How have we never heard the term "internerds" before? In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tina Fey uses our new favorite new word to describe the hordes of opinionated internet commenters who have become an extremely vocal minority in the last few years. Brilliant, Ms. Fey! We’re totally stealing that… starting now: the trailer Read More
After six episodes, we’re still not sure what to make of Fringe. While J.J. Abrams’ much-hyped new show has become a permanent fixture on our DVRs, we can’t say that we really like it. However, we don’t really dislike it either. Tonight brings the series’ first new installment in two weeks, ominously titled "In Which Read More
Good news for fans of absurd science fiction! Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams’ Fringe for a full season order. After an iffy pilot and slack ratings, Fringe has become a moderate hit since being paired with House on Tuesday nights. Its audience has grown and stabilized, two good signs for a network show, and Read More
We stayed home last night to watch J.J. Abrams’ new show Fringe and, happily, found it to be passable entertainment, perched even, on the precipice of possible excellence. We won’t give you a review, since our esteemed colleague already did that, but the pilot did leave us with one question. What was with all Read More
When it comes to casting leading women, J. J. Abrams may be the smartest person working in television. For his first show, Felicity, he plucked an unknown Keri Russell from the land of extras and made her an instant star, with her signature mass of kinky hair and antique visage. For Alias, he cast a Read More
Monday: 13 Going on 30
Though we try to recommend a classic straightaway, this week we’re going with a bubblegum hit. A 13-year-old girl, Jenna, makes a wish on her birthday to bypass adolescence and just be 30, which of course happens. (It’s Big, gone girly!) She wakes up to discover that she’s got an Read More
When it comes to having a party for anything at all J.J. Abrams–the man who still has us trying to figure out what the heck the deal is with smokey the smoke monster on Lost — we suppose it’s best to expect the unexpected. But a premiere party for his new show Fringe (premiering September Read More
A teeny little feature in the Times’ Home & Garden section about parents who turned their house into a maze of hidden puzzles, games and treasures for their four pre-teen kids will be a movie. J.J. Abrams (producer of Lost, Cloverfield, etc.) has signed on to produce, and two scribes (neither is the article’s Read More
On Saturday night at Tribeca Film Festival’s premiere of Tennessee, we caught up with the righteous and stern Lieutenant Daniels from The Wire, also known as Lance Reddick.
“The funny thing for me about life after The Wire is that I’ve worked more since The Wire than I did the whole time I was Read More
Oh, poor New York. It just isn’t getting any better for you at the movies, is it?
After seeing I am Legend, with the haunted empty Manhattan streets, and the rabid virus-mutated zombies, and the German Shepherd, etc., you might think you’d be prepared to watch Cloverfield.
And you’d think wrong!
The top Read More
