As mentioned in my not-sure-why-I-posted-it “ We Saw It! Pearl Jam … In My Dreams ” post earlier today, I had a premonition in a dream late Sunday night (or maybe it was early Monday morning) that featured a comedic quartet that I compared as a cross-between Mumford & Sons and the duo that does the “Get Happy, Get GEICO ” commercials. When I went to write my story, I went searching for a reference to Mumford & Sons, possibly the video for “ The Cave “. Instead the first item that pulled up on […]
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We Saw It! Pearl Jam … In My Dreams!
Pearl Jam LIVE in concert? A Mumford & Sons foreshadowing? Or was this all a dream?
Drews & Don’ts: The 20 Best Episodes of “The Office”
As “The Office” closes its doors after nine seasons of workplace hijinks, it’s hard to separate the show at large from what the show’s become. Following television’s grandest tradition of continuing a successful sitcom long beyond its logical stopping point, the mockumentary sitcom has trudged through two largely laugh-free seasons following the departure of star Steve Carell. And while the ninth and final season has taken great strides over the dire eighth to wrap up the Scranton crew’s storylines in […]
Pass the Popcorn: Todd Phillips’ “The Hangover Part 2”
Let’s get this out of the way: yes, The Hangover Part 2 is more of the same. The title implies (correctly) that it can be viewed as merely an extension of the earlier film, as opposed to a brand-new one, and it hits every beat in its (already-worn) formula succinctly. If you didn’t much care for The Hangover, that sentence should function as a perfectly serviceable review for you, and anything else I have to say is merely window-dressing. Not […]