May 10, 2024
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Sports, Television
Can We Please Have Fun, Child Within the Man, Doctor Who, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Kings of Leon, Lacrosse, PGA Championship, Sebastian Bach, The Simpsons, The Tonight Show, TIME100, Young Sheldon
Oh, Ncut! (CREDIT: Disney+)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Theaters)
TV
–Doctor Who Season 14 Premiere (May 10 on Disney+)
–The Simpsons: May the 12 Be With You (May 10 on Disney+)
-TIME100: The World’s Best Influential People (May 12 on ABC)
-Best of The Tonight Show: 10 Years of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (May 14 on NBC) – Retrospective.
–Young Sheldon Series Finale (May 16 on CBS) – When does Old Sheldon premiere?
Music
-Sebastian Bach, Child Within the Man
-Kings of Leon, Can We Please Have Fun
Sports
-NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament (May 10-26 on the ESPN family of channels)
-PGA Championship (May 16-19 on ESPN and CBS)
May 5, 2024
jmunney
Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps, Television
Dua Lipa, Saturday Night Live Season 49, SNL, SNL Season 49
Do a Lipa Day (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
I enjoy Dua Lipa, and apparently Saturday Night Live does too. Because after serving as musical guest for a couple of episodes, she’s now reached that rarefied territory of being host and musical guest on the very same show. It’s an interesting choice, because while she’s not exactly known for comedy and she hasn’t done a ton of acting, she is pretty sharp. She strikes me as the kind of a person who can read a comedy script and immediately recognize what is funny about it and then go ahead and emphasize the exact right words.
For my review of this episode, I’m going to go ahead and utilize that old standby strategy of mine and transcribe the notes I took while watching.
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May 3, 2024
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Sports, Television
Dark Matter, Dua Lipa, Evil Does Not Exist, I Saw the TV Glow, John Carpeneter, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A., Kentucky Derby, Lacrosse, Lost Themes IV: Noir, Radical Optimism, Reasonable Woman, Reginald the Vampire, Sia, Tarot, The Fall Guy, The Phantom Menace, Unfrosted
Darkness on the Edge of Matter and on the Edgerton (CREDIT: Apple TV+)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Evil Does Not Exist (Theaters)
–The Fall Guy (Theaters)
–I Saw the TV Glow (Theaters)
–The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Re-Release (Theaters) – I probably won’t have enough time to see this, but I wanted to alert everyone else.
–Tarot (Theaters)
–Unfrosted (May 3 on Netflix) – Pop-Tarts. Seinfeld.
TV
-John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. (May 3 and May 6-10 on Netflix)
–Dark Matter Series Premiere (May 8 on Apple TV+) – I really liked the book that this is based on.
–Reginald the Vampire Season 2 Premiere (May 8 on Syfy)
Music
-John Carpenter, Lost Themes IV: Noir
-Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism
-Sia, Reasonable Woman
Sports
-Kentucky Derby (May 4 on NBC)
-NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament (May 8-27 on the ESPN family of channels)
April 26, 2024
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
All Born Screaming, Boy Kills World, Challengers, Colin Jost, Hyperdrama, Jeopardy! Masters, Justice, Nonetheless, Pet Shop Boys, St. Vincent, The Real Story of Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office, White House Correspondents Dinner
Daaaaaa Bates (CREDIT: PBS/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Boy Kills World (Theaters)
–Challengers (Theaters) – I’ve enjoyed “S&M” in the trailer.
TV
-White House Correspondents’ Dinner (April 27 on C-SPAN) – Colin Jost hosts.
–The Real Story of Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office (April 28 on PBS)
–Jeopardy! Masters Season 2 Premiere (May 1 on ABC)
Music
-Justice, Hyperdrama
-Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless
-St. Vincent, All Born Screaming
April 14, 2024
jmunney
Television, Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps
Chris Stapleton, Ryan Gosling, Saturday Night Live Season 49, SNL, SNL Season 49
This moment will be stapled in my mind forever (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky”1 theme.
Former SNL cast member Kristen Wiig joined the Five-Timers Club last week, and now the next new episode features some returning favorites in the guest lineup, with host Ryan Gosling and musical guest Chris Stapleton. When the April shows were announced, I wondered if this would be a once-in-a-lifetime case of two five-timer inductions two episodes in a row. But in fact, this is only Gosling’s third host outing. (I guess his previous appearances just loom inordinately large in my memory.)
