Tuned InTelevision
On Saturday, comedian Louis CK did what was arguably a stupid thing. He made his latest concert video, Live at the Beacon Theater, available for streaming and download at his website for five bucks. The stupid part, depending on your view of human nature, is that he put up a version of the video that had no copy protection—you download …
I’ve never really heard Ke$ha sing before. I’ve listened to her songs, but behind all the sound effects, strobe lights and multi-colored outfits, it’s often hard to tell what the pop star actually sounds like.
Unveiled at this past weekend’s Spike Video Game Awards, is this full-o’-awesome (and really bloody) trailer for The Last of Us, a survival-horror title for the Sony PS3.
When Men in Black 3 hits theaters next Memorial Day, almost a decade will have gone by since we last saw Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones together on screen.
Tuned InTelevision
The American Film Institute announced its 2011 awards for the ten best films and TV shows on Sunday. This year, as I have been a few times before, I was on the jury (along with other critics, including Tim Goodman, Matt Roush and Ken Tucker, and numerous TV-biz professionals). If you’ve read my own ten-best list, you know how I voted, …
Like crops and the stock market, the music industry has years of plenty and years of drought. 1965 saw several new songs that are now considered classic, such as Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Can you imagine what that year-end Top …
Tuned InRemembrance
Harry Morgan, best known to TV audiences for playing the gruff, lovable Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H, died Wednesday morning. (Given that he died at the age of 96, I think congratulations are in order along with the condolences.)
At some point in his career, novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) realized that he didn’t need to shy away from writing about pop culture in his books. (Though, as he says, “I don’t even like the term pop culture. It’s culture!”) He realized that having his characters engage with the songs and albums …
Tuned InTelevision
In this week’s print TIME, Joe Klein has a cover story on Mitt Romney’s inability to close the deal with Republican primary voters. For months, the polling trendline has looked like this: Romney has been cruising flat on the moving sidewalk of his campaign, while watching Rick Perry, then Herman Cain, and now Newt Gingrich rise past him …
Walt Disney Pictures’ John Carter doesn’t premiere in theaters until March 2012, but that doesn’t mean that Disney won’t crank up the old buzz machine to get people talking about the interplanetary action flick.
Tuned InNews Media
I don’t yet know how history will remember the Herman Cain candidacy for President, but the pizza king /erstwhile GOP frontrunner has given us what I believe is a first in Presidential campaigning: the candidate went on a cable-news show yesterday evening and scooped his own accuser on a charge of a 13-year extramarital affair. Asked …
Tuned InTelevision
My Thanksgiving involved cooking most of the holiday dinner in Brooklyn and driving it to my mother-in-law’s house in New Jersey: smoking a turkey, cutting it in pieces and foil-wrapping them, and stuffing them into a cooler packed with towels for insulation. It was a job not unlike transporting an organ for transplant, or disposing a …
Tuned InTelevision
The Republican primary candidates debated once again on CNN last night. If you’d like actual political analysis of the event, I’ll send you to my friends at Swampland, but other than some wrangling over military policy and Newt Gingrich’s position on immigration, there seemed to be few momentum-shifting moments. So instead, I invite you …
