The House movie review: burn it down
The hint of a seed of a bitter satire is buried under inept, momentum-free comedy. They should have developed the script’s rough first draft instead of shooting it.
House
the Game of Thrones spoof of that Time cover that makes me go ewwwww (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: What is the greatest aspect of Fox’s legacy, 25 years in?
The X-Files? In Living Color? The Simpsons? Firefly? Something else?
question of the day: What actors have you been surprised to discover were a different nationality than you’d believed?
BBC America’s Secretly British is tongue in cheek, of course: no one is actually hiding their nationality. But sometimes we’re surprised anyway…
Friday night fortune cookie: Dr. Gregory House says…
“Everything sucks. Might as well find something to smile about.”
Fox doesn’t understand the Internet, or its audience, or the state of TV today
Back in March, I bitched about how ABC had pulled its broadcast feeds from Cablevision, my cable provider, over fee disputes. And now the same thing is happening again, with Fox…
question of the day: What is the appeal of Dr. Gregory House?
I learned an astonishing thing recently: the most popular TV show on Planet Earth right now is House, watched by 82 million people last year in 66 countries, edg[ing] out “CSI” and “Desperate Housewives” to get the top spot, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide. That’s from an article by Vanessa Richmond at AlterNet, wherein she … more…
question of the day: What do you think of Kal Penn qutting acting to work for Obama?
Cue the Kumar Goes to the White House jokes. Actor Kal Penn — of Harold & Kumar and House fame — has quit acting, at least for now, to work in Barack Obama’s White House. Penn will work with the arts and Asian-American communities. (If you want more info on Penn’s departure from House, check … more…
why does TV suck so much lately?
I’ve given up on Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes. Given up on blogging about them on an episode-by-episode basis like I have been doing. I’m still watching… sort of. Because what I really mean when I say that I watch something on TV is that I give it my undivided attention, which means that that … more…
trailer break: ‘House’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… No, it’s not Hugh Laurie’s irascible medical detective, it’s another horror movie not screened for critics. If the trailer is to be believed, it’s about a house that appears to be haunted: the originality of the concept is, honestly, startling. But the official site promises us … more…
