The Tragic Age is a brilliant coming of age novel–one that has been likened to both The Catcher in the Rye and The Outsiders–that follows Billy Kinsey as he navigates his way through what many consider to be one of the most…
Goodbye Parks and Recreation: I’ll Miss You Leslie Knope
Here’s my brief goodbye for a show that deserves a thousand more words: There isn’t a lot of optimism on television, particularly “prestige” television. There are a lot of muted emotions and angry outbursts. We have our antiheroes, our villains…
TV Review: 12 Monkeys 1×06 – “The Red Forest”
Looking back to the first episode of this season, the time travel aspect is baby steps, compared to the timeline of the last episode. Creators Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett seem to take an unholy joy in creating convoluted timelines…
Common and Friends: Hip Hop at the Oscars
I really don’t care much for awards season, in a musical sense, because if you pay attention most songs that get nominated by the Grammys are either smash radio hits or they are overplayed and forced upon you, I only…
TV Review: Fox’s Gotham 1×17, “Red Hood”
So this was an eye-opening episode of Gotham. Sorry, this was an eye-gouging episode of Gotham. Last week, I wrote about how ridiculous this whole prison setup is. I stand by that, but this week takes it to a whole…
The 87th Academy Awards Winners – Full List
Last night’s Oscars Ceremony was full of terrific speeches, moving performances, and Neil Patrick Harris doing his best holding down one of the hardest hosting gigs in town. It was also the year that we learned that you can defeat…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 5×11, “The Distance”
It is amazing how The Walking Dead is a show where the happiest episode in a while is one that features an entire car getting splashed with zombie goo. Easing the breaks on the bleakness seen in the past few…