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Community Season Five Analysis: Community had a lot to accomplish in Season 5: get its narrative back on track after the unfocused Season 4, deliver fitting farewells to Troy Barnes and Pierce Hawthorne, re-orient the rhythm of its ensemble with those departures and the addition of new regulars, once again craft a potential series finale or set out a...

Recently, Comedy Bang! Bang! creator Scott Aukerman penned an op-ed directed to the TV Academy asking for the potential creation of a new Emmy category. As it stands now, the Outstanding Variety Series is a catch-all that includes late night talk shows, sketch series, and most other breeds of comedy programs that do not fit in the Comedy...

Deliver us From Evil has the always excellent Eric Bana playing Sgt. Ralph Sarchie – described by Wikipedia as “a New York City street cop with a New Jersey accent who has put his faith in religion behind him, only to find himself entangled with the devil.” When one digs deeper into the story, which you will do if...

Normally I would not make my preview, predictions or wishlists about the TV Movie/Miniseries categories for the 2014 Emmy Nominations, but then I watched Fargo and I decided I would cover this field because I loved Fargo so much. But then I realized that I watched hardly any other miniseries, and the only TV movie I watched was...

Not many people are forgetful or patient enough to age a bottle of beer for five years.  Luckily, I happen to be a little of both, no matter what my wife tells you about the whole patience thing and the new/exciting expletives I invent during video game play.  On the label of Goose Island's high(er) end beers, it is...

You have to give this kid credit he has a huge set of balls. He also has a small bag of them. He heads to Chatham one of the roughest sections in England and asks random strangers if they would like to see his balls. No one is safe from this prankster’s wrath. He harasses policemen, security guards and even...

In my last post, I made a point of ridiculing the notion that a lack of female protagonists means that developers are sexists. Essentially, I stated that while there is a lack of female protagonists in video games, it’s due to the fact that developers are simply sticking with the status quo. It’s a decision based on business sense...

For the time being, I’m not going to address the “Racist” accusation here. I haven’t played Watch Dogs and haven’t read enough about it to make any kind of an educated statement about that. That leaves the sexist accusations. The general consensus that I’ve seen is that all too often, players aren’t allowed to play as a female protagonist...

As I mentioned in the Comedy portion of my Emmy preview, in years past, I have considered animated sitcoms alongside their live-action counterparts, but this year I decided to consider them separately, because there really are enough fundamental differences between the two mediums. But the Emmy categorization isn’t really conducive to honoring animated shows in the same way...

In The Internet's Own Boy, director Brian Knappenberger has captured the work of a genius, Aaron Swartz, and along with this important story of a man’s life, makes a statement on society, government’s failure to protect the civil rights of citizens and provides information that wasn’t part of the headlines over Swartz’s arrest and death. There are...