Giveaway: Cash in with Cash Cab!
Think it'll be easy to win these Cash Cab prizes? Guess again! In the spirit of the show, we'll be asking you a pop culture-related question in order to be eligible for these prizes. One (1) grand prize winner will receive: $50 Visa Cash Card Cash Cab board game Two (2) additional winners will receive: Cash Cab board game Here's How to Enter (no purchase necessary): 1) Answer these two questions: Who is Ben Bailey? True or False: the Cash Cab is actually a registered cab in NYC. 2) Send an email to contests@poptimal.com with the subject line: “Cash Cab Contest” and include your answers in the subject line. Deadline to ...
Oscars 2012: Grumpy Old Men
Forty-seven percent fresh. Certified rotten. Such is the current state of Best Picture nominee Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on Rotten Tomatoes, bastion of quality for all widely released films whether they like it or not. While the Fresh/Rotten scorecard has ostensibly replaced the greater Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down of the last great critic revolution, it arguably is not the most accurate way to measure critical mass; the yea or nay of it all is a bit black and white with little wiggle room. But even the more granular aggregate of Metacritic places Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close at a 46/100, ...
Spartacus Interview: Creator Steven DeKnight Talks Season Two
I think it’s safe to say the Starz original series Spartacus is unlike anything else on television, in more ways than one. The sword and sandals epic premiered in 2010 as Spartacus: Blood and Sand and garnered a small but mighty fan following that’s carried it through a prequel, Gods of the Arena, and now into the second season, Vengeance. The show tragically lost its star Andy Whitfield in late 2011 to non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Whitfield had already stepped down and given his blessing to a new Spartacus, Liam McIntyre, who takes over the role this season. In a recent conference ...
Advanced Screening – Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Poptimal.com and Warner Bros. are teaming up to get 30 lucky Poptimal fans into an advanced screening of the new movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Here is your chance to win a pair (2) of tickets. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Saturday, February 4 10:30 am AMC Tysons Corner McLean, VA In Theaters February 10 Please note, tickets do not guarantee admittance. Seating is first come, first served. Fill out the form below for a chance to win. (No Purchase Necessary) *** If you are on Twitter, you can get extra entries by following us at @Poptimal and send the following tweet: “Chances ...
Gossip Girl Review: Waiting for the Wedding
On the heels of last week’s frustrating plot device, this week’s Gossip Girl delivers some humor, some scandal, but, ultimately, nothing too exciting. The good news? We are only one week away from the royal wedding, which is bound to be the best episode of the season. But let’s talk about this week first, shall we? Serena’s column is about to launch, and the first entry is all about her new relationship with Dan—her fake relationship with Dan. But the publicity may backfire on Dan. His agent fears his publisher will only want a sequel to Inside, which Dan is not interested in writing. He asks Serena to ...
Being Human Review: Solo Ventures
Last night’s Being Human saw our three protagonists spend most of the hour going about their separate lives. Josh (Sam Huntington) awoke the morning after the full moon, having been saved from Hegeman’s bullet by Nora (Kristen Hager) who, in a surprise to no one but her, underwent her first werewolf transformation. Josh finds her sitting on the steps of his house, a little shaken, not really remembering anything that happened. Throughout the episode, their relationship spirals somewhat, Josh dealing with the fact he’s accidentally turned his lover into a monster, and Nora, in a great display of realism in a ...
The CW TCA’s: Let’s Hear It For The (Badass) Boys
On the International Scale of Badassery, the boys of The CW are pretty badass. And when you put six of the hottest boys the network can muster on one stage, what do you get? A gorgeous panel called The Badass Boys of The CW. And lots of laughter. The boys, Kristoffer Poloha (Henry Butler on “Ringer”), Wilson Bethel (Wade Kinsella on “Hart of Dixie”), Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester on “Supernatural”), Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass on “Gossip Girl”), Joseph Morgan (Klaus on “The Vampire Diaries”), and Shane West (Michael on “Nikita”), answered questions and bantered with each other about their characters’ badassery as well as ...
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