I know what you are thinking, yes its only September, but with festival circuit in full swing, Telluride, Venice, and Toronto, it’s time to start talking about and predicting this year’s Oscar contenders. I have held back as long as I can. The earliest “serious” contender came from the Cannes Film Festival, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher […]
A woman who is a mother and a cop? Shocking! The Mysteries of Laura would make you think that being a working mother is brilliant new trick, or premise for a television series. This show makes working mothers who are balancing family and career look appalling, and I am a single gay man. There were […]
The statistic all over the Internet, troubling studio executives and producers of the world, is the domestic summer box office was down 14.6 percent from last year. Some films found footing in this drought, especially good movies. I think there are lessons to be learned that could help change things, but will anyone listen? Make […]
*Spoilers Ahead* Over seven seasons True Blood has had some ups, and lots of downs. After the show’s second season, the series seemed to over stuff the cast with people who were killed off in meaningless methods, rather than focusing on the development of the central characters. Who remembers the Sam and his family of […]
First and foremost, I must say I am happy with all of the Breaking Bad wins, that show deserved every trophy it won tonight, but more on that later. Let’s start with the host, poor Seth he tried, he started out with some great zingers about cable television and Netflix being the most nominated shows, […]
Can Modern Family tie Frasier’s record for the most wins in a series category with 5 wins? Will first year show Orange is the New Black, which is more of a drama in my opinion, do what Desperate Housewives could not, win in this category as a dramedy? Last year there were two big surprises […]
So will/should win at the Emmy Awards in the drama categories this year? If you are trying to win your office pool, you should know that every show competing in drama series submits 6 episodes, or if there is a two hour episode, that counts as one on a tape. Each actor submits one episode, […]
Sorry if you missed my sassy re-cap last week, but I did not have much to add. I figured I would chime in on the second to last True Blood ever because, True Blood is making the last season of Dexter look like Shakespeare. Is Bill going to die? I honestly hope the answer to […]