Ponder with me one of the great mysteries of the universe: how can it be that the 2012 romantic drama “The Best of Me,” starring Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden, has an average rating of 4.3 stars out of five […]
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An alphabetical list of celebrities who support Donald Trump
Kirstie Alley What she’s famous for: a sitcom about alcohol abuse, a series of movies about talking babies What she said about Trump: “I want someone that will rev us up and make us pay attention. Donald Trump, whether you […]
Our friend Barack
Have you guys noticed anything different about Barack lately? Doesn’t he seem a little more confident—not just politically, in his State of the Union addresses and gun control efforts, but socially? A little more willing to “put himself out there” […]
The Vermont of “Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter”
I missed Adult Swim’s initial December airing of the five-part miniseries “Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter,” but when I found out that the show was set in Vermont, I hastened to catch up. An absurdist melodrama about a gun-toting, neon-clad vagabond […]
Quiet riot
Did you hear about the 2,000-person brawl that took place at Kentucky’s second-largest indoor shopping mall last week? A teenage riot of epic proportions, it shut down the Mall St. Matthews in suburban Louisville two hours early on Boxing Day, […]
It makes me sick
I don’t know if you’ve ever eaten at Chipotle: the company operates a single restaurant in Vermont (in Burlington), but with roughly 2,000 locations worldwide and billions in yearly revenue, the fast-casual Mexican chain has reigned for the past decade […]
Made-for-TV Christmas movies: “The Flight Before Christmas”
Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of reviews of randomly selected, low-quality, made-for-TV Christmas movies. Why do adults watch Christmas movies? I think we do it in large part to convince ourselves that Christmas exists. The […]
Made-for-TV Christmas movies: “The Mistle-Tones”
Editor’s note: The following is the second in a series of reviews of randomly selected, low-quality, made-for-TV Christmas movies. In the first scene of “The Mistle-Tones” (2012), our heroine—running late for an audition—slips in the shower, tumbling into a pratfall […]
Made-for-TV Christmas movies: “12 Dates of Christmas”
The following is the first in a series of reviews of randomly selected, low-quality, made-for-TV Christmas movies. The most disconcerting element of the fictional universe of the 2011 ABC Family movie “12 Dates of Christmas”—the tale of a Manhattanite named […]
Sorry not sorry
A full month has passed in which my minor obsession with Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” music video has not subsided; I suppose it may be time to come clean. Released on Oct. 22, 2015, the clip has so far notched only […]