There are many reasons that I gave up on Criminal Minds [CBS, Wednesdays, 9/8C] – among them, a seemingly deliberate bad treatment of women and unctuous and predictable writing. Both are present in this season’s premiere, subtly entitled Mayhem. It’s the resolution of the terrorist investigation/car bombing cliffhanger that ended the show’s third season. You […]
Television: The Mentalist: Simon Baker Sees Stuff You Don’t!
Have you ever wondered what the series Psych would be like if it had been played as a drama? It might well have looked like The Mentalist [CBS, Tuesdays, 9/8C], a series about Patrick Jane, a former fraud television psychic who makes a major career change after a performance on a talk show takes a […]
TECH NEWS: Adobe Unveils CS4
Back in June, the fine folks at Adobe flew me up to New York to participate in a two day training session on their latest and greatest Adobe CS4. I’ve been playing with the beta for the last few months but have been under NDA not to talk about it until today. Below is the […]
MOVIE NEWS: New Projects from Affleck, Kidman & Spade
Lots of interesting projects are in the works for some of Hollywood’s big names and we’ve got the lowdown on several of them. Funny man David Spade is set to star in a new comedy feature titled Divorced Guys. The movie from Wind Dancer Films and executive produced by Matt Williams and Judd Payne and […]
TELEVISION: Heroes Returns With a Bang!
Tim Kring and his creative team on Heroes [Mondays, 8/7C] have heard their show’s fans. Heroes returns with one helluva bang, giving us the answer to last season’s cliffhanger – who shot Nathan Petrelli [Adrian Pasdar] – inside of the first ninety seconds of the season three premiere. The premiere, The Second Coming/The Butterfly Effect, […]
TELEVISION NEWS: Ladies Making Their Move On Televison
This past week was a big week for some of Hollywood’s ladies of televison with several lovely and big name stars scoring guest roles on hit primetime television series and moving into producing new new shows slated for the 2008 Fall TV season. Announcements were made this week about new roles and new projects for Oprah Winfrey, […]
TELEVISION: The Emmy Winds Are Changing!
While some things Emmy [ABC, 8/7C] remain the same [Hello, James Spader!], some things Emmy have definitely changed – and for the better [I’m looking at you Mad Men!]. Gold Derby at the Los Angeles Times has handicapped the possible winners for us, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be right. Heaven knows that the Academy does […]
MOVIE REVIEW: IGOR: Inspired Idea – Utterly Inadequate Film!
In the land of Malaria, things have changed since it was a sunny, happy place. Constant cloud cover and rain have ruined it for agriculture, so the king has decreed that the best way to survive is to develop an economy based on the creation of evil science. The country’s best mad scientists compete in […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Ghost Town: Gervais Displays Surprising Range!
Bertram Pincus [Ricky Gervais] is a solitary man, rude and generally misanthropic, he lives alone and has a job [he’s a dentist] where he can make sure his patients don’t to him. He even has his office literally a few yards from he works so he can avoid as many people as possible – until […]
TELEVISION: Supernatural Season 4 – Review of Lazarus Rising
I don’t have any problem stating that last year’s 3rd season premiere episode of Supernatural, The Magnificent 7, hands down tops my list of what I consider the three worst episodes of Supernatural ever filmed (number two being Ghost facers and number three being Tall Tales). The Magnificent 7 stands out as what I consider […]
INTERVIEW: Sam Winchester at War – An Interview With Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki About his Character in Season 4
Life gets complicated when your brother comes back from hell! Jared Padalecki, one of the two hot young stars of the hit Warner Bros/ CW Network Series Supernatural comes striding into the press room of the 2008 San Diego Comic Con on the determined mission to make up for lost time after getting inexplicably hung […]