If you didn’t get enough podcast flavor from me in this week’s edition of Firewall & Iceberg , I also popped in on this week’s episode of Ryan McGee and Mo Ryan’s DVD commentary-style “Lost” -themed podcast “Orientation: Ryan Station,” where we kibbitz...

Award season is about to culminate in the granddaddy of them all with the 2010 Oscars ! Before the statues get handed out, I’m giving you a chance to win your own reward with my annual ballot contest ! The grand prize includes limited-edition items from four Oscar nominated films: Up in the Air...

I said some general thoughts about “Caprica” in this morning’s column , so a few more specific ones on the second episode coming up just as soon as I let the old subconscious find the answers… “Do I look male to you?” -Zoe “Yeah.” -Lacy “Frak.”...

Watch the trailer for the Family Guy Star Wars parody “Something, Something, Something, Dark Side.” The Family Guy “Something, Something, Something Dark Side” DVD and Blu-ray will be available on December 22, as well as on iTunes. Read the original: Family Guy “Something, Something,...

I’ve already given you holiday gift ideas for dad , mom , grandma , and now it’s time to round out the group with suggestions for grandpa. What to get a patriarch who loves watching the tube, going to the movies, and listening to music? I have a few ideas, coming from my own grandfather,...

Paranormal Activity , out today, is a scary movie in the vein of The Blair Witch Project in that it seems to be filmed by the characters in the movie. The characters are a couple who start experiencing some eerie happenings in their hotel room and decide to film it, and word is, it’s the most...

Megan Fox gave us a sneak peek at her SNL debut and we weigh in on what we expect to see. Plus, a look at the weekend movie releases like I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell . If you need a good laugh before the weekend, check out the music video from Real Housewives of Atlanta ’s Kim, and don’t...

So, did you guys catch FlashForward this week? Even though I had already seen the pilot (OK, I saw it twice), I still tuned in to refresh my memory. No surprises here - I caught a few nuances that I had missed the first time around, and I can already tell that this may be the kind of show that requires...

According to the Digital Entertainment Group’s midyear report, “consumer spending on home entertainment titles was down nearly 4%,” which isn’t really a shocker given today’s economy, but it still might be a shift in spending habits for many people. Have you noticed a change...

Dirty Sexy Money is back tonight! ABC is airing the final four episodes of the canceled series, but before we actually pick up the show where we left it off . . . they’re going to play the Thanksgiving episode they skipped without warning back in November. At the time, we saw a preview for episode...

If the title and concept of HBO’s Hung make you giggle, just wait till you get a load of MTV’s new show. The network has picked up a scripted comedy series called Hard Times that focuses on a teenager who turns out to have one exceptional . . . um, asset. The show’s main character...

The 2008-09 network TV season ends tonight at 11 p.m., so it’s time to start talking about summer plans for this blog. When I was growing up, summer TV meant lots of reruns, or watching an endless loop of cheeseball movies like “Just One of the Guys” (pictured above) on HBO. And while...

I know I promised to get lengthier in my reviews of “Rescue Me” once we got past the first five episodes, but I’m going to make an exception for “Play” for two reasons: 1)It’s Upfront Week, and I’m beyond slammed; and 2)Way too much of “Play” featured...

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix ) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday , I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. Taken I never got around to seeing Taken when it was in theaters, so I’m glad it’s out on DVD....

Quick spoilers for tonight’s “Party Down” coming up just as soon as I tell you that I’ve seen “300″ exactly 1/4 times (I gave up 30 minutes in)… The last few episodes of “Party Down” had been so deliriously funny that I knew a let-down was inevitable...

Today marks the retirement from blogging of Undercover Black Man, aka Emmy-winning friend of the blog David Mills . As he explained on Monday , he’s done 2000 posts in a little over 2 years, and the blogging has taken its toll: It hasn’t been healthy. Blogging interferes with my sleep pattern....

Spoilers for last night’s “30 Rock” coming up just as soon as I send a gibbon to join the Italian Parliament in my place while I make my own soda(*)… “1959. Boy, it would’ve been fun to write back then. You could get away with crazy plot twists, because audiences...

Spoilers for last night’s “The Office coming up just as soon as I drop out of the seminary… “Maybe you shouldn’t fake fire people anymore.” -Pam The Michael Scott Paper Company arc was so glorious, so clearly one of the best things “The Office” has ever...

Spoilers for tonight’s “Grey’s Anatomy” coming up just as soon as I place a call to my psychic… If last week’s “Sweet Surrender” was a mixture of parts of “Grey’s” I love (Bailey with the dying girl, George helping out Alex) and things...