Tuned InTelevision
Since having the best comedy pilot of the fall season, New Girl has been one of those shows that I’ve liked… but. But Jess was irritating. But the show was too forcefully trying to make us love Zooey Deschanel’s naif cuteness. …
The movie version of Suzanne Collins’ best-seller misses the book’s ferocity, but who cares? Fans will flock by the millions to the biggest franchise since Twilight.
Tuned InReview
ABC was good enough to send me all eight episodes of The River before I reviewed it. So while I was able to give a sense of how insane the show became–enjoyably, to me, but your nautical mileage may have varied–spoiler …
Not too long ago, the very idea of a Broadway musical adapted from a little Irish film called Once would have been inconceivable. The 2006 movie was a teensy, micro-budget independent feature about a Dublin street musician and …
Tuned InNews Media
Right about a year ago, journalists and people who obsess about journalism were talking about the New York Times‘ online paywall, its rules, its porousness, its ethics and its chances for success. We’re almost a year into the wall’s existence and it’s still there. The New York Times is still there. It has, it says, almost half a million …
In which we unravel mysteries behind two blind men—this week’s patient as well as his visionless doctor
On the Season 14 debut, Sherri Shepherd, Gavin DeGraw, Gladys Knight and Urkel cha-chaed into our … hearts? Our souls? Our eyes?
Tuned InMovies
I did not expect much from the movie adaptation of 21 Jump Street that opened last weekend, and not because I loved the original so much that I was worried for its legacy. I watched the late-’80s Johnny Depp original …
Things get slightly electronic on the band’s first album in five years. And though mostly enjoyable, none of these songs will change your life.
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
1. Have You “Everdeen” So Excited?
Katniss. Gale. Peeta. On the big screen. And IMAX, too. The first …
Tuned InTelevision
Word broke late on Friday that after less than a year, The Rosie Show—meant to be Rosie O’Donnell’s flagship talk show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network—was cancelled. If you’re reading that news with any interest, the numbers …
Tuned InTelevision
Every TV critic, however prolific, has a list of secret-favorite TV shows: series that they watch, enjoy, but whether for reasons of schedule or workload or just not having much to say, rarely or never write about.
Bob’s …
