I don’t really understand concert reviews. Reviewing something that happened once is, I don’t know, more like bragging. Will a good review convince you to travel back in time to see Tom Waits at the Ohio Theatre? And on a tour that’s already sold out, either you’ve already got a […]
Author: EJ Feddes
A Beautiful Gory Display: Wanted (Jul 8)
On the one hand, the movie version of Wanted has Morgan Freeman. On the other hand, it does not have a character made of “the collected feces of the six hundred and sixty-six most evil men on the planet”. Morgan Freeman is pretty awesome, but that’s not what I call […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Wall-E (Jul 8)
So what if Wall-E has been in theaters for 10 entire days and is yesterday’s news. We here at spunkybean don’t review things in a knee-jerk fashion in advance of a movie’s release. No sir. We watch movies. Meditate on them. Watch them again. And again. We sneak around the […]
Who Needs Fresh Air?: Action – The Complete Series (Jul 2)
Wow, it’s warm outside. And with a holiday weekend there are going to be picnics and fireworks and crowds and flying disc related games. It’s a little bit horrifying, frankly. If you want to avoid all of that hullabaloo, I recommend hiding out in your TV bunker with Action: The […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Futurama – Beast with a Billion Backs (Jul 1)
It is without exaggeration that I say that the FOX Network’s cancellation of Futurama was one of the great injustices of our time. A sci-fi comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, starring an alcoholic robot, it is quite frankly, one of the greatest things ever. Finding new ratings life on […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Get Smart (Jun 24)
Most attempts to turn classic TV shows into movies fail horribly. It’s a dangerous proposition. It’s especially dicey when the original series was based around an iconic performance, like the original Get Smart. Don Adams was the show. Turning it into a movie is silly, quite frankly. But the equation […]