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What's On Tonight? - Thursday, September 9

Posted by Ariana | Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 9:10am

Check in with us daily to see what's new tonight on TV (all times Eastern/Pacific).

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The Crafty Monkey Awards: Our Best in Television for 2009/2010

Posted by Paul Little | Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:35am

Last night may have been Emmy night in Hollywood, but we all know the internet was clamouring for the real winners of the past season in television: The Crafty Monkey Television & TV Achievement Awards! As the last awards to make their official debut on ShowbizMonkeys.com (after the Melodic Monkeys and Golden Monkeys), the Crafty Monkeys are also running things a bit like the major awards shows. No, we don't have a "ceremony". Or "stars". Or "anybody noticing". But we do have nominees and winners in a whole host of television categories!

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Review: Piranha 3D

Posted by Andrew Burns | Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:27am

I know what you're thinking. This guy is giving a movie with man-eating fish as its main characters a 4 out of 5 star rating, and therefore must be an idiot and/or he doesn't know what he is talking about?

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Review: The Takers

Posted by Andrew Burns | Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 8:27pm

With a mediocre summer for movies almost over, I was looking for one last film with a good cast. Having a good cast can make a film better than its script, and it can also save a movie from poor material (ie. The Expendables). The Takers falls into the latter category, with a cast of mainly up-and-coming or younger actors. Personally, I'm a sucker for the heist genre, and having a stacked cast makes it easier to watch when I see holes in the story. Maybe it's because heist movies are so hard to pull off correctly and believably, that you just need a good team behind the premise to make it work.

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Mad Men, Modern Family, Breaking Bad, and Temple Grandin the big winners at a moderately amusing 62nd Emmy Awards show

Posted by Paul Little | Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 1:12am

The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards took place tonight at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, and like most years, there were few surprises. The Emmy voters tend to be pretty predictable, and tonight was no different, as Mad Men took home Best Drama Series honours and rookie sitcom Modern Family won for Best Comedy Series. Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston captured his third straight Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama, favourite Jim Parsons won the Best Actor in a Comedy Emmy for his work on The Big Bang Theory, and former Sopranos Emmy-winner Edie Falco took home the Best Actress in a Comedy award for her new show, Nurse Jackie. The only minor surprise in the main categories came with The Closer's Kyra Sedgwick winning the Emmy Best Actress in a Drama Emmy ahead of the more likely Julianna Margulies (given her SAG and Golden Globe wins).

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Walkey Talk: Death of the Guilty Pleasure

Posted by Michael Walkey | Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 8:23pm

Summertime is traditionally not the greatest time of year for television. Every once in a while a surprise summer sensation sneaks under the radar and completely enthralls the public (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Survivor). This year was no exception, as the summer of 2010 will be remembered as the year that brought the return of that great piece of cinematic art: Wipeout. Okay, so Wipeout is not really art, nor is it even cinema. But it sure is a piece of something!

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Review: The Switch

Posted by Andrew Burns | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:48pm

Going into The Switch I was expecting a funny comedy with a few serious moments to keep the movie grounded. Instead, to my surprise, it was the other way around, being mostly a genuinely serious film. Being marketed as another summer comedy in all the trailers and TV spots, The Switch hopes to trick some moviegoers into buying a ticket. Having two former TV sitcom stars in Jennifer Aniston (Friends) and Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) as the leads does make promoting the movie that way an easy sell. Maybe it was my own fault setting up my own expectations higher for the movie by judging the trailer beforehand, but I think a lot of people may feel cheated, too.

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Review: The Expendables

Posted by Andrew Burns | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 5:24pm

In need of a summer blockbuster that will put your brain on auto pilot for two hours, have some familiar faces, and put hair on your chest? Well then The Expendables will do the trick for you. This flick is jam-packed with past and present action superstars. I won't even go into their names or resumés because it will just take forever, so just watch the trailers or look at the poster if you've been living under a rock this summer. With testosterone being a key ingredient for any action movie, writer/director/star Sylvester Stallone invited only the manliest of men to be in his bloody action flick. Even the guys who were unable to be a main character, because of shooting schedules, still made time to squeeze in a cameo.

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Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Posted by Andrew Burns | Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 1:01pm

Get ready geeks, because this flick is bonkers! It’s utterly bonkers from start to finish, but in the best possible way. Going into this movie with no knowledge of the graphic novel series it’s based on, I had no expectations. Luckily, I did have a childhood filled with countless hours of Nintendo under my belt. What does that have to do with anything? It means this movie blew my mind and gave me the same feeling of satisfaction as when I saved my first princess with an overweight plumber. If you didn't get that reference or grow up in the 80s with a Nintendo, this film may not be for you. It’s geared towards today’s younger audience and those in their 20s still living with their folks.

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Review: The Other Guys

Posted by Andrew Burns | Sunday, August 8, 2010 @ 6:27pm

Going into yet another collaboration from Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay, I tried to keep an open mind about The Other Guys. Not being the biggest fan of either of their previous works, Step Brothers & Talladega Nights, I'll admit I was a bit skeptical this time around. However, I really liked it. Partly because of Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, but most of all because of Michael Keaton (maybe that's just me). So, if you aren't one of those die hard Will Ferrell fans, you still might enjoy this flick if you give it a chance.

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Psych: Chivalry is Not Dead... But Someone Is

Posted by Paul Little | Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 3:54am

It took a few weeks to get going on these recaps, but for 3 weeks now, everyone's favourite fake psychic has been back! Psych began its fifth season on USA on July 14th with a super-sized episode featuring Chinese gangs, forbidden love, Shawn's dad now working at the police station, Juliet not working at the police station, and a whole lot of kung-fu! It was not only one of the most action-packed episodes in the show's history, it also did a good job of setting up the overarching plot threads for the new season, including the tension between Shawn and Henry ramping up (with Henry now in charge of the consultants -- meaning Shawn & Gus -- at the SFPD) and the whole Shawn/Juliet dynamic (if you're looking for some hints at where that will be headed, read my interview with Psych creator Steve Franks from a few months back, which includes some season five scoop).

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Review: Dinner for Schmucks

Posted by Andrew Burns | Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:52pm

Since the name The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was taken, director Jay Roach (Meet the Parents) titled this summer’s hilarious comedy Dinner for Schmucks. It was inspired by a French film from the 90s called The Dinner Game. The film sets up like this: once a month, a company dinner is held where someone's 'plus one' is the dumbest person they can find, and they laugh at their expense. The one rule is the schmucks have to be told the dinner is for extraordinary people, not idiots. Sounds like a pretty hateful,depressing plot for a movie, eh? Actually, it’s quite the opposite. The film turns out to have enough heart, you don't even think about the plot in that way.

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