Featured Articles
House: Lies!
Arsenic! Children’s vitamins! Gross hospital cafeteria pizza! It’s all on the House menu this week. Who’s getting poisoned to death this time?
Well, no one, since House’s patients don’t die very often, because a show about a genius doctor who doesn’t solve the vast majority of his cases would get crappy ratings. And this time, our heroes don’t even get that close to killing anyone, because they’re too busy focusing on the fact that their patient is an Evil Lying Liar Who Lies Read the story »
Gossip Girl: A Very Special Thanksgiving Meal
This Thanksgiving I will not be giving thanks to the writers of Gossip Girl for giving us such a convoluted and confusing episode. We have five competing story lines with contrived, overlapping facts. Like Jamie Oliver, I’ll strip the stories down to their essence so you can finish up your TPS reports before you leave for a happy Thanksgiving with you and yours. Read the story »
Tonight's TV Choice
(Week of November 17 – November 23, 2008)
Friday
The Game. An underrated show, on an overrated network. The Game is produced by Kelsey Grammer and is hands down the best comedy on the CW. It is one of Michelle and Barack’s favorite shows. Uh, not really but it was worth a try to get you to watch. The CW, 8:30pm EST.
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TV Reviews
Dancing with the Stars: A Cinderella Story
Lance Bass was quite the Cinderella story on this week’s episode of Dancing with the Stars - he...
Fringe: The Equation
Who’s exhausted out there, Fringe-icans? I can’t be the only one. First, there’s...
Eli Stone: Back-seat Deifying Versus Front-seat Litigating
Eli Stone continues its solid run with this episode that finds Eli and Jordan struggling to stem the...
Heroes: Stalling For Time
Heroes has never been shy about time travel. Whether by virtue of powers, visions, flash forwards, or...
True Blood: And Then There Was One
It’s such a bittersweet feeling when a show approaches the end of the season just as the characters...
Movie Reviews
James Bond: Shaken but Not Stirring
Let’s face it Quantum of Solace is no Casino Royale. While it still has the action, the car chases,...
JCVD Is Jean Claude Van Damme Good
I took two trains and walked a mile in the pouring rain to go see JCVD at a little specialty theater...
Slumdog Millionaire
I don’t often use the word “cute” to describe movies that open with torture scenes, but that’s...
Rachel Getting Married: You Never Forget Ones That Makes You Cry
Every once in a while we put away our need to watch the usual action packed blockbusters, screwball comedies,...
Poptimal Podcasts
Poptimal.com’s The Jone Dome Ep. 4
Episode #4 - November 12, 2008 - This week the team broadcasts live from Poptimal’s Football Party and talk about the Homeless Guy and Pee Bottle Boobie-Trap, Knight Rider, W., and America’s Best Dance Crew.
