I love fall. The cooling weather, the falling leaves, the nights full of eager TV shows so excited to make my acquaintance or re-acquaintance. And here are the ones I know I’m making time for.
1. Glee. It’s going to become my new favorite. Pop music sung by teenagers! Dancing! Jane Lynch! The little gay guy [...]
Entries Tagged as 'What's on the screen'
The 5 TV shows I’m staying home for
September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · What's on the screen
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5 movies that are even hotter than you
August 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 5 things, What's on the screen
It’s hot here in the former swamp that is now our nation’s capital. Not as hot as it could be and I’m not complaining because the summer has actually generally been quite nice but August in DC is always August in DC, so therefore it is hot.
To make me feel slightly less hot though, here [...]
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For John Hughes: If you leave, don’t leave now
August 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 5 things, What's on the screen
I don’t care how many Home Alone movies he wrote — and he’s even forgiven for the hideously awful Maid In Manhattan (for shame, Ralph Fiennes!) – John Hughes will always be the god of 80s teen romances. Maybe all teen romances ever. So as a tribute, here are my favorite John Hughes-written films.
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Once upon a summer, twenty years ago
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments · What's on the screen
June 30, 1989: On a hot summer day, Spike Lee drops a bomb on America.
Spike Lee is like Woody Allen in many ways I think. Not just because they focus intimately on New York and because their best films feel highly personal to their own specific cultural milieu while being also deeply engaging and approachable [...]
5 TV shows that I am sad are cancelled
May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · What's on the screen
The beginning of summer is such a sad time. All year long, TV shows have jostled and begged for your attention and now, their reckoning day is due. Did you love them enough to bring them back in the fall? Did they have your votes, America?
Apparently these did not.
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What a week to be a geek!
May 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments · What's on the screen, Whatever ...
I am totally geeking out this week.* And you should be too. So why are we all squeeing like teen fangirls at a cosplay convention?
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Good book: Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · What's on my bookshelf, What's on the screen
Why I picked it up: I liked the movie. And because I liked the movie so much and Joseph Gorden-Levitt’s main character so much, I wondered if that same character in the book was as dynamic or if it was the actor. Turns out it was both.
Some people don’t like to read books after seeing [...]
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5 movies that were better than their books
March 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments · 5 things, What's on my bookshelf, What's on the screen
It’s a longstanding meme out there that the book is better than the movie. But every once in a while, a not good book makes a good movie or sometimes, even more rarely, a good book is made into an even better movie.
Saturday spectaculistic: One man’s movies of the year
February 21st, 2009 · No Comments · What's on the screen
The end of the year in Hollywood land is never Dec. 31. It is always the moment that the golden man goes to the Good but not actually the best because we don’t award interesting or edgy movies Best Picture at the painful end of a long, long night — and that moment happens to [...]
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5 movies starring Brad Pitt’s chest
February 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 5 things, What's on the screen
Just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button this weekend and it was a better movie than I thought it would be. Mainly because there’s a lot of Brad Pitt gorgeousness. The man is beautiful. I don’t care if you are gay or straight, like ‘em dark or short or fat or [...]