Jon Stewart Explains the Viacom/DirecTV Debacle
You’ve probably heard and/or have been affected by DirecTV pulling all 26 Viacom channels over a price increase. Twenty-six channels. MTV, Nick, BET, Spike, Comedy Central, etc. Both companies have been going back and forth fighting over “the captain’s chair on the Titanic” while the customers at DirecTV are being punished. DirecTV was even letting their customers know that while this is worked out they could watch their favorite shows on their websites. Viacom decided to pull those shows off the internet for a couple of day affecting even more people. They’re back now, FYI. Read the rest of this article…
Ha! Ha! Adult Swim’s Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law – Complete Series Review
Dangly parts!
When I was in high school, the cool kids were playing Grand Theft Auto III and watching Adult Swim: a bunch of crazy late night, “mature” shows on Cartoon Network, y’know, a kids’ network. I didn’t get into it until college, but between Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama reruns, some passable anime, and their other original content, I was sold. My favorite show was Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, another satirical re-envisioning of Hanna Barbara’s rubbish old cartoon programming after the success of Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast, the progenitor to all this madness.
Being Flynn Review: De Niro’s Finally Acting Again
In Being Flynn, Robert De Niro takes a break from a decade of giving bland performances in shitty movies (Stardust excepted) to give a great performance in an above average movie. One could argue that the rather simple story of damaged young man reuniting with his delusional, near-sociopathic father shouldn’t merit resurfacing of De Niro’s dormant talent, but I don’t care. As a longtime fan of De Niro, particularly the work he did from 1973-1997, I’m just happy to see him actually acting again instead of collecting massive paychecks in exchange for sleepwalking through bad movies.
Charlie Sheen Just Quit the Internet
Wow, it was only a year ago I wrote how Charlie Sheen just joined the internet and now only 16 months, 7.7 million followers and 1,196 tweets he has decided to give it up. Pretty much just leaving the internet at this point right? Maybe it’s because he has a new show and he is too busy to tweet. Not according to inside sources though who claim, Charlie wasn’t getting anything out of the social network. Who gets anything out of Twitter really except news fast? His last tweet? Read the rest of this article…
5 Ways To Watch The CrossFit Games
I just learned how to kip on the keyboard!
Want to watch the most elite athletes compete for the title “Fittest Person on Earth”? Of course you do. But where on Earth can you witness the CrossFit Games? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! Read the rest of this article…
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope Review: More a Pleasant Commercial than a Documentary
I’ve never been to the San Diego Comic-Con, but I’ve wanted to go ever since I was kid, reading blurbs about the convention in the pages of Batman, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Uncanny X-Men, and any other comic book title I could place my grubby little hands on. So it goes without saying that Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope piqued my interest. I enjoyed this movie, but I’ll add the caveat that it will probably appeal exclusively to comic nerds and pop culture junkies. To everyone else Comic-Con Episode IV is just going to come off as pornography for geeks, which it probably is in all fairness.
Deus Ex Movie? CBS Films Just Bought the Rights
It wasn’t too long ago that Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out and sucked up hours upon hours of mine and Nick’s life. And today CBS Films just announced they have acquired the films rights to Deus Ex. Let’s hope the film will be made relatively quickly and not shelved for a period of time. Read the rest of this article…
Aesop Rock’s Skelethon Review: The Best Indie Rap Has Ever Been
Aes’ first album in almost five years had to live up to lofty expectations. Thankfully, it does.
A lot has happened since Aesop Rock released his last album, None Shall Pass: NYC-based indie rap label DefJux went into indefinite hiatus (Aes went to Minnesota-based Rhymesayers for this release), his best friend Camu Tao succumbed to lung cancer, five years have passed, and Aes now appears in public with a hobo beard, appearing as a survivor of the apocalyptic tale he’s put together for Skelethon. Knowing he was taking a long time bringing this album to life, he even forwent the use of long-time producer Blockhead and put his latest album together on his own terms. Welcome back, Aesop.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Review: Needs More Hatchet
Dividing a country with an election, dividing vampires with a hatchet.
Normally we’d give a movie like this a midnight release treatment, but for whatever reason, it slipped through our grubby paws. To be honest, if I don’t get to a film early on, chances are I’ll never catch it in theaters. I’d known about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter since the book was on shelves, but as the trailers would blare before other films, it appears it’s finally reaching a mainstream audience. “They seriously made a movie called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?” they say. It sounds like the perfect idea: take one of our country’s most historically influential president, a quiet, introverted guy with few friends, and turn that sad sap of a back story into a chronicle about how he avenges the death of his mother and becomes a highly-skilled vampire hunter! If only it worked…
Savages Review: Just Kill the Girl
Poor Taylor Kitsch. Oliver Stone’s Savages is the third crappy movie he’s headlined in the past four months. In concept, this movie should have been fantastic. Savages has Oliver Stone finally returning to the crime genre after a long break from making films like Scarface and Natural Born Killers. The story at least appears to tackle the prescient matter of Mexican drug cartels, and the cast includes some damn good actors including Benico Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Aaron Johnson, and Demian Bichir. And yet, a few colossal missteps from the screenwriters sabotage the entire production.
