisode 1: The Absurd Cost of Going to the Movies

  By Josh Lasser on January 23, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  As a part of the Lass is More podcast, from time to time we’re going to put out a minisode.  Rather than being interview based as with the main episodes, these minisodes, generally clocking in at under 10 minutes, are… Read More ›

• "The November Man" – Rebonding with Pierce Brosnan

  By Josh Lasser on January 21, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  I will freely admit to a deep love of James Bond, his life, his work, and his movies (fine, yes, I understand that he’s not real, but he’s real to me). The point is this, when I watch a movie… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – Movie Theater Etiquette Revisited

  By Josh Lasser on January 18, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Forgive me if this is something of a retread, there are things in this world which upset me to no end. I can’t imagine a better forum for discussing them when they relate to this blog’s overall theme (media). I… Read More ›

• The "Lass is More" podcast launches with the stars of "Helix"

  By Josh Lasser on January 16, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  http://traffic.libsyn.com/lassismore/Lass_is_More_Episode_1_-_Billy_Campbell_and_the_stars_of_Helix.mp3 UPDATE:  You can now subscribe to the show directly in iTunes by following this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lass-is-more-with-josh-lasser/id958811372 UPDATE 2:  Due to computer error, the entire original post for this has been lost.  It is a horribly embarrassing moment due, in… Read More ›

• Chatting with Academy Award nominees

  By Josh Lasser on January 15, 2015 • ( 6 )

  This morning, as you are undoubtedly aware, the Academy Award nominations were revealed. Over the course of 2014, I was lucky enough to speak to several of the folks who were nominated for awards today. I also spoke to others… Read More ›

• Michael Mann’s "Blackhat" offers substandard fare in a hacker trojan horse

  By Josh Lasser on January 14, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Hollywood hasn’t always done a great job portraying the high tech computer world, but when someone like Michael Mann steps in, the results could be exceptionally interesting. It isn’t that all of Mann’s films have been unequivocal successes, but they… Read More ›

• "Parenthood," some incoherent ramblings on the NBC series’ upcoming departure

  By Josh Lasser on January 9, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Over the past few years, “Parenthood” has enthralled and infuriated me. With the series coming to an end very shortly, I have been spending some time trying to figure it all out. Forgive the below’s format as something of a… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – The loud music blues

  By Josh Lasser on January 8, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Dear Good Media Manners, I can’t believe you haven’t tackled one of the great scourges of our society yet – people who listen to music so loud that it bleeds through their headphones so everyone around can hear it. I… Read More ›

• On Kevin Jonas’ "Celebrity Apprentice" mistake, the women being smart, and Geraldo being doomed

  By Josh Lasser on January 6, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  There are things in this world which I wish I understood better than I do. Regularly finding itself at the top of this list is the way other people’s minds work. I see the world through a certain lens, one… Read More ›

• Spoiler-filled thoughts on "Gone Girl" – what works, what doesn’t, and why I think it’s great

  By Josh Lasser on January 5, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  We live in a spoiler-phobic culture. And we do so with reasons that, I sometimes, can understand. The pros and cons of that are something we can talk about another day, but I tell you this because the below piece… Read More ›

• On being happy despite career ups and downs

  By Josh Lasser on December 31, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Earlier today, I ran a series of tweets about my life, my career, and my view of the world.  For simplicity’s sake, I have compiled them below. As with everyone else, 2014 was full of huge highs and big lows:… Read More ›

• Would I rather be a Balki or a Larry and why that’s an important question

  By Josh Lasser on December 29, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  I have had a lot of time to think lately, and over the weekend a question struck me – would I rather be Balki or Larry?  No matter how much I tried to dismiss it, I couldn’t shake the question… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – The evils of channel-flipping during the holidays

  By Josh Lasser on December 28, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Dear Good Media Manners, I have recently been spending the holidays with family and no one can ever decide what to watch on television. In the end, we end up flipping back and forth from one channel to the next… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – Scary Movie Strategies

  By Josh Lasser on December 24, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Dear Good Media Manners, The next few weeks find my children home from school due to the holidays and us finding ways to entertain them.  One of our favorite ways to do this is by watching holiday films with them… Read More ›

• "Into the Woods" Review: Sondheim musical gets middling adaptation

  By Josh Lasser on December 19, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Once upon a time, I saw the Broadway revival of “Into the Woods” featuring Vanessa Williams as the Witch.  While the James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical has never been my favorite bit of theater—nor my favorite Sondheim work—I felt an affection… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – Using speakerphone in public

  By Josh Lasser on December 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear Good Media Manners, I am hoping that you can settle a debate for me. I believe that a phone call is a phone call is a phone call. My boyfriend sees things differently. He doesn’t understand why, when I’m… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – Using a tablet in a restaurant

  By Josh Lasser on December 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear GMM, Recently we were away, and at one of the restaurants at the hotel—upscale but not five-star—was a family of four including two pre-teen boys. The boys were sitting there watching a football game on a tablet, with the… Read More ›

• Good Media Manners – Buying the seat next to you at the movies

  By Josh Lasser on December 11, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Recently, The New York Times published an Ethicist article wherein someone asked if it was okay at a movie theater that sells reserved seats to buy the spot next to you so that no one sits in it. While the… Read More ›

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