Last Thursday, ’80s filmmaking icon John Hughes suffered a fatal heart attack. He was only 59 years old. As far as teen comedies are concerned, Hughes ruled the genre from 1983-1990. He only directed eight films during his ephemeral career, but wrote close to forty screenplays. The list of movies bearing his signature is impressive: […]
Those of you who’ve learned how to play this game are still drunk, or in jail, from the weekend…. At 8:00, TNT offers up last week’s episode of The Closer, “Identity Theft.” USA has a familiar NCIS caper, while TBS decides to go with the (kinda) funny stylings of Family Guy. Over on ABC, it’s […]
Full disclosure: I was so bored last night, I had to fight to stay awake. Wow; just not a good episode. And for a season finale? I think the writers of In Plain Sight may have tried to dig a bit too deep with this season, what with the additional three episodes over last. I’m […]
(Season 3, Episodes 9-11) Still chugging along; if only more shows were as consistently inventive and entertaining as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. FOX recently said they intend to let creator Joss Whedon just be Joss in the new season of Dollhouse, rather than interfere like they did with Firefly. Maybe they went back and watched Buffy […]
(Season Two, Episode Eight) Over the course of the first half of the season, True Blood has slowly diverged into two separate stories: one based in Dallas, and one in Bon Temps. While everyone (including myself) has been talking about how well the show has been doing, tonight’s episode put a very fine point on […]
You know spies — bunch of bitchy little girls. And this week in the ratings post, our favorite spies were beaten by some little girls. It was very close though, if that makes the shot to the ego a little easier to take for Sam and Michael. Those two were the headlines for what was […]
Loathing seems to be much of the response of the interwebs after last week’s premiere. Now that I’ve had a week to listen to the opinions of, well, just about everyone, I’m still digging Defying Gravity. I get that I might be the only person out there that is, but I’m going to hold onto […]
