“Treme” Gets Its First Trailer

So, as usual, the job has been insane this month, and has kept me away from here for a week and a half.  But, upon seeing this spot, the first trailer for HBO’s upcoming series Treme,  I have come running back. My reaction?  Oh.  Hell.  Yes.  I can’t even put into words how stoked I [...]

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“The A-Team” Trailer

So I’m probably the very last person in the world to put this trailer up (it dropped last week, and was kind of a big deal), but I’m going to post the new trailer for the upcoming “A-Team” movie anyway.  Now, I never watched the show, and don’t really have even the slightest of nostalgic [...]

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Good News For People Who Like Good TV

Remember back when HBO seemed to have the market cornered when it came to great original programming?  Well, it looks like those days might be returning soon.   Already boasting three of televisions most exciting upcoming premieres in “Boardwalk Empire,” “Treme,” and “The Pacific,” the Home Box Office has shown that they’re not yet satisfied. [...]

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“Treme” Is Starting To Take Form

There’s a nice little feature over at Paste about David Simon’s upcoming show for HBO, Treme. The series, which recently started principal production, is centered around the lives of a group of musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans.  Now, Simon can pretty much do no wrong in my eyes, after absolutely knocking his last two series [...]

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I Think I’m Supposed To Hate “V”

ABC, in their ever-continuing quest to duplicate the success of Lost, debuted their new remake of the 1980′s sci-fi series V.  Now, the people who watched it seemed to have had two almost universal critiques of the show.  The first was that it was only so-so, not terrible television, but not great either. The second [...]

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Neil Patrick Harris Is the King of the World

Wow.  That’s just about the only word that I can use to describe New York Magazine‘s feature on actor Neil Patrick Harris. The article is a crazy, Dadaist, whirlwind of a read that focuses on Harris’ unique success as an openly gay male actor in Hollywood. Interestingly, the expansive nature of the article really mirror’s [...]

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Is Jon Stewart Somebody We Can All Love?

There’s been much said, both negative and positive, about the rise in Comedy Central’s two political personalities as people’s source of news.  Now, I’m not entirely sold on whether or not this is a good or bad thing for the future of political media, but I will say that I enjoy both Jon Stewart and [...]

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William Shatner Does a Pretty Good Sarah Palin

If this isn’t one of the funnier things you’ve seen today, then I just don’t know what to tell you.  Last night William Shatner went on Conan and performed a reading of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech– naturally, it’s pretty damn funny.  And it actually got my mind wandering on what it would be like if [...]

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Today’s Terrible Idea: Jeremy Garelick and “Baywatch”

BEGIN HEAD SCRATCHING NEWS & WEIRD RANT: Well, today was a big day in the world of completely redundant television turned into completely redundant movies.  Variety is reporting that Jeremy Garelick, who you probably don’t now (if you do it’s because he wrote “The Breakup”), has been tasked with rewriting and directing the big screen [...]

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Bret Easton Ellis, a “Fantastic Man”, and More Than a Little Wacky

I know that it seems like two out of every three times I post about authors, they seem to come from the same literary movement.  But is it my fault that there’s still a media soft-spot for Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney?  No, it’s not. Anyway, if you hop, skip, and jump with this [...]

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