I’m going to say goodbye to Lost sometime around May next year.  I know the end  is coming.  They’ve told me so.  And unlike other shows (Hello, Scrubs) that claim to be exiting stage left and then come back in some lesser distorted form, I know that Lost is going away forever.  (And I really [...]

If it is possible to win an Oscar for the first twenty minutes of a movie, then Where the Wild Things Are has this year’s honor sewed up.  For twenty minutes, Spike Jonze has made the most painfully real portrait of a normal flawed relationship between a parent and a child that I’ve seen in [...]

I’ll just warn you up front.  I’m about to take a metaphor about dedication to TV shows and long-term romantic relationships way too far.  Deal with it.
So, I’ve started seeing this show called Fringe.  I had heard about it for a while.  It has been on the air for a full season and last year [...]

Let’s just get something out of the way.  I can’t dance.  I’m not usually a big fan of watching people dance.  And I tend to get a little uncomfortable at functions where dancing might break out.  We’ve all got our things, and dancing most definitely is not my thing.
Maybe I’m just too self-conscious to let [...]

Flipping through channels last night, I ended up on Grosse Pointe Blank.  We own both of the soundtracks and the DVD for this flick, but I hadn’t seen it in awhile.  So, having no reason not to, my wife and I watched it again.  If you haven’t seen it, kick it to the top of [...]

So I’ve watched a couple of episodes of Glee.  Mainly because it has been seriously hyped by the entertainment media and the blogosphere.  I understand why.  It’s ever so slightly different than most of what you’ve got on network TV now.  And it was created by Ryan Murphy, whose previous series Nip/Tuck strikes people as [...]

I caught the tail end of Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist again on TV last night.  Like so many other moviegoers, I missed this when it was in the theater.  I did catch it on DVD when it came out.  In what may be a new record for me, let me start with a digression.  [...]

Far too often lately, I’ve been faced with TV shows that I really liked in the early seasons trying my patience in the most recent ones.  I know that pretty much any show is going to have ups and downs in quality and I’m resigned to riding out the lows in my viewing life.  Luckily, [...]

I thoroughly enjoy the HBO show Entourage.  I’m not going to put it on a list of best shows of all time, but I definitely enjoy spending a half-hour a week with this crowd.  Having tried myself to sell some screenplays, I particularly enjoy the inside baseball treatment of the film industry as star Vinnie [...]

OK, this post is just going to be me getting all nostalgic about one of my favorite shows ever.  Yeah, Party of Five was a sappy show, but it was a well-written sappy show with deeply flawed and loveable characters that I suffered with each week.  It was a show that started with a sad [...]