Eek! Piggy Flu Has Infected the Wizarding World

You know those times when you laugh so hard for so long that you actually try to withhold your laughter because you are in so much physical pain? Your head aches, your jaws ache, your neck aches and your ribs feel like someone’s been using you as a boxing dummy. Isn’t that the best? Well,…

Ah, Christmas – the time of year when television becomes somewhat worth watching on a regular basis. Because I don’t care what the cool kids think. Christmas specials rock the socks off we sensitive types. They are all so filled with hope and love to the point of being ridiculously cheesy. What can you do…

There is a rare, bittersweet joy in watching the unfolding of a love story that will never be allowed to fully blossom. It’s what makes movies like Malena and Never Let Me Go so poignant, what makes songs like Almost Lover feel so lonely. That stated, the subtext in Going Home was so-not-even-subtext that I will…

This is how I know for sure that there was no Rapture on Saturday. This woman is still on Earth – This is Aunt Mary. You can call her that. Everybody does. Aunt Mary is my great aunt on my dad’s side. She lived about two blocks over from us throughout my entire childhood and,…

You won’t believe the things that Olympia Dukakis says in Cloudburst. If you can get through the entire movie without your mouth flopping open at least once, your jaw has stronger hinges than mine. It’s dialogue is written and delivered to shock, the turns in the plot designed to set up the next big joke….