HBO has become the go-to destination for mini-series about Iraq. On the heels of this summer’s powerful Generation Kill, comes a four episode docudrama on the life and times of everybody’s favorite modern-day murderous dictator: Saddam Hussein. Debuting this past Sunday night, House of Saddam for the most part focuses on family dynamics inside the […]

This week’s Heroes review is guest clacked by frequent commenter Ivey West, more commonly known here as ‘Dorv’. Away from the internet, he’s lucky enough to run waterparks for a living. His job has him living in a hotel for three months, and he doesn’t know what’s harder: living in a small hotel room across […]

(Season 2, Episode 10 – “The Varabedian Condundrum”) Now, didn’t I say I don’t care for the character of Stephanie, Leonard’s love interest and the implausible medical doctor on The Big Bang Theory? Guess what? I still don’t like her. No, I’m not just jealous because she’s sleeping with Leonard and I’m not. I’m not […]

(Season 4, Episode 10 – “The Fight”) I know I was supposed to think this was the funniest episode in the history of How I Met Your Mother, but I am just not there. Maybe it’s because the topic wasn’t funny to me, or because the Robin joke got old, but it was just missing […]

(Season 2, Episode 12 – “Alpine Fields”) I want to take a minute to congratulate the writers of this show. They have managed to do something that very few shows can pull off. They have successfully created a program that has fairly self-contained episodes, but still manages to have an overarching story. This isn’t a […]

Vampires. You can’t walk down the street these days without stepping on one of them. They’re on television, in books and on the movie screen. Hell, one even moved down the street from me. Which, pardon the pun, sucks because he’s up all night, blasting Yanni tunes from his outside speakers. Hey, some of us living […]

(Season 13, Episode 11 – “You Look Like Peter Pan” – Season Finale) Most of this race, it’s been a contest between three teams. Dominating have been Nick & Starr, with Ken & Tina performing better early on and having to settle for nipping at Nick & Starr’s heels the rest of the way. The […]