Agents of SHIELD jumps the shark in Season 2 – Agent Carter to blame?
Heading into its season two winter break, Agents of SHIELD had done seemingly the impossible: after spending most of its first season being consistently mediocre, the show shifted gears into something...
View ArticleSNL tonight: host Michael Keaton, Carly Rae Jepsen Saturday Night Live
SNL is all new tonight with an episode which brings back a familiar face as host. Michael Keaton, who is in the midst of a career renaissance, returns to handle hosting duties on Saturday Night Live....
View ArticleCarly Rae Jepsen SNL musical guest: Call Me Maybe singer returns
Carly Rae Jepsen is the musical guest on an all-new episode of Saturday Night Live tonight. If that name sounds familiar, it’s for good reason – she has one of the biggest hit songs on the decade....
View ArticleAvengers Age of Ultron, Black Widow, Joss Whedon and strong female leads
Some folks are upset with Joss Whedon because they say he made Black Widow into less of a strong female lead in Avengers Age of Ultron. I know such things can be subjective when presented through art,...
View ArticleTV shows kill off key characters in season finales, but to what end?
We’ve reached that time of year where TV shows approach their season finales and begin killing off recurring characters in the hopes of making things more compelling. I’m always left to wonder if that...
View ArticleTomorrowland movie review: George Clooney scowls and spoilers abound
This review of Tomorrowland is full of spoilers, so don’t keep reading it unless you’ve already seen it or you don’t plan to see it – and based on the mere six people in the theater on a Saturday...
View ArticleTaylor Swift v. Apple Music: why streaming services don’t work
Taylor Swift says she’s not including her songs in the new Apple Music streaming service, and in doing so, she’s naturally grabbing headlines. Very little of this, however, should come as a surprise....
View ArticleApple Music review: streaming service, Beats 1 Radio, iOS 8.4 update
After more than a decade of increasingly dominating the music industry through digital sales even as one competitor after another has plunged itself into debt by trying the streaming music subscription...
View ArticleMTV VMA Video Music Awards tonight: TV channel, time, Miley Cyrus host
The MTV VMA Awards take place tonight, with the annual Video Music Awards offering an opportunity for fans to watch a music awards show that’s strikingly different from the more traditional awards...
View ArticleWes Craven dead: RIP to the godfather of modern horror movies
In the summer of 1985 I lived in a small town in upstate New York (and still do) where the local dry cleaners was also the local video store. They didn’t have much interest in policing R-rated titles...
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