Best Super Bowl Ads

Viewers are always assured to have a reasonably good time watching the Super Bowl even if the game is boring. The biggest television event of the year usually has the best commercials of the year. Companies spend millions of dollars to produce and buy coveted marketing time during the most watched telecast...

February 8th, 2010 | Featured, Reviews, TV, TV Shows | Read More

82nd Academy Award Predictions

The only reason I look forward to the bitter deep winter months is because it is also awards season. It recent weeks we have had the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, and the Grammys. However, without a doubt, the most exciting and entertaining of all of the awards is the little golden man–Oscar. Last...

February 6th, 2010 | Featured, Film | Read More

The Best of the Decade: Television in Review

Entertainium’s best of the decade series continues with television-in-review. “The tribe has spoken”: In May 2000, an American version of the Swedish game show Expedition Robinson premiered on CBS. The show’s first season attracted 28.3 million viewers and was a summer hit. The show’s second...

November 30th, 2009 | Featured, TV | Read More

The Blind Side Review

The Blind Side is a film about escaping poverty and disadvantage and finally finding success. The story is based on the real life journey of NFL player Michael Oher who is adopted by the white upper class Tuohy family and given a proper education and loving support. Due to the help of his new family,...

November 25th, 2009 | Drama, Featured, Film, Movies, Reviews | Read More

Album of the Decade: Kid A

Kid A is the most revolutionary album since Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Yes, that statement has strong implications. Much like the NBA trying to find the next Michael Jordan, the comparison to The Beatles’ 1967 album means that greatness necessarily was present in the album. Indeed, Radiohead’s...

November 24th, 2009 | Featured, Music | Read More

The Best of the Decade: Music in Review

In about one month, the decade with a name that hasn’t been decided will come to an end. (As an aside, what are we going to call this decade? There’s no convenient numbering system like the eighties or nineties. Do we go with the aughts? The Robert Parrishes? The one with the global financial crisis?) So,...

November 22nd, 2009 | Featured, Music | Read More

Modern Warfare 2 Review

How does one assess Modern Warfare 2? It is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. As the true successor to the mega-hit Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare 2 warrants comparison to its predecessor. Call of Duty 4 was a beautifully polished game, featuring both a memorable campaign and addictive multiplayer....

November 22nd, 2009 | Featured, Gaming, Playstation 3, Reviews, Video Games, Xbox 360 | Read More

FlashForward: “No More Good Days” Review

Mark this date on your calendars: April 29th, 2010. If you’re a college student, it’s the day before the last Friday of classes for the 2009-2010 academic year. If you’re a television watcher, it is the day alluded to in last night’s premiere episode of ABC’s FlashForward. For those who don’t...

September 25th, 2009 | Drama, Featured, Reviews, TV, TV Shows | Read More

The Office: The Meeting Review

“The Meeting” aired last night and it was a satisfying return to form for The Office. For the last couple of seasons the show focused more on the personal lives of the workers and less about their actual day-to-day business. There were many hilarious episodes during in recent seasons but I sometimes...

September 25th, 2009 | Comedy, Featured, Reviews, TV, TV Shows | Read More

Cougar Town: Pilot Review

I really wasn’t expecting a lot from Cougar Town. It seemed like an ABC comedy that was a rehash of Desperate Housewives. The show centers on women in a suburban Florida town who crave sex. After watching it was confirmed that the women living in Cougar Town definitely want to have sex—a lot of it....

September 25th, 2009 | Comedy, Featured, Reviews, TV, TV Shows | Read More