This was the best Key & Peele sketch of 2014.
Jeff "Jmunney" Malone's Self-Styled "Expert" Thoughts on Movies, TV, Music, and the Rest of Pop Culture
January 9, 2015
Best of 2014, Key & Peele, Television, Watch And/Or Listen to This Leave a comment
This was the best Key & Peele sketch of 2014.
January 8, 2015
Television, The Middle, The Middle Episode Reviews Leave a comment
$1 million on Wheel of Fortune? http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jeffrey_Malone/2015/01/08/the-middle-season-6-episode-10-recap-p
January 7, 2015
New Girl, New Girl Episode Reviews, Television Leave a comment
Anyone insecure about their new tailor? http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jeffrey_Malone/2015/01/07/new-girl-season-4-episode-12-recap-sha
January 7, 2015
Music, Watch And/Or Listen to This Leave a comment
The sequel to “Chandelier,” with the return of Maddie Ziegler, and Shia LaBeouf as Viggo Mortensen in The Road.
January 6, 2015
Fuse Top 20 Countdown, Music, Television Leave a comment
Each week, I check out FUSE’s Top 20 countdown, and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality.
Original Version
1. Taylor Swift – “Blank Space”
2. Maroon 5 – “Animals”
3. Tove Lo – “Habits (Stay High)”
4. Hozier – “Take Me to Church”
5. Sam Smith – “I’m Not the Only One”
6. Ed Sheeran – “Don’t”
7. Mr. Probz – “Waves”
8. Ariana Grande ft. The Weeknd – “Love Me Harder”
9. Calvin Harris ft. John Newman – “Blame”
10. Selena Gomez – “The Heart Wants What It Wants”
11. Nick Jonas – “Jealous”
12. Big Sean ft. E40- “IDFWU”
13. I LOVE MAKONNEN ft. Drake – “Tuesday (Remix)”
14. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
15. Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj – “Bang Bang”
16. Chris Brown ft. Usher and Rick Ross – “New Flame”
17. Fall Out Boy – “Centuries”
18. Alesso ft. Tove Lo – “Heroes (We Could Be)”
19. One Direction – “Night Changes”
20. Meghan Trainor – “Lips Are Movin”
Jmunney’s Revision
1. Love Me Harder
2. Take Me to Church
3. Jealous
4. Bang Bang
5. Habits (Stay High)
6. Blank Space
7. Uptown Funk
8. Blame
9. Waves
10. Centuries
11. IDFWU
12. Don’t
13. I’m Not the Only One
14. The Heart Wants What It Wants
15. Heroes (We Could Be)
16. Tuesday (Remix)
17. Animals
18. Night Changes
19. Lips Are Movin
20. New Flame
January 5, 2015
Bob's Burgers, Bob's Burgers Episode Reviews, Television Leave a comment
Lot of halls, and a lot of hair, in this episode: http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jeffrey_Malone/2015/01/05/bobs-burgers-season-5-episode-8-recap-
January 4, 2015
Television, What Won TV? Leave a comment
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – Caught some football
Monday – Jeopardy!
Tuesday – At least we had 13 episodes of Selfie.
Wednesday – Jeopardy!
Thursday – Jeopardy!
Friday – Jeopardy!
Saturday – A little football
January 1, 2015
A Year at the Movies, Cinema 1 Comment
Life had plenty of developments in 2014, so my moviegoing fell far short of any record-setting. I managed to get in a solid holiday rush at the end of the year, but even without that bump, I would have avoided the embarrassment of averaging fewer than one film per week.
(Included with the list of titles are grades, dates, showtimes, theatre locations, and folks I saw the movies with.)
1. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – B- (1/7, 12:10 PM, Regal United Artists Oxford Valley, Langhorne, PA; myself)
2. Frozen – A- (1/8, 12:50 PM, Oxford Valley; myself)
3. The Wolf of Wall Street – B+ (1/10, 7:10 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
4. Lone Survivor – B (1/10, 10:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
5. Her – B+ (1/14, 12:00 PM, Oxford Valley; myself)
6. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones – C (1/16, 12:10 PM, Oxford Valley; myself)
7. Devil’s Due – C+ (1/17, 8:10 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
8. Ride Along – B- (1/24, 8:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
9. August: Osage County – B- (2/6, 12:50 PM, Regal Union Square, New York, NY; myself)
10. The Monuments Men – B- (2/15, 9:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Dave Coyle and Walter Wojcik)
11. The Lego Movie – A (2/16, 1:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone, Sue Malone, Dave Coyle, and Walter Wojcik; also in 3D, 2/27, 8:20 PM, Regal E-Walk, New York, NY; Rob Malone)
12. Dallas Buyers Club – B+ (2/19, 12:10 PM, AMC Loews 19th Street East, New York, NY; myself)
13. How to Be a Man (2/26, 9:30 PM, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY; multiple people)
14. Winter’s Tale – C (2/27, 5:30 PM, E-Walk; Rob Malone)
15. Non-Stop – A- (3/7, 7:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
16. Enemy – B+ (3/20, 1:15 PM, Angelika Film Center, New York, NY; myself)
17. Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 – B+ (3/23, 10:00 PM, City Cinemas 1-2-3, New York, NY; CJ Hanekamp, Laura Jespersen, and Lydia Lovell)
18. 300: Rise of an Empire – C- (3/25, 8:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
19. Divergent – B (3/25, 9:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
20. Sabotage – C- (3/27, 8:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Rob Malone)
21. Noah – B (3/27, 10:05 PM, Oxford Valley; Rob Malone, Dan Dickerson, Walter Wojcik, and Terri Wojcik)
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel – B+ (4/4, 8:20 PM, AMC Loews 34th Street, New York, NY; CJ Hanekamp and Laura Jespersen)
23. Under the Skin – B (4/9, 11:40 AM, Union Square; Rob Malone, Sean Dunn, Blake LaRue, Misha Spivack, and Hunter Steinman)
24. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – B (4/18, 7:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone)
25. Oculus – B+ (5/2, 2:05 PM, E-Walk; myself)
26. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – B- (5/10, 7:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone, Sue Malone, and Kaity Malone)
27. X-Men: Days of Future Past – B+ (5/26, 2:10 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone and Walter Wojcik)
28. Godzilla in 3D – C+ (5/26, 8:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
29. Neighbors – B (5/26, 10:10 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
30. The Fault in Our Stars – C (6/6, 7:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Kaity Malone)
31. Edge of Tomorrow – B+ (6/10, 7:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Rob Malone and Jeff Smith)
32. 22 Jump Street – B (6/13, 8:10 PM, Oxford Valley; Greg Smith, Jeff Smith, and Walter Wojcik)
33. How to Train Your Dragon 2 – B (6/21, 9:20 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
34. Deliver Us From Evil – C (7/2, 7:50 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
35. Jersey Boys – B (7/3, 3:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Claire Dansbury and Grace Stanford)
36. Rifftrax Live: Sharknado (7/15, 7:30 PM, AMC Neshaminy, Bensalem, PA; Walter Wojcik)
37. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – B+ (7/16, 7:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone, Kaity Malone, Lindsay Ruhlin, and Walter Wojcik)
38. Snowpiercer – A- (7/23, 7:00 PM, Neshaminy; Bob Malone and Walter Wojcik)
39. Lucy – B+ (7/26, 7:50 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
40. The Purge: Anarchy – C+ (7/26, 9:55 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
41. Guardians of the Galaxy in 3D – B (8/6, 7:20 PM, Regal Manahawkin, Manahawkin, NJ; Bob Malone, Kaity Malone, Beth Woods, Rory Woods, Wesley Woods, Riley Woods, and Kevin Benner)
42. Rifftrax Live: Godzilla (1998) (8/14, 8:00 PM, Neshaminy; Walter Wojcik)
43. Boyhood – A- (8/19, 6:20 PM, Oxford Valley; Kaity Malone)
44. As Above, So Below – C+ (8/29, 8:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
45. Wetlands – B+ (9/6, 8:00 PM, Angelika; myself)
46. The Hundred-Foot Journey – B (9/13, 5:20 PM, Oxford Valley; Pat Dansbury)
47. The Skeleton Twins – B-/C+ (10/2, 2:30 PM, Neshaminy; myself)
48. Annabelle – B (10/3, 7:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
49. Gone Girl – A (10/3, 9:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
50. John Wick – B- (10/25, 7:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
51. Rifftrax Live: Anaconda (10/30, 8:00 PM, Neshaminy; Walter Wojcik)
52. Interstellar – A- (11/8, 7:40 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
53. Birdman – A- (11/14, 7:25 PM, Neshaminy; Walter Wojcik)
54. Nightcrawler – A- (11/20, 12:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
55. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – B (11/29, 7:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
56. Rifftrax Live: Santa Claus (12/4, 8:00 PM, Neshaminy; Dave Coyle, Meredith Hanrahan, and Walter Wojcik)
57. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – B- (12/17, 7:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
58. Top Five – B+ (12/19, 7:40 PM, Neshaminy; Walter Wojcik)
59. Foxcatcher – B (12/23, 7:05 PM, Neshaminy; Walter Wojcik)
60. The Interview – B- (12/27, YouTube; Rob Malone)
61. The Imitation Game – B (12/30, 4:00 PM, Oxford Valley; Bob Malone, Sue Malone, Claire Dansbury, Pat Dansbury, and Walter Wojcik)
62. Into the Woods – B+ (12/30, 10:30 PM, Oxford Valley; Walter Wojcik)
December 29, 2014
Television, What Won TV? Leave a comment
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – The Affair
Monday – Jeopardy!
Tuesday – Jeopardy!
Wednesday – Jeopardy!
Thursday – Doctor Who
Friday – Jeopardy!
Saturday – SNL Vintage
December 22, 2014
Mulaney, Mulaney Episode Reviews, Television Leave a comment
There was a new episode of Mulaney last night, in case you were wondering: http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jeffrey_Malone/2014/12/22/mulaney-season-1-episode-8-recap-john-