Entertainment

Inside Amy Schumer

Inside Amy Schumer is a Comedy Central sketch comedy show hosted by…Amy Schumer. I saw one or two episodes last year and cringed at the content but I have a much better response to it this year. The comedy is the raunchy low brow humor you’d expect from Seth McFarlane but from a slutty girl […]

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Only Lovers Left Alive

We are traveling. We’re traveling only at night. We drive, we walk, we fly. And then there is angst in between each travelogue. The current Vampire tale from Jim Jarmusch explores modern vampire woes which plague the 21st century undead: Since the word “vampire” is never mentioned in the movie, it could just be a

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Cosmos Reboot

I was curious to see how Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Journey would be interpreted and updated in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Here are some brief musings: This program is on Fox network so it has a wider distribution than the original program which was a SoCal PBS offering. Since it’s on

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Austenland

I have a new favorite movie in the topic of irreverence. Keri Russell is the 30-something woman who is obsessed the the 1995 British mini-series Pride and Prejudice. Her house is decorated in all things from the Recency era and has no boyfriend other than the fictional Mr. Darcy. Austenland is a Jane Austen theme

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Alpha House

Alpha House, the half hour original series from Amazon, springs from the mind of Gary Trudeau of Doonsbury fame. Although I missed new Doonsbury strips during the sabbatical that Trudeau took while he was working on the series, it was worth the deprivation. Alpha House follows four Republican congressmen in their re-election battles, looming indictments,

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