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 […]
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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 […]
Swingtown: Week 4 (Jul 3)
Mark this down as the episode of Swingtown which cemented my love for the show, even though anyone who’s ever watched TV for more than five minutes could tell you where each of the three plotlines were going to go by about fifteen minutes into the hour. Didn’t matter. I’m […]
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 […]
Celebrity Family Feud (July 1)
The more things change, the more they stay the same. When that Family Feud music kicks in, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Aside from the music, the current primetime incarnation of the show is a little bit different from what us purists remember. I don’t know if I’ll […]