‘10 Things I Hate About You’ saves the summer season (TV review)
I don’t think I’ve seen the Julia Stiles-Heath Ledger movie of the same name, or if I did, it made no impression on me. So I don’t know what the title means, but I do […]
Teen Drama
‘Make It or Break It’: Skip it (TV review)
For two weeks once every four years, gymnastics is the most popular sport in America. Like everyone else, I was drawn into the drama of whether Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin and the Americans would bring […]
State of Television Address, Part 3: ‘Glee’ provides a ray of hope for the fall (TV review)
This is the post where I’m supposed list the new fall shows I’m looking forward to, but after watching clips of the five networks’ 28 newcomers over at Zap2It (scroll down the list to find the pages […]
‘Beverly Hills,’ that’s where I want to be. (But the new ‘90210?’ Not so much) (TV review)
The CW seems to think that giving its shows the names of hit shows from the past is a way to build a network. It renewed “90210” — a show that has notoriously struggled to find an […]
5 cute little movies I want to see this summer (Commentary)
The big movies get the buzz; the little movies get the love. My previous blog entry was movies that you’ll see with a group of 10 friends; this list is movies that you’ll see by […]
Happy (day after) Mother’s Day from ‘Gossip Girl’: Brittany Snow returns to TV (Commentary)
It’s appropriate that Brittany Snow spells her name the normal way, rather than “Britney,” “Brittani” or “Britni.” The actress strikes me as an old-fashioned girl, because I first saw her as Meg Pryor in the […]