I have never been a fan of Fred Armisen, of Saturday Night Live and Portlandia fame. Appearance-wise he’s ethnically vague enough that he can play Barack Obama one moment, and a white person the next. The problem is that I don’t find him particularly funny. That is, till I saw this video, courtesy of the […]
ITunes has Pan Am, Season one, for free. It’s not quite my cup of tea, but if anyone happens to be a fan, this is the time to pick it up because I have no idea how long this deal will last. All you need is iTunes, and an iTunes account.
Vulture has prepared a list of the Ten Best and Worst Movie Posters of the Year, and while most of their choices are good ones, particularly “Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene,” I think that they missed one, which was understandable because if isn’t for a movie, but a television series on the FX Network. It lasted […]
Tom Fontana, creator of television shows like “Homicide” and “Oz” is coming back to television with “The Box,” a police procedural with a difference: It revolves around an interrogation room of a police station. This is a very cool idea, though I think that Fontana could make a television show about the telephone book and […]
Netflix, looking to differentiate themselves from Amazon and Hulu, have begun to develop original series, with an unspoken benefit of a (mild) lessening of the hold that content providers (such as Starz which is pulling their content from the network in 2012) currently have. The development of original series is a smart move for the […]
Before I begin, let me establish a few things: The ‘Frank’ in question is Frank Darabont, someone who I not only have never met, but whom has no idea that I exist (nor should he, unless he has an unquenchable desire to learn about IT from the perspective of someone who works in a Washington, […]
Whenever I write, “I really like whatever, but…” you can be assured that I am going to dispense a little tough love. This time is no different because I just learned that Jenji Kohan’s “Weeds,” the Showtime series about the Botwin family and their adventures, which generally revolve around either selling or consuming marihuana, has […]
Nothing in the way of spoilers, so read with confidence I have been watching the second season of “The Walking Dead,” and beside certain odd beats (Why was the smell of the dead on the highway a non-issue, while a rotting corpse in a tent makes everyone gag? These are some of the same people […]
Frank Castle, when his family is gunned down by mobsters, declares an all-out war on crime as The Punisher. As a comic character, his popularity at times has approached that of DC Comics’ Batman, though he never successfully made the leap to feature films. First Dolph Lundgren tackled the character, and while physically his portrayal […]
The Coen Brothers, makers of “True Grit,” “Fargo,” “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “Raising Arizona, “Miller’s Crossing,” among others, will be producing an hour-long comedy series at Fox, the news of which confuses me a tad. It will their first foray into television, though I am not sure that TV is big enough to contain their unique […]
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