The Fallacies of Award Shows
Admirable, yet unexciting. These words could be used to describe much of the content that has won major artistic awards over the last few years, from the Oscars to the …
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Is ‘Happy Endings’ Circling the Drain?
It’s become a widely accepted fact in the traditional TV market that niche, cultish comedies will flounder in the ratings, only to subsist on the strength of its cult audience. …
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Format Changes, Content Stays the Same: Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’
This review is written by someone who has watched the whole first season of House of Cards on Netflix. If you have not completed the season, some mild spoilers follow. …
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‘The Americans’ Review
The leads in FX’s new drama, The Americans, which premiered last Thursday, don’t seem a terribly compelling subject for a series. Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings live and work in the …
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Ethics and Super Bowl Ads: Take the Good with the Bad
This Super Bowl, advertisers shelled out up to $4 million for a 30 second commercial. About 108 million Americans, bellies full of beer and wings, constituted their captive audience. There …
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Cinematheque: An Evening With Ross McElwee
On Friday evening, a large lecture hall in BU’s College of Communication got much smaller. While no actual construction or re-arrangement of furniture occurred, the room went from being a …
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FOX’s ‘The Following’ is All Blood, No Substance
It’s no secret that cable drama has been kicking the major networks’ ass for the past decade. Though network comedy has largely stayed strong, the broadcast networks have found themselves …
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The Best Movies of 2012
Contributions by Jon Giardiello and Asta Thrastardottir In a year in which countless critics announced the death of film culture as we know it, 2012 was a comparatively strong year for movies, …
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FOX’s “New Girl” Changes For the Better
More than any other art form, the sitcom changes drastically over time. Most commonly, an original premise reveals itself to be unsustainable and the show has to compensate for it. …
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2012’s Overlooked Movies
With Oscar season approaching and with prestige films like The Hobbit, Les Miserables, and Django Unchained set to dominate the headlines for the coming months, now is the time when …
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The Sequel To Boy Meets World Is Happening
[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/BenSavage/status/273212328428851202″] It’s been over a decade, but Ben Savage is once again relevant. TV Line exclusively reported on Monday that Savage and former Boy Meets World co-star Danielle Fishel …
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Checking in On NBC’s Revolution
Four months is a long time to wait. Is Revolution worth it? Network drama has been seriously struggling for a while now. Since Friday Day Night Lights went off the …
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