The Big Bang Theory is quickly approaching the end of the line, but the show is passing one more landmark before it goes. With the production of its 276th episode, the CBS sitcom has officially claimed the title of longest-running multi-camera sitcom, surpassing Cheers‘ previous record of 275 episodes. (272 episodes of The Big Bang Theory have aired so far.) The show’s official Twitter account tweeted a photo of the cast around a tray of cupcakes spelling out “276. Read More...
It would be nice to say that The Big Year is the best comedy ever made about competitive bird watching — excuse me, I mean birding. (Birders get very sensitive about terminology.) It would be nasty and convenient to say that it’s the worst comedy ever made about birding. The truth, however, is that it’s an amiably formulaic, ever-so-slightly original comedy that isn’t, in the end, very good. Yet the more I sat through it, the more it won me over in its very benign high-concept way. Read More...
The former bad boys of the Sunset Strip, Mötley Crüe, get just the biopic they deserve in Netflix’s adaptation of the hair-metal band’s best-selling memoir, The Dirt. It’s cartoonish, fast-paced, a bit cheesy, and ridiculously dumb fun. Nikki Sixx, the band’s bassist who would later become a death-wish heroin addict, kicks things off with the sort of cheeky postmodern voiceover that was once groundbreaking but has now become a cliché in movies like this. Read More...
