film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
This has been going around the Web for a week or so, and I’ve been trying to avoid it, but I can’t get it out of my mind… especially since so many people seem to think it’s simply hilarious.
I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel Live, but I’m wildly intrigued by the episode that aired last night (which I only just heard about this morning). When Kimmel’s studio lost partial power on Monday night, laying low cameras and the control room, he turned on his laptop, fired up his webcam, and, as Dave Itzkoff at … more…
Did you hear about Jimmy Kimmel’s takedown of ABC execs at the ABC “upfronts” — where the networks present their new shows to advertisers — this week. From The New York Times’ Arts Beat: [I]n a “Jerry Maguire”-like moment of clarity, Mr. Kimmel said, “Everything you’re going to hear this week is” nonsense. “Let’s get … more…
It’s very easy to puncture the self-importance of Hollywood types, and this HBO original series never fails to take that easy route, though it cloaks itself in a veneer of intelligence and insight. Vince Chase is the hottest thing to hit the movies since Johnny Depp, but Adrian Grenier (Hart’s War) fails to make us … more…
