Zooey Deschanel is one of oday’s most-beloved up-and-coming actresses, having starred in well-known films such as “Elf,” “Yes Man,” “(500) Days of Summer” and “Our Idiot Brother.” She is an extremely talented actress from a showbiz family. It’s rare that a star as talented as…
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Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
Culture doesn’t just appear; it’s birthed, often painfully after hours, days, weeks of labor. It takes focus, dedication and practice. Personally, I love seeing the sausage get made. I’m obsessed with how TV, music and film are created. Going into the first full dress rehearsal…
If the aging kings of modern day indie rock are Pavement, then Wilco is their strongest son, a collective of experimental individuals with a vision of what the kingdom is to become. Through seven studio albums of ’70s inspired alt-country and cock rock, Wilco became…
There’s a lot of room for niche podcasting in a world as vast as the Internet, and that’s what makes the very selective shows so fascinating. Not only do people have to make the topic intrinsically interesting, but they have to have fun with it.…
In the past decade, both Family Guy and Futurama were cancelled by Fox, then brought back due to strong ratings on cable and high DVD sales. While Family Guy has enjoyed high ratings since its return, its quality has steadily decreased, becoming too reliant on…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
45 years ago this month, a new television show debuted “The Man Trap” aired on NBC. Star Trek premiered with this episode, beginning one of the most successful franchises in television history, including five different series, along with 11 movies. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of…
Ten years ago, FX was one of the most useless and rightly forgotten networks on basic cable, showing non-stop reruns of some of the worst sitcoms of the late ’90s, namely Just Shoot Me, the later, Charlie Sheen-dominated seasons of Spin City, Dharma and Greg…
Peoria has always been a city that was in desperate need of realizing that it had become a college town. Barring a few friendly establishments downtown and the rote businesses that catered solely to college students around campus, there’s not much to let residents know…