Tag: Film & Television

I like Rowan Atkinson. Mr. Bean was a staple in my childhood, and when I got older, I thoroughly enjoyed the subtle British humor of Blackadder. His cameos in films like …

Frasier Crane is one of the most iconic TV characters of all time. Between Cheers and Frasier, Kelsey Grammer played everyone’s favorite bumbling psychiatrist for 20 years. That’s enough to …

The French’s role in film history is colossal. From the early 19th century, France has been putting forth directors and innovators like George Méliès who, with his surreal films (such …

Showtime’s programming is notoriously hit or miss. Their “comedies” (Weeds, The Big C) generally center around high concept and ultimately unsustainable premises (a pot dealing suburban Mother, a woman with …

Being sick sucks. But having a rare, life-threatening spine cancer when you’re in the prime of your life really sucks. That’s what happened to Will Reiser, the screenwriter behind 50/50. …

Fall TV has arrived—and with it have come the highs and lows of cable and network programming. We’ve already seen our first renewals (The New Girl, Whitney) and our first …

In the world of movies, there are remakes made for the sake of remaking, and there are remakes made to serve as love letters to their original. When I first heard …

The Gleecap is a brand new column dedicated to recap and review the zany antics that occur in each episode of the television show Glee. Blog posts will be released each Wednesday following …

I, along with every other Netflix subscriber, have become increasingly dissatisfied with Netflix’s shenanigans. First it was the rate hikes and then the creation of DVD-mailing spin-off Qwikster. SNL even …