Posted by kittson on 25 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
What’s In the Spotlight
The O.C.
My husband makes this noise with his teeth and lower lip when something presented with a lot of bravado ends up being lame. It sounds like an almost-fart. If it were a word, it would be “ferp”.
Now ask me what I thought of the final episode of The O.C.
Ferp.
The show skipped […]
Posted by kittson on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Have you ever referred to yourself as a metrosexual? Do you spend as much time perfecting your hair as your girlfriend does? Then Hitch just may be the movie for you. It’s a Bridget Jones’s Diary or My Best Friend’s Wedding for men, in which the guys are insecure and the women are gorgeous and […]
Posted by kittson on 20 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Check your supplies and set your DVR: this Wednesday Jericho returns from a three month hiatus with twelve new episodes. The story of a small Kansas farm town that finds itself cut off from the rest of the world after a series of nuclear explosions obliterate most major U.S. cities, it’s CBS’s answer to […]
Posted by kittson on 17 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Television, What I Watched
In the Spotlight
Men In Trees
I can imagine the pitch: Northern Exposure meets Sex in the City; lose Dr. Fleischman, and strand Carrie Bradshaw in Alaska instead. Thus was born Men In Trees and Marin Frist, who, like Carrie, is an attractive woman from New York City who writes relationship advice (and also narrates the show […]
Posted by kittson on 16 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
One can’t help wondering why Garrison Keillor, whose weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion is still going strong after 30 years, would write and star in a movie about this same show’s final night on the air.
Directed by the late Robert Altman, in his signature style, where characters talk naturally over each other, and […]
Posted by tim on 14 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review
Sienna Miller may not make the best decisions when it comes men (see Jude Law), but she sure knows how to pick a role. As Warhol muse/superstar Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, Miller offers up a triumphant display of talent. It’s too bad she’s stuck in a film with so many problems.
With Guy Pearce as […]
Posted by kittson on 11 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Television, What I Watched
Lost
Finally Lost is moving forward, but to what end? The charming series about a group of castaways learning to survive on a dangerous island is gone. In Season 1, when faith ruled over science, there seemed to be a divine plan. Each survivor with his or her peculiar talent had been taken from an unhappy […]
Posted by tim on 09 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Television, YouTubery
By far one of the most hilarious products Saturday Night Live has put out this season, the Digital Short Body Fusion gives us a textbook case of what poorly produced fitness videos were like in the decade that dare not speak its name. Watch and judge for yourself.
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Posted by kittson on 08 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Before funny Will Truman and Grace Adler, and before adorable Jen Lindley and Jack McPhee, there were bittersweet Nina Borowski and George Hanson of The Object of My Affection.
Written by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles) from a novel by Stephen McCauley, and directed by Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George, The […]
Posted by tim on 07 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review
Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett’s current offering, Notes on a Scandal, is designed to entice and titillate audiences with its provocative teacher-student courtship and depiction of unrequited lesbian love. Well, it sold me.
Blanchett plays the stunning and coy Sheba Hart, an art teacher with a telling naiveté and a bit more money than she’d care […]