Reality Bites: Jersey Shore

Of all the reality show formulas I hate the people-living-in-a-house genre second most, after the legal prostitution masquerading as dating shows of course. Big Brother bores me to tears and Real World hasn’t been relevant or real since say 1995. But my secret shame, my guiltiest of guilty pleasures is watching the antics of what…

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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS

POP FILTER VS. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY   Man what a waste of decades-long adoration. 2001: A Space Odyssey is clearly one of those vague and artsy movies that people lie about understanding and say they liked to make themselves seem smarter. I know I’m of the ADD generation used to quick cuts and witty…

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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN

TOP TEN MOST BRITISH PEOPLE 10. ROD STEWART I wouldn’t say Rod Stewart is the most absurdly british person so much as he is the most absurdly badass person ever. I look for any excuse to write about how awesome he is and he just so happens to be British. If you need proof that…

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Reality Bites – Young, Broke & Beautiful

Television for the week of July 25th   IFC is like the hipster generations MTV, and like its acronymed predecessor it’s started replacing the films which were once it’s bread and butter with reality based programming having nothing to do with the title of the channel. Young, Broke and Beautiful is IFC’s stylized travelogue following…

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Hey, You Know What You Should Do?

Hey, You Know What You Should Do? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. Watch Battlestar Galactic (x2)   You should immediately watch the 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica! BSG is not the cheesy science fiction show you think it is. It’s a gritty military drama about human nature that just happens to be set in space. Sure it involves murderous androids bent on genocide, epic space battles, and the last bastion of humanity running for their lives across the galaxies. And ok there’s also mythical prophesies at work, angels helping the cause and a race that has conquered immortality. So really it just depends on your definition of cheesy. There are no aliens, just the morally ambiguous Cylons, a race of androids who develop consciousness and turn on their creators.  They succeed in decimating all inhabitable planets and most of the human race.  They’ve evolved past their clunky robotic forms into ones that mimic humans, complete with emotions, nerve endings and a fiercely devout religious culture – sometimes it feels like this development was instituted solely for shots of hot robot action but is that really a downside? Over the course of four seasons the Cylons evolve past rudimentary characters with a group mind to fledgling souls struggling with their place in the universe and the destruction they originally set upon with such abandon. The series revolves around the last fifty thousand survivors trying to hold on to civilization on board a rag tag group of spaceships searching out new planet to call home.  At its heart BSG is about people thrust into desperate situations and the terrible choices they have to make for survival.   After a steady diet of Gene Roddenberry’s picture of the future it’s a grim portrayal, but it’s a refreshing edginess that holds the hint of actual possibility.-AS   Have you ever watched a show that made…

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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN

THE TOP TEN ROMANTIC COMEDIES RELEASED IN OUR LIFETIME   10. MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING At a time when I was graduating college, watching edgy indy movies, and altogether eschewing anything traditional or romantic, My Big Fat Greek Wedding came out.  It looked dumb, but then again I was kinda falling in love with…

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The Pop Filter Top Ten

The Top Ten Rock Chicks 10. MAMA CASS Cass Elliot, better known as Mama Cass, is something of an anomaly in the world of rock and roll for more than a few reasons. Most notably, she has a classically exquisite alto/tenor voice not often found in the world of rock. She’s difficult to distinguish in…

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Reality Bites: Man vs. Wild

Television for the week of July 10th In November 2007 the Writers Guild of America got their panties in a bunch about not getting access to the good table at craft services or some shit and went on strike for four months. A lack of new programming left a void bigger than Oprah’s Minge in…

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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN

THE TOP TEN LAMEST VILLAINS   10. SUPER SHREDDER “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” is a dumptruck full of awful from start to finish. But it’s the third act of the “film” that refuses to quit trying to out-lame itself. It all begins with Vanilla Ice serenading our boys with…

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FUCK THAT CALF!

FUCK THAT CALF! Not everything is sacred.     THE BOONDOCK SAINTS Let’s go back to the early 2000s and remember a time when a little movie that could took the home video market by storm.  This flick was slick as hell and had dude bros everywhere in an uproar over how awesome it was.…

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