If we're talking actors with charisma who can't get a break, why the hell is Ryan Kwanten not helming an action franchise yet?

Weird Al calls him a Muppet, and I don't want to live in a world where Weird Al is wrong.

It wasn't yesterday, it was yestewerb.

Twelfth Night is the Shakespearean equivalent of a Starkid show: lots of gender-bending, lowbrow humor, sexualities being flexible if not entirely fluid, and a heartwarming ending where all the couples you've ever shipped get together to bully the comic relief character into absolute submission.

I haven't heard anyone mention Recess, let alone Spinelli from the same, in years. The whole Disney 1 Saturday Morning block seems to have fallen in an "unsweet spot" where none of the shows, however long-running, left ANY cultural mark.

Is Eden Sher ever anything less than effervescent?

Pamela Adlon may be the definitive animation voice of preadolescent boys in our era, but it's hard for me not to see/hear her as Marcie from Californication now.

X-Men: Evolution was pretty good, but I don't know how well it would have aged, since it is so heavily influenced by early Whedon and its WB/UPN derivatives.

Earlier this summer, I started playing Super Mario series chronologically as part of a failed "research attempt" while my producers attempted to contact Nintendo of America for stage licensing rights on Mario and the franchise's iconic jazz and ragtime musical score. (I was envisioning a wacky,…

It's telling that Cuddlekins the stuffed river otter doesn't come with any promises of emotional support in his billing, unlike Stuffed Sloth. Good to know; when I come home to my Big Empty House at the End of a Long Dark Road after a demanding workday, and I'm sad because "Jungleland" was just on the radio, I won't…

Without having been very famous, I think Martin the writer would be a "prestige name" that makes people go "huh, yeah, I've heard of him. Pretty smart guy." Sort of the way your average TV or movie fan will recognize and nod to the names David Mamet or Neil LaBute, but couldn't tell you more than "they wrote some…

The Internet has turned Shrek into this whole other thing, but I think it's worth stopping for a minute and looking at why the first two films (and to a lesser extent, the stage musical) work so well.

"Thanks for all the great comments and su… ck a dick, dumbshits! I'm Jim Gaffigan! Fuck you!"

Sean Hayes is a closer. A nominally well-known, well-liked and "beloved" television fixture, he is nonetheless brought in to shoo out the audience when the networks decide they've had enough of one particular show, and need to get it off their schedule. "Will and Grace" aside, a show that's doing well and has good…

Dog with a Blog was initially pitched as a different sitcom about a Chick. The execs liked the title's rhyme scheme, but hated literally everything else.

That's part of why the Disney characters fit so well into the Final Fantasy archetypes in the "Kingdom Hearts" games: the ultimate simplicity of Mickey as benevolent but enigmatic figurehead, Goofy as guy with more heart than smarts, and Donald as cranky wise guy match well with the single-minded simplicity of the…

Good old Samwell Gamgee, doing his best Laurel and Hardy in the midst of a fantasy apocalypse.

You forgot "unexpected nudity" and "long-expected nudity."

Featuring an extended guest performance by Sean Hayes!

Will she feed them gluten?