Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never Read more...
Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news Read more...
As I said back when we looked at Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek is not my Star Trek, but like Khan, it is a franchise saving spectacle from the mind of an interloper. It’s another film that twists the nethers of purists while serving as a gateway drug to the uninitiated. Sure, Read more...
We knew that changes would come when Don and Ted merged SCDP and CGC, but while this week’s episode did show off some of those anticipated growing pains and redundancies, we also got a chance to pivot back to Don’s consuming love affair with his neighbor Sylvia. The Treehouse. Like a shoebox filled with valuable Read more...
I’m usually not a fan of issue movies. These films take impossibly complex issues and try to condense them down into bite-size portions, usually abandoning the true horrors of these situations in favor of unrealistic heroism, resolution, and a laundry list of cinematic tropes that cheapen the overall project and push people away from Read more...
Logic and history dictates that the thing after a thing that is amazing usually fails to equal or surpass its predecessor, but here we are in the afterglow of a true game changer for Mad Men, just a week after the skillfully composed and impactful episode, “The Flood”. Something More We’ve discussed this before: the Read more...
Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news Read more...
The Summer Blockbuster Season is upon us and our Jason Tabrys and special guest Jeremy R. Hudson have teamed up to bring you a half hour of insight and silliness to get you prepared in an all new podcast. Here’s a list of movies mentioned on the show with their release dates: Iron Man 3 Read more...
When I was a kid, Get Smart wasn’t just a TV show or a batch of old reruns that I would watch on Nick at Nite — it was one of the first shows that me and my dad could connect over, since he had grown up watching the show in its initial run. Now, Read more...
Mad Men has dealt with the death of a gargantuan figure before with the season 3 episode “The Grownups”, which showed us the aftermath of the JFK situation, but last night’s episode was different. Review: I like “The Grownups”, I like how it slowed but didn’t stop the story or the characters and how Betty’s Read more...
