Weekly Weekend Episode 4: Late night and some singing
Weekly Weekend features entertainment reviews and pop culture commentary and is hosted by Weekend's editor, Greg Gottfried. This week's guests include Jesse Pasternack and Ben Wittenstein.
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Weekly Weekend features entertainment reviews and pop culture commentary and is hosted by Weekend's editor, Greg Gottfried. This week's guests include Jesse Pasternack and Ben Wittenstein.
Grade: A-
Weekly Weekend features entertainment reviews and pop culture commentary and is hosted by Weekend's editor, Greg Gottfried. This week's guests include Jesse Pasternack, Ben Wittenstein and producer, Leah Johnson. Music credit: "Good Enough" by CuzOH
Malcolm Gladwell once defined the quality of stickiness as “the quality that a message needs to be successful.” It is the thing that makes the content exciting and, if you’re watching a TV show, the thing that makes you want to watch it again next week. “Dr. Ken,” a new ABC sitcom starring Ken Jeong that is based on his life, is funny but far from sticky.
“Black Mass” is a good genre film. The cast and crew all rise to the occasion and help tell an engrossing story. It is not perfect or as good as the best gangster films, but it’s still a solid movie.
8:00 I'm glad Yvette Nicole Brown is in this pre-taped bit.
Weekly Weekend features entertainment reviews and pop culture commentary and is hosted by Weekend's editor, Greg Gottfried. This week's guests include Jesse Pasternack, Ben Wittenstein and producer, Leah Johnson.
Weekly Weekend features entertainment reviews and pop culture commentary and is hosted by Weekend's editor, Greg Gottfried. This week's guests include Jesse Pasternack and Ben Wittenstein. Produced by Leah Johnson. Intro music “Bit Rio” by Podington Bear.
“Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris” is a good time, but not quite the best time. It’s still working on its voice but it is entertaining and boasts one of the best hosts in the entertainment industry.
There’s a subgenre of entertainment titled “the hangout film.” It was coined by Quentin Tarantino, and, in a New Yorker profile about Tarantino, writer Larissa MacFarquhar defined it as a movie where the “primary attraction is the characters,” and that it is something “you watch over and over again, just to spend time with them.” Hangout films feature people that remind us of our friends or how our friends would act if they were played by cool actors.
Grade: A-
I have never been a regular watcher of “Inside Amy Schumer,” but I am going to be now. “Trainwreck” stars Schumer, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie is a lot like its protagonist: funny and flawed.
HBO’s sports documentary parody “7 Days in Hell” is one of the funniest things I have seen this year. It is perfectly paced, hilarious and more than a bit ridiculous. It is, to quote the film “Bronson,” “absolute madness at its very best.”
“Penny Dreadful,” which recently finished its second season, has many strengths. It has strong production values and a versatility unique to the Victorian horror genre to which it ostensibly belongs. But the greatest strength “Penny Dreadful” possesses is in showcasing some of the best, most complex female characters on television.
“Ted” was a mostly funny film which told a sweet story about growing up and the power of friendship. “Ted 2” has its moments, but its loose structure and plethora of unfunny jokes ultimately make it far worse than its predecessor.
Grade: B+
Last year, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig appeared in “The Spoils of Babylon,” written by former “Saturday Night Live” head writer Andrew Steele. That miniseries was so ridiculous in its satire of the ’70s and ’80s miniseries genre it was obviously a joke. “A Deadly Adoption” brings together the same creative team, but it is played with the straightest of faces.
“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is a very smart and touching film. It also makes good use of a storytelling device with surprisingly old roots. It can be called the “it’s not a story” story.
“Community” aired the finale of its sixth season June 2. As we say goodbye to Greendale once again, it’s hard to ignore how much the show has changed and grown since its premiere. This growth is mirrored in the changes experienced by one of the show’s most popular characters: Abed Nadir.
Grade: A