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. However, the pilot did... Read More »

Modern Family: Pilot Review

A gay couple with a an adopted Vietnamese baby, a May/September relationship, and a traditional family comprise the characters of Modern Family, a show that explores the dynamics of three different families that are all related (the patriarch of the May/September relationship ties the other two families together). The show is filmed in the mockumentary style, with brief interstitials... Read More »

Two and a Half Men:...

Two and a Half Men is a show that, like it or not, demands to be reviewed by any legitimate entertainment critic. Last season, it was the highest rated comedy on television and on Sunday, Jon Cryer upset Neil Patrick Harris to win the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor. Its star, Charlie Sheen, is the highest paid actor in... Read More »

Accidentally On Purpose: Pilot Review

Accidentally on Purpose is CBS’s new comedy starring Jenna Elfman. She plays Billie, a newly single 37-year-old woman living in San Francisco  just out of a three-year relationship with the successful and smart, James (Grant Show). Out partying with her friend Olivia (Ashley Jensen) and sister Abby (Lennon Parham), Billie falls victim to the advances of a young smooth... Read More »

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Premiere...

Larry David’s life is far from perfect. Although he is wealthy and retired, he has so many social hang-ups and quirks that his basic interactions with friends almost always put him into hilariously bad situations. The show rarely disappoints and luckily for all fans, David decided to bring the show back for a seventh season after a brief hiatus.... Read More »

The Goods Review

This summer, studios have expanded the reach of the typical “guy comedy” movie. Movies such as The Hangover have broad appeal due to the affability of their characters, which allows an advertising executive to spin the movie as being about friendship, thereby overshadowing some of the movie’s raunchiest bits.  The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard does not fit in with... Read More »

Does Entourage Roll Deep or Fall Flat?

It is the show that placed “hug it out” in America’s lexicon. It also gave Jeremy Piven a steady career and ensured that America didn’t remember him as Dean Pritchard from Old School. However, after viewing the first four episodes of season six, Entourage can be known also as the show that got too stale and overstayed its welcome.... Read More »

Judd Apatow and The Comedic Renaissance

Funny People is a movie that I knew I was going to like. The reason? Judd Apatow. Read More »

Bruno Review

Three years after the rousingly successful Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the screen with another of his original characters: Bruno. The gay, Austrian fashionista and host of the Funkyzeit comes to America with the goal of becoming rich and famous after he is blacklisted from the European fashion scene. Bruno is filmed in a similar style to Borat... Read More »