Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 5/31/24

May 31, 2024

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Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
–Ezra (Theaters) – Some notable names in the cast, so it might be worth checking out.
–Handling the Undead (Theaters)
–In a Violent Nature (Theaters)
–Robot Dreams (Theaters)

TV
–Name That Tune Season Premiere (June 3 on FOX)
–The 1% Club Series Premiere (June 3 on FOX) – New game show hosted by Patton Oswalt.
–The Acolyte Series Premiere (June 4 on Disney+) – Another new Star Wars show.
–Clipped Miniseries Premiere (June 4 on Hulu) – The Downfall of Donald Sterling

Music
-Bat for Lashes, The Dream of Delphi
-Maya Hawke, Chaos Angel
-Crowded House, Gravity Stairs

Sports
-NBA Finals (Begins June 6 on ABC)

Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 5/24/24

May 24, 2024

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It’s a hit, man! (CREDIT: Netflix © 2024)

Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
–Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Theaters)
–Hit Man (May 24 in Theaters, June 7 on Netflix) – Glen Powell starring role.

TV
-“South Park: The End of Obesity” (May 24 on Paramount+)
–My Adventures with Superman Season 2 Premiere (May 25 on Adult Swim)
–Beat Shazam Season Premiere (May 28 on FOX)
–The Quiz with Balls Series Premiere (May 28 on FOX) – SNL alum (Jay Pharoah) hosts a new game show.

Music
-Lenny Kravitz, Blue Electric Light
-twenty one pilots, Clancy

Sports
-French Open (May 26-June 9 on Tennis Channel, NBC, and Peacock)
-U.S. Women’s Open (May 30-June 2 on USA, Peacock, and NBC) – The golf version.

Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Jake Gyllenhaal/Sabrina Carpenter

May 19, 2024

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A Trio of 49-Year-Olds (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.

Congratulations, everybody! We made it to the end of another shenanigan-filled year of Saturday Night Live. The finale of Season 49 was hosted by none other than Jake Gyllenhaal (who will always be “Joe Geronimo” to me), with musical guest duties fulfilled by Sabrina Carpenter, who is also recognized for his acting resume.

For this review, I’ll be assessing each sketch in honor of a frequent SNL guest by asking that eternal question: Would Drew Barrymore Like That?

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 5/17/24

May 17, 2024

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Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
–Babes (Theaters)
–Back to Black (Theaters)
–IF (Theaters)
–The Strangers: Chapter 1 (Theaters)

TV
–RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 9 Premiere (May 17 on Paramount+)
-Marvel Studios’ Assembled: The Making of X-Men ’97 (May 22 on Disney+) – I don’t always watch these BTS docs, but I do when they’re about X-Men ’97.
–Don’t Forget the Lyrics Season Premiere (May 23 on FOX)
–Evil Season 4 Premiere (May 23 on Paramount+) – To be followed by a mini Season 5 (the Final Season) soon thereafter).

Music
-Cage the Elephant, Neon Pill
-Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft
-Beth Gibbons, Lives Outgrown – Lead singer of Portishead.
-Slash, Orgy of the Damned

Sports
-Preakness Stakes (May 18 on NBC)

Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Maya Rudolph/Vampire Weekend

May 14, 2024

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A Bloody Good Time (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.

Hello, mother (Maya Rudolph). Hello, father (Lorne Michaels?). Here I am, reviewing SNL a little later than I usually do, as I was at a destination wedding on Saturday and then traveling by plane, train, and automobile on Sunday. But as of Monday evening, I’ve finally watched the 19th episode of Season 49! It featured showbiz veterans in the form of Ms. Maya Rudolph and Misters Vampire Weekend.

Instead of sticking to a discrete theme for this review, I’m just going to provide quick thoughts for each sketch and segment, but still with my signature wacky style.

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 5/10/24

May 10, 2024

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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)

Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Dua Lipa/Dua Lipa

May 5, 2024

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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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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 5/3/24

May 3, 2024

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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)

Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 4/26/24

April 26, 2024

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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

Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Ryan Gosling/Chris Stapleton

April 14, 2024

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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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