November 17th, 2010
Natalie Portman’s portrayal of a tormented ballerina in Darren Aronovsky’s upcoming film ‘Black Swan’ has many critics buzzing, but it’s not just her twirling that has everyone talking. (more)
September 2nd, 2010
Has Queen Amidala turned to the dark side? (more)
June 29th, 2010
Popular online video service Hulu on Tuesday will announce the launch of an ad-supported subscription service that will offer top broadcast shows in high definition to be viewed from a plethora of devices, including Internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes and game consoles, as well as portable devices such as Apple’s iPad and iPhone. (more)
February 20th, 2010
All in all, it’s not quite as revealing a sneak peak as Comedy Central’s look into the Family Guy writing staff: (more)
February 19th, 2010
This past Sunday, the FOX animated comedy “Family Guy” took a swipe at former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her mentally handicapped son. A scene involved a character named Ellen, who was suffering from Down syndrome, making a remark about her mother being the former governor of Alaska. The actress who voiced the character on the show, also suffers from Down syndrome. (more)
February 16th, 2010
Former vice presidential candidate and Facebook fan Sarah Palin has taken to the social networking site again, this time in response to Sunday’s “Family Guy” episode that appeared to mock her developmentally disabled son Trig. (more)
January 1st, 2010
This atrocious unaired pilot from 1996 is actually the second such crack that series creator Seth Macfarlane took at the first Family Guy episode. Macfarlane himself introduced this scene from another thankfully unaired 1995 pilot: (more)
November 30th, 2009
The rumored Windows 7-themed Family Guy episode (that, fortunately, never aired ) represented one of the most egregious examples of blatant product placement potentially ruining a TV show in recent memory. Eagle-eyed Family Guy fans will notice that these promos are actually just re-dubbed versions of previous Family Guy episodes, suggesting that they were never meant to form a coherent new episode after all. But the fact remains that Microsoft pulled its planned live-action Family Guy special, perhaps after seeing the quality of these (intentionally?) bad clips. (more)
