Playing Naomi on Lost was one thing; for Marsha Thomason, tougher than getting murdered in a jungle might be playing sports agent MJ on Make It or Break It … the participants are certainly more ruthless. Plus, who wants to square off with a teen-athlete’s parent, even a good one like Payson’s mom, Kim? It’s […]

I spent most of this past Saturday camped in front of the HDTV, ruining my right thumb by pressing the channel button on my DirecTV remote. It’s not an activity I partake in much anymore, so it was a nice departure from staring at my laptop screen, which is what I usually do on a […]

(Season 5, Episodes 9-11) One episode left of Six Feet Under. I’m saving a whole post for the finale because you all have hyped it up as the greatest finale in all of television history. My expectations are high, folks. There is some business to attend to before the finale, however. These episodes leading up […]

August in DVD-land is starting out much slower than July finished, but there are still some gems to be had as we enter the homestretch to the new fall season. Chief among those for me is Flight Of The Conchords. How can you not like Bret and Jemaine? They’ll be joined on the shelves by […]

(Season 3, Episodes 5-8) The background of these four episodes is the slow burning of affection between Xander and Willow. We know they’ve had feelings for one another since the beginning, but did the writers have to wait until both were in relationships that I actually enjoyed to go and screw it all up? They […]

Andy suckling Nancy, while seated on a toilet, went over the top and spilled into nothingness for me. No, I’m not a doomsayer, and I didn’t feel the downward pull of gravity tonight on Weeds, but some things are just a little too much. And then Shane got shot. It’s clearly nothing more than a flesh […]

Highlights of the Week This had to be a difficult film to put together. HBO’s Boy Interrupted is the story of a young boy’s struggle with bipolar disorder and depression, leading to his suicide at 15. His mother, the filmmaker, hopes to shed light on this difficult disease with painful honesty, to expose a very […]