Katy’s “Teenage Dream” Is No Nightmare, But It Ain’t “One Of The Boys”
EMI and the Katy Perry marketing machine have done a bang-up job making Katy’s second studio album, “Teenage Dream“, into the musical version of a hotly-anticipated summer blockbuster movie. With the multi-week pre-release of five singles from the disc – “E.T.”, “Not Like The Movies”, “Circle The Drain”, “Teenage Dream” and “California Gurls” – Katy dominated [...]
AMC: From “American Movie Classics” To “All Men (In) Crisis” In Three Short Years
“Harder.”
With one arresting little word, “Mad Men” came roaring back to TV sets on July 25th on AMC. And we will discuss the season premier in more detail in a bit. But first, some thoughts about “Mad Men”s network TV home.
In the actual smoky past that “Mad Men” portrays, there was no mistaking what purpose network TV served. [...]
The DVR Spins: The 2009-2010 Season-Ending Wrap Up, Which We Held Until “Glee” Could Join Us
As May sweeps ended on May 26th, so came the end of the 2009-10 regular TV season. Fox won the demographic battle – 18 to 49 adults – and CBS won the cumulative audience total for the season.
With the much-debated ending of “Lost” garnering much of the attention, other series and season finales did not get the focus [...]
“Lost: The End”, A Season In Hell, or Welcome To the Celestial Church Social (Nothin’ But Spoliers)
Ultimately, if you do not care for metaphor, you likely wasted your Sunday night [5/23/2010] on “Lost: The End“. Your popGeezer was a Lit Major, so I was a happy, weeping basket case… in the first twenty minutes of the recap special. You can only imagine what a mess I was by 10:30 PM CT.
The debate over [...]
Those Pesky Kandorians Go Down, Not With A Roar, But With A Sigh of Relief (Mostly Mine) (Spoilers Abound!)
(IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE SMALLVILLE SEASON FINALE, “SALVATION”, READ NO FURTHER! SPOILERS LEAP TALL BUILDINGS AT A SINGLE BOUND!)
Well, come on. After spending so much time dissecting the current season of “Smallville“‘ and predicting how it’s going to all turn out, you didn’t really think I was just going to let the finale [...]
The Short-Attention Span Critic’s Corner
Need reviews? Don’t have a lot of time for ‘em?
That’s why your popGeezer is a Short-Attention Span Critic. Here’s some one or two sentence reactions for a whole slew o’product:
“Iron Man 2” (Marvel/Paramount): Maybe it requires an exhaustive and life-long dedication to the holy texts of the source material, but I really liked this one. [...]
“Friday Night Lights” Returns to NBC, With Eyes and Hearts Intact
Thanks to DirecTV, I long-ago wrapped up my viewing of what turned out to be a very satisfying fourth season of “FNL“. Now, NBC viewers get their chance, starting May 7th.
Jurnee Smollett, Madison Burge and Michael B. Jordan all are wonderful additions to one of the best casts on prime-time [semi-network] TV. Jordan has completed one [...]
“Smallville” Declares Checkmate, As Producers Reveal Back Nine of Season Nine Secrets! (Spoilers Abound)
[Ed Note: Here's an all-new "Smallville" dissection from Cadillac Jack. Please to enjoy...]
In that age-old playground debate of “Superman or Batman”, I have always been a Batman guy.
Not that Supes wasn’t cool as an iceberg, but Bats was a normal guy underneath all that spandex. It was easier to think that the only thing standing [...]