How good was Season One of AMC’s Mad Men? So good that Don actually learned the names of some of the characters! Of course, one of those characters is a guy named Don, but still, that’s an impressive accomplishment. I, like many viewers, was expecting the finale to focus on […]

I’ve tried watching ABC Family, really I have. But for some reason, it always makes me feel like I’m doing something wrong, like I should pull the shades so the neighbors don’t see. Sure, they’ve had some good shows (Greek and, well….), but it just feels weird. Maybe the fact […]

Remember when HBO used to be awesome? Back in the days when they used to have an ongoing rotation of The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, and Six Feet Under? And then they’d throw in Curb Your Enthusiasm every so often? Well, four of those five shows are gone. Deadwood never […]

“Some men just want to see the world burn…” Let me just say right off that with The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan and company have made the best superhero movie ever. Yes, better than Spider-Man 2. Yes, better than Superman: The Movie. And yes, better than Batman: Mask of the […]

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 […]

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 […]