My celebrity’s in Jeopardy, baby, ooooh-ooh-ooh-ooh! (CREDIT: ABC/Screenshot)
You could call this show “Very Funny,” based on a common skill set among its champions.
What is… Celebrity Jeopardy!?!
That’s Auntertainment! Celebrity Jeopardy Mini-Episode
February 19, 2023
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Best Super Bowl LVII Commercial(s)
February 17, 2023
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I Can Haz Sooper Bowl Kumercial? (CREDIT:
Made by Google/Screenshot)
Usually I post my list of favorite Super Bowl the night of The Big Game or the morning after. But this year, I decided to wait a few days and see what stuck with me. Because, after all, the really truly madly deeply classic commercials are the ones that you can’t get out of your head.
Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 2/17/23
February 17, 2023
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television Animaniacs, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Back to School with Gus Johnson, Caroline Polachek, Desire I Want to Turn Into You, Emily, Hello Tomorrow!, Jeopardy!, Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament, Last Week Tonight, Marlowe, Movies for Grownups Awards, Oscar Nominated Shorts, Quest for Fire, Return to Seoul, Skrillex Leave a comment
Billy Crudup doing the Apple thing (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
–Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
–Emily (Theaters)
–Marlowe (Theaters) – Liam Neeson plays Philip Marlowe.
-Oscar Nominated Shorts (Theaters)
–Return to Seoul (Theaters)
TV
-AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards (February 17 on PBS)
–Animaniacs Reboot Season 3 (February 17 on Hulu)
–Hello Tomorrow! Series Premiere (February 17 on Apple TV+) – Retrofuturism