Sunday, August 25, 2013

Aubrey Plaza Begins a Very Promising Film Career With Safety Not Guaranteed

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This is an odd little movie. It kind of fits in the rom-com category. It's kind of funny. It's kind of just plain wacky. The won...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

My 63 Favorite TV Shows of All-Time

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This is with the caveat that I still have several potential candidates for this list on my "to binge watch list," including The ...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Classic Reads: A Tale of Two Cities Thrusts Us Into the French Revolution

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Despite the complicated and sad plot, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens , is well worth reading, especially for those not that fami...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

A Thousand Pardons Owes Readers No Apologies

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A Thousand Pardons , by George Plimpton's former personal assistant and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jonathan Dee , had me hooked from the ...

Friends With Kids: Bad Idea in Many Ways

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For a movie with so many of my favorite actors, Friends With Kids  could easily be considered a stinker. Granted, Jon Hamm of Mad Men ...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Danny McBride Saves the World in This Is the End

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It's been a while since I've watched Danny McBride 's HBO masterpiece Eastbound and Down , so the new film, This Is the End , ...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Paul McCartney Plays the Perfect Show at Nationals Park

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The only way that Friday night's Paul McCartney show at National Park could have been any better would have been if John, George, and...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Hunger Games Could Have Been Better Movie

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The Hunger Games is the perfect reality-TV book for our times. I greatly enjoyed the "sophomoric," as I called it, book when I ...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

My Top 90 Favorite Movies of All Time

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In honor of Entertainment Weekly's excellent lists in the new issue of the top 100 movies, books, music, and others, I thought I would ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Celebrity Edition: Hangin' With Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss

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An excellent first day at the Vocus PR conference at National Harbor in Washington D.C. culminated in a meet-and-greet with keynote sp...