The final season of How I Met Your Mother entered production last week. Barney and Robin’s wedding is happening, and the mother has been revealed. But alas, the show had to end, both practically and creatively – a lot of the flashforwards showed events that Read More …
Last night SyFy aired Sharknado, the most recent addition to the noble genre of Shark Horror, brought to you by the masters of C Movies pretending to be B Movies, The Asylum. It was gory, really stupid, and filled with bad acting, and also sharks. Read More …
“Kill me and you’re free, but if I live I’ll break both your hands.” – Game of Thrones S03E08 “You come at the king, you best not miss.” – The Wire S01E08 Feedback from my previous piece ranged from “interesting, and with limited typos!” to Read More …
Lucky you! I’m going to keep this week’s Venture review short. As Oscar Wilde would have said if he lived through the invention of Ecstasy, “you can’t call everything a transcendent work of storytelling genius unless your rent boy helped you steal a trash bag Read More …
“The way I feel about TV on Sunday is the way I used to feel about movies on Friday. TV is better than movies now. Accept it and drive on.” –Patton Oswalt The American version of “The Office” ran nine seasons. In just 4 years, Read More …
The Venture Bros. is The Wire of Action/Adventure cartoons. I know I make a lot of boasts that Blank is the Blank of Blank, but editorial hasn’t stopped me yet. [He’s still writing these? Put Robinson on it, half the cost and a quarter of Read More …
Well, that was a harrowing ten hours, was it not? What more is there to say, really? Tyrion’s still the fan favorite, Joffrey’s still a dickwheel, and yes, we know that the Red Wedding made you cry a gnashing Narrow Sea’s worth of tears. So Read More …
Okay, so I know I always start these things with some message about what I think is important in storytelling and whatever and junk, but this week’s The Venture Bros. was a great short study in how to write a screenplay AND it was funny Read More …
Last sunday, another outstanding season of HBO’s Game of Thrones came to an end. This season had everything: Chilling plot twists! Doomed romance! Blood-spurting murders! Sinister revenge! Hodor! There are plenty of great things you can say about Game of Thrones; that it has beautifully Read More …
Hannibal has ruined cooking shows for me. Actually, ruined might be the wrong word. What the show has done is change my perspective on cooking programs. I used to like to zone out to shows with close-ups of a perfectly grilled steak, beautiful lamb curry, Read More …