‘Office’ vs. ‘Always Sunny’: What’s TV’s best sitcom? (Commentary)
Which sitcom would you take with you to a desert island: “The Office” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on NBC) or “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (9 p.m. Central Thursdays on FX)?
Oh, how I love/hate ‘(500) Days of Summer’ (Movie review)
“(500) Days of Summer,” the would-be-romantic, too-sad-to-be-a-comedy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, starts with a narrated warning that this is not a love story. It’s not so we’ll smirk and say, “Isn’t that cute — […]
How crucial is continuity in franchise storytelling? (Commentary)
I’m curious to hear from my readers on this one: How important is it to you that a franchise has continuity between each of its installments? I ask this because two of my favorite sagas […]
Get even better, ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ does (TV review)
Watching “The Clone Wars” (7 p.m. Central Fridays on Cartoon Network), I wonder if the “Star Wars” prequels should’ve been animated all along. “Clone Wars” feels more like “Star Wars” than the live-action movies do. You would […]
I don’t have a favorite actor (If I had one, I guess it’d be Michael Cera) (Movie and TV commentary)
The other day someone asked me who my favorite actor is and I found out something interesting about myself: I don’t have one. Despite being a “movie guy” and a “TV guy,” I don’t have […]
Why do so many previews give away the whole movie? (Commentary)
Entertainment Weekly wondered why “Jennifer’s Body” had low box office returns, and suggested that people had their fill of the real Megan Fox through the media and didn’t need to see her in a movie. It’s always […]
‘Cleveland Show’ rocks, ‘Community’ doesn’t, and ‘Modern Family’ is nothing new (TV reviews)
There’s a nice scene in the pilot episode of “The Cleveland Show” (7:30 p.m. Central Sundays on Fox) where Peter, Quagmire, Joe and the “Family Guy” gang gather around to say goodbye to spinoff-bound Cleveland Brown. Peter […]
On TV, Friday is the new Tuesday. How did this happen? (Commentary)
It used to be that the best shows were front-loaded toward the start of the week. I fondly recall “Buffy” nights from my college years when my friends would come over on Tuesdays for pizza, […]
Find out how Megan Fox stays looking good in ‘Jennifer’s Body’ (Spoiler alert: She eats people) (Movie review)
“Jennifer’s Body” is a cynical, heavy handed and occasionally scary follow-up to “Juno” from screenwriter Diablo Cody. In interviews, Cody said she wanted flip the horror standard and have a girl be the villain and the guys the […]
Dawn. Xander. Kissage. (Comic book commentary)
Even when it seems “Buffy” is doing something for laughs, it might actually have a subtext behind it. For example, when Willow’s doppelganger vampire was humorously gay in a third-season episode; it seemed like an off-the-wall funny […]