Catching Up on 2012: 21 Jump Street
I never watched the TV show 21 Jump Street, and though I was mildly curious about the apparently comedic take on the material in Jonah Hill & Channing Tatum’s 21 Jump Street film, I missed the film in theatres when it was released last spring. I wasn’t too broken up
News Around the Net!
The great Dick Cavett has a phenomenal piece up at nytimes.com on all of the recent Tonight Show silliness. This is definitely worth a read. Also worth your time: the moving words of tribute posted at AICN in remembrance of the great Roger Ebert. I LOVE LOVE LOVE these Arrested Deve
Re-Reading Batman the Animated Series’ Paul Dini’s Run on Detective Comics!
I am digging deep into some old Batman continuity, friends! After starting a project to re-read Grant Morrison’s years-long run on Batman (click here for part one, and click here for part two), I decided to also re-read some of the other Batman comics of that era. Parallel t
Catching Up on 2012: The Campaign
In The Campaign, Will Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a handsome, smugly arrogant Democratic Congressman from North Carolina. His easy-street string of running unopposed is broken when two corrupt businessmen (Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow) convince someone to run against him. That someon
Catching Up on 2012: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
In Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Jason Segel plays Jeff, a young man searching for himself. Jeff seems like an intelligent and affable fellow, but when we meet him we also see that he’s something of a lazy bum, and he still lives in his mother’s basement. Ed Helms (The Daily S
