Top Five Hilarious American Commercials (As Of RIGHT NOW!)
Published on July 30th, 2010 in: Comedy, Listicles, Staff Picks, The Internets, Top Five Lists, TV, Video |By Ann Clarke
I hate most commercials. Probably 99 percent of them! I especially hate commercials with those goddamned whining wuss-bags playing an acoustic guitar, or a whispery girl with a ukulele. Fuck that bullshit!
In the midst of having to suffer through that torture, I noticed a few diamonds in the roughage. . . and let me just say these are brilliant, and whoever came up with these advertising concepts has my unyielding respect for going against the current shitty trends in commercialism.
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San Diego Comic-Con Diary, Day Three
Published on July 25th, 2010 in: Cartoons, Comics, Conventions/Expos, Gaming, Media, Movies, Science Fiction, Toys and Collectibles, TV, Underground/Cult |By Christian Lipski
Read:
Day One’s Diary
Day Two’s Diary
After going to bed sometime after 1 a.,m. the night before (late dinner), Saturday morning was pretty much a wash. I had a press conference for Futurama at 11:30 a.m., so I took off for the convention center. The room was about two-thirds full, and we all shifted about until the event began.
Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, Maurice LeMarche, and Lauren Tom filed in to have their pictures taken before ascending the dais. They apologized for the absence of the voice of Bender, John Dimaggio, but it was explained that “Dimaggio” was Italian for “running late.” He did show up presently, and the conference began.
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“And Then It All Went Wrong”—VH1’s Behind The Music
Published on June 18th, 2010 in: Music, TV, Upcoming Events |By Emily Carney
Finally, the Rock Gods have heard my prayers, and they are bestowing unto us an episode of VH1’s infamous rockumentary series Behind the Music on. . . the Rock Widow of the Ages herself, Courtney Love.
This show will debut on June 21, and previews have shown it to be, well. . . interesting. At two hours length, I am curious if it will fill the void left from the 2006 Return of Courtney Love documentary from the UK’s Channel 4; will it address her musical output instead of her many tabloid travails over the last decade?
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Law & Order: These Are Our Stories
Published on May 30th, 2010 in: Editorial, TV |An elderly Jewish man is trying to convince police that he helped his ailing wife commit suicide out of love, but what is the real truth? Is he a devoted husband and Holocaust survivor, or Jacob Schulman, a former Nazi death camp officer trying to cover his tracks?
Screencap by megacaps
In 1996, I turned on my TV, randomly flipped to a channel, and became instantly riveted to the screen by the story just described. Eric Bogosian, who had completely blown my mind in Talk Radio a few years earlier, was portraying an attorney defending the fictional defendant, David Steinmetz, in a New York courtroom. This is how I discovered Law & Order. The episode was called “Night and Fog.”
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Top Gear: It’s Biblically Good
Published on May 30th, 2010 in: Culture Shock, Current Faves, TV |With the American version of Top Gear on the horizon, there is no better time to discuss what makes the British version such a brilliant show. The American version is destined to be dreadful—partially because America makes crap cars. European cars are just better.
Top Gear is a car show for people who don’t particularly care about cars (though after watching for a while, one begins to notice cars in ways not noticed before). The cinematography on Top Gear is as gorgeous as anything one would see in a nature documentary. The people on the show drive supercars and do ridiculous challenges and feats of derring-do, but that’s not the best part. The best part is the strange alchemy of the hosts.
Top Gear in Botswana
WhedonFest 2010: A “Can’t Stop The Serenity” Weekend Event
Published on April 14th, 2010 in: Conventions/Expos, Current Faves, Movies, Science Fiction, The Internets, TV |FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact information:
Cynthia O’Malley, Chair
Cindy@whedonitesunited.com
Joe Jordan, Vice-chair
Joe@whedonitesunited.com
WHEDONFEST 2010: A “CAN’T STOP THE SERENITY” WEEKEND EVENT
Joss Whedon fans reunite in Kentucky to raise money for Can’t Stop the Serenity Charity.
Whedonites United present their second annual Whedonfest, a weekend-long convention, to be held August 6-8 at Barefoot Republic in Scottsville, KY. All proceeds will be donated to charities designated by the Can’t the Stop the Serenity Global organization or Whedonites United.
Joss Whedon fans have repeatedly done the unlikely: turning a failed movie into a long-running and much-loved TV series (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), turning a canceled series into a movie destined to become a cult classic (Serenity), and then turning repeat screenings of that movie into a series of worldwide popular fund-raising events to keep the fandom alive while promoting gender equality (Can’t Stop the Serenity).
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Top Five Funniest Evil Mad Scientists
Published on March 30th, 2010 in: Cartoons, Comedy, LGBTQ, Listicles, Movies, Retrovirus, Science Fiction, Staff Picks, Top Five Lists, TV, Underground/Cult, Video |By Lisa Anderson
The Evil Mad Scientist is a familiar figure in popular culture, and is found most often in science fiction, horror, or superhero tales. Evil Mad Scientists are not to be confused with their more benevolent counterparts, like Emmett Brown of Back to the Future. While the Evil Mad Scientist can be a figure of great terror, when this archetype is used for comic effect the results can be hilarious. Following are five of the best examples.
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Tuneage And Telly: When Music & TV Collide!
Published on March 30th, 2010 in: Current Faves, Music, Popcasts, Retrovirus, TV |By Mandy Mullins and Jaime Sparrowhawk
Nothing like syndicated sound and vision on the small screen!
TV careers certainly haven’t killed radio stars; they often spawn them, and vice-versa. Myriad meldings of tune and telly set the scene for pop-preoccupied music mavens Mandy and Jaime, whose latest dispatch promises to be their longest, most eclectic and giddily madcap yet. Do not adjust your sets!
The T.A.M.I. Show, Collector’s Edition DVD
Published on March 30th, 2010 in: DVD, DVD/Blu-Ray Reviews, Music, Retrovirus, Reviews, TV |By Noreen Sobczyk
Perhaps you’ve seen some incarnation of this historic program via bootlegs, but this is the first time The T.A.M.I. Show (Teenage Awards Music International) has seen an official release. Little Steven has been quoted as saying “It’s the greatest rock movie you’ve never seen.” That may be debatable, but The T.A.M.I. Show sure is a treasure.
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Andy Barker, P.I.
Published on January 30th, 2010 in: Comedy, DVD, TV |By Michelle Patterson
One of Andy Richter’s strengths as a comedic actor is something he was just born with: his cherubic face. What the majority of his performances exhibited—in his other (sadly) failed television shows and various film roles—was a wholesome, dimpled mug offset against a usually sardonic soul or secret freak-of-nature. It’s an old show business trick (see Jack Benny and even Dick Van Dyke) but it works.
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