This is also Stapleton’s third time as the musical guest.
Since one of Gosling’s most notable accomplishments in the past year is his performance of the song “I’m Just Ken” in the motion picture Barbie and on the Oscars stage, I will be reviewing each sketch with the format “I’m just…”, in which I proclaim how each segment made me react in stark, forthright terms.
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April 12, 2024
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Podcasts, Sports, Television
Arcadian, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston Marathon, Civil War, Conan O'Brien Must Go, Don't Forget Me, Ghost Stories, girl in red, I'm Doing It Again Baby!, Maggie Rogers, Mark Knopfler, Newcomers, One Deep River, Podcasts, Sasquatch Sunset, Sting, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Tori Kelly, Tori.
Look at him go! (CREDIT: Max/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Arcadian (Theaters) – Nicolas Cage. And Jaeden Martell, too.
–Civil War (Theaters)
–Sasquatch Sunset (Theaters)
–Sting (Theaters) – I was just checking the release calendar and noticed this intriguing spider horror movie, which I hadn’t heard about previously.
TV
–Conan O’Brien Must Go (April 18 on Max)
Music
-Blue Öyster Cult, Ghost Stories
-girl in red, I’m Doing It Again Baby!
-Tori Kelly, Tori. – This came out last week, but somehow I missed it then.
-Mark Knopfler, One Deep River
-Maggie Rogers, Don’t Forget Me
Podcasts
–The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast – Talkin’ ’bout Digital Shorts.
–Newcomers Season Premiere – Lauren and Nicole are talking Martin Scorsese!
Sports
-Boston Marathon (April 15 on ESPN2)
April 7, 2024
jmunney
Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps, Television
SNL, Saturday Night Live, Kristen Wiig, SNL Season 49, Saturday Night Live Season 49, Raye
Quicker than a Raye of Wiig (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Wowee zowee! Kristen Carroll Wiig has now hosted Saturday Night Live a handful of times! I remember when she was just a Saturday Night Live cast member. In her most recent outing as the master of ceremonies, she was joined by musical guest Raye. I’ve heard the name, but I don’t think I’ve heard the songs, so hopefully we’re in for some fun surprises.
Since this episode aired on the first weekend of April 2024, I will review each sketch by asking “Is this a good sketch for spring?”
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April 5, 2024
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Sports, Television
A La Sala, Housekeeping for Beginners, Khruangbin, Kim's Video, Monkey Man, Mr. Bates vs the Post Office, Ohio Players, Only God Was Above Us, The Black Keys, The First Omen, The Masters, The People's Joker, Vampire Weekend
Going Postal (CREDIT: ITV/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–The First Omen (Theaters)
–Housekeeping for Beginners (Theaters)
–Kim’s Video (Theaters)
–Monkey Man (Theaters)
–The People’s Joker (Theaters)
TV
–Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office Miniseries Premiere (April 7 on PBS) – This aired in the U.K. earlier this year and I’ve heard good buzz.
Music
-The Black Keys, Ohio Players
-Khruangbin, A La Sala
-Vampire Weekend, Only God Was Above Us
Sports
-The Masters (April 11-14 on ESPN and CBS)
March 31, 2024
jmunney
Television, Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps
Ramy Youssef, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live Season 49, SNL, SNL Season 49, Travis Scott
Holy of holies (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates! (Because this review is being posted on Easter Sunday)
Happy Ramadan to those who observe it! (Because we’re currently in the midst of Ramadan and because SNL host Ramy Youssef is Muslim)
And Happy Passover to those who celebrate! (That one hasn’t started yet this year, but I just completed my annual rewatch of “A Rugrats Passover” yesterday.)
All right, that’s enough goofing around. Let’s get to this review of the March 30, 2024 episode of Saturday Night Live, with host Ramy Youssef and musical guest Travis Scott. Because it’s Easter Weekend, I’m going to resurrect an old reliable reviewing strategy and transcribe the notes I wrote in my notebook while watching the episode.
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March 29, 2024
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter, La chimera, Rugrats, Rugrats Passover
Part-y! (CREDIT: Nickelodeon/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–La chimera (Theaters)
TV
-“A Rugrats Passover” (Available to Stream on Paramount+) – A springtime viewing tradition of mine!
Music
-Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter
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