Miley Cyrus Dirties Up the VMAs

By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. It’s time to burn the Hannah Montana sheets. In case you missed it (lucky, lucky you), Miley Cyrus delivered a new low to television on Sunday night, during her performance on the Video Music Awards. Given that the VMAs aired on MTV, the king of low brow television (aside from the paid porn channels, that is), [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:17-04:00August 27th, 2013|1 Comment

Game Night, Anyone?

By: Mary Fran Bontempo Who would have thought? In our technologically saturated world, one of the most delightful shows on TV this summer is a throw-back of sorts. Hollywood Game Night, hosted by Glee's Jane Lynch, pits two teams of celebrities, along with one "real" person, against each other in a variety of live action party games for the chance to win a $25,000 grand prize, with a $10,000 payout for the charity [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:17-04:00August 16th, 2013|0 Comments

Breaking Bad

by Chrysa Smith 'It's the best show on tv,' said my 22 year old son, 'You need to watch it.' He was talking about the AMC series Breaking Bad. It's been a success for the past four seasons and folks from Meredith Viera to the mainstream media to the Gen X crowd are talking about it. It's not only addictive in and of itself, but it's also the last season. The show is [...]

2013-08-08T11:16:47-04:00August 8th, 2013|2 Comments

Shutter Island–A Thriller for Home Movie Night

By: Mary Fran Bontempo Leonardo Di Caprio. Those two words are reason enough for me to watch just about anything, kind of like "George" and "Clooney." But just because a guy's pretty doesn't mean he turns in a great performance. Yet with Leo (you, too, George, with the exception of the abysmally boring Solaris), a great performance is a given--every time. Leo even breathed life into Jay Gatsby, a character that the great [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:19-04:00July 26th, 2013|0 Comments
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