For the last four weeks, audiences worldwide have flocked to movie theaters in droves to see Gary Ross’ adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games.” This young adult novel, like “Twilight” and “Harry Potter” before it, is poised to spark a global phenomenon. What is…
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Do you like watching rookie cops on their first day on the job? Have shows like The Chicago Code, Rookie Blue and Southland not been enough for your fix of naïve police officers learning what the streets are really like? CBS’ new drama NYC 22…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
The times are changing over at the ABC Network. In the wake of a down housing market, Wisteria Lane has become oddly quiet. The Desperate Housewives friends are packing up their moving vans after eight seasons of mysteries and very attractive husbands. For some, this…
If you see a poster for Lifetime’s new series The Client List, you’ll probably expect it to be the erotic adventures of a high-class escort, similar to Showtime’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The advertisements for the show almost exclusively feature its star, Jennifer…
“The Patriot” was the first R-rated movie that I ever saw. I was blown away by the violence, the scope and, well, all the blood. That being said, it mattered so much less to me than a movie I saw a few weeks later. My…
Nicki Minaj has been the “it” girl of rap for about a year now, surprisingly by releasing so little of her own music. She’s had memorable guest spots all over the place, even appearing with the boys of The Lonely Island for the far too…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
Jason Segel’s career path is one of non-stop contradictions. Whether it’s playing the loveable but idiotic stoner in Freaks and Geeks and “Knocked Up,” to the affable break-up victim in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” or the quirky kid at heart in “The Muppets,” he’s always the…
One of the most fruitless endeavors in being a music fan is to try to follow buzz bands. Breaking on the blogosphere before slowly ending up in commercials, movie trailers and seeping into your subconscious, these groups roar onto the scene before fizzling out quickly,…