Okay, it's official… the summer of 2012 is not what I thought it was going to be at all, and I'm enjoying the near complete sense of surprise, week after week, film after film. At the start of this week, ...
MTV's "Awkward" premiered last summer as a diamond-in-the-rough.
On every imaginable level, Lauren Iungerich's comedy was ragged around the edges and that was part of its charm. Early storylines wer...
Midway through the third episode of the new season of "Louie" — which was and continues to be one of the very best shows on television — Louis C.K. is introduced to a Spanish phrase that, loosely...
Big studios don't take many chances on small movies like "People Like Us." That's especially true in the midst of a typical summer season driven by superheroes, scientists in space and warrior princesses (bo...
Nora Ephron followed an unusual career trajectory in Hollywood, and the single greatest compliment I can pay to her on the occasion of her passing is that you can clearly identify what makes something a Nora Ephron mo...
There is one moment of pure visual magic in "The Amazing Spider-Man," perfectly staged and realized, and when the Stan Lee cameo is the best thing in your movie, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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If you had told me at the start of this summer that I would prefer both the Seth MacFarlane film and the Katy Perry film to "Prometheus," I would have laughed in your face.
Seth MacFarlane has become enor...
Talent and/or fame will get you second chances — and often third, fifth and ninth chances. Always and always and always. Whether in sports or entertainment, if your skill set is going to make the product bette...
A review of last night's "Bunheads" coming up just as soon as we talk about bunions and menopause...
"Bunheads" is still in world-building mode at this point, as Michelle gets a tour of the h...
On their last two albums— 2007’s “Minutes To Midnight” and 2010’s “A Thousand Suns”— the members of Linkin Park were feeling their oats a little, bucking the musical con...
