Julianne Hough was recently seen dressed for Halloween as Crazy Eyes (pictured above) from Orange Is the New Black, complete with darkened skin. Because this country loves to manufacture outrage, the Internet was abuzz with how thoughtless and offensive her costume was, as if she went out wearing this and […]
I’d like to believe myself above the humor of Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew. They inflict ghastly bodily harm upon themselves and call it comedy, which, to those of us who fancy ourselves cerebral in our sense of humor, can’t help but come off as lowbrow. […]
George R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones, is missing out on a boatload of money by farming out the rights to his material to only one network. There should be countless permutations of the show: A Telemundo version in Spanish, an adorably censored Nickelodeon edition and an animated Cartoon […]
My Carrie review was going to be a beautiful, two-pronged assault, like the Nazi invasion of Poland or texting horrible things to your ex-girlfriend as you post the nude photos she shared with you in confidence on her Facebook wall: I was going to decry the making of another unnecessary […]
While it’s funnier to trash something (especially blindly), and good comedy should be nothing more than hate speech with pauses for laughter, I’m going to go against my better instincts and say the following: Don Jon could be a very good film. Is it because I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is […]
When did Robert De Niro quit? Because he did. There came a time, at some point, where he thought to himself, “I’ve given the world Jake LaMotta, Vito Corleone, Rupert Pupkin, Travis Bickle: Now it’s time to collect paychecks and bang sweet, black ass. Where is the script for Fockers […]
I was born in the 80s, the decade that invented quickie divorces. Meaning I had to attend the second (and third!) weddings of several of my delinquent friends’ mothers. This exposed me to some of the worst music of the decade because said moms were uniformly white trash with horrible […]
I’m in my early 30s. With regard to television and movies, I am a wealth of knowledge pertaining to nearly all programing aimed at my demo. Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead…if I haven’t seen it, I’ve at least heard of it. Somehow, though, music has passed me by. Completely. I […]
The Way, Way Back is a well executed–if by the numbers–coming-of-age dramedy (Christ that’s a lot of hyphens). It features all of the genre’s familiar tropes, like the youthful male protagonist whose initial behavior suggests borderline autism and the pretty but offbeat girl who takes a shine to him and […]