So… will a struggling writer and blogger living in Culver City enjoy a show about a struggling writer and blogger living in Culver City? If that show is by the creative team behind My So-Called Life and The Last Samurai? If it features a lot of pretty-but-realistic smart girls? Are these rhetorical questions? quarterlife (sic) [...]
When I leave my apartment in the morning, I will be taking with me food, contracts, a bunch of gear–all the normal videomaking necessities. I also need to bring with me an 8-foot American flag and a twinkie.
I spent the weekend on a whole heck of a lot of production, and I’m writing this at 2 A.M. With that, and given that the Knight Rider movie is a backdoor pilot instead of a “new show,” I’m going to give myself permission to replace my normal, proper review with this bullet-point response. How [...]
The Hottie and the Nottie, a vehicle for Paris Hilton, performed horribly last weekend. On Friday they had less than a dozen people per screen for all the showings that entire day. This is proof she’s not a star. Perhaps we will see less of her. Barack Obama won everything and finally leads in delegates [...]
OK, I know this is an entertainment blog, and I shouldn’t be going on about politics. However, seeing as how–in addition to sweeping four states by wide margins, plus taking all the delegates in the U.S. Virgin Islands–he did just win a GRAMMY, I have an excuse.
So it took maybe one second to realize I was far from the target audience for Lipstick Jungle. We start with shots of women’s calves as their expensive high heels clack down New York sidewalks. A newscaster tells us that the sets of legs belong to a trio of the most powerful women in the [...]
…he writes something like this post to UnitedHollywood. Dear Writers, I have good news. I have lots of good news. In fact, I have way too much good news. The strike is almost over. A resolution is days away. Weeks. Friday. Valentine’s day. Two weeks exactly from whenever my manager/agent/lawyer told me. Yes, after talking [...]
So muppet geeks now have something to look forward to more than the Dark Crystal sequel. Empire Film Group acquired the rights to a script called Henson, telling the life story of the man himself. Could become one of my favorite movies ever… but the degree of difficulty is darn high. Never heard of Empire [...]
In my youth, I was patriotic. I remember the feeling. Whatever might have been America’s sins as a collective, I believed our balance scale still tipped toward greatness, that we had things figured out at least as well as any government on this planet so far, and that our future offered sincere promise for ever [...]
If there is any truth to these rumors, it would be the coolest news since Barack took Iowa.
Lost is a really good TV show. Not phenomenal (most of the time, anyway.) Just really good. A-minus. However, one thing we must give Lost is that it is groundbreakingly original in the way it has unfolded its mysterious, occasionally goofy, always compelling story. If you ask me, Lost was spiraling to its creative doom, [...]
You know when you go to a movie, and all the good parts are in the trailer? That was pretty much what it was like to watch the pilot of Eli Stone. A lawyer suspects he is a prophet because he starts to hallucinate, including continued appearances from George Michael singing “Faith.” They say Hollywood [...]
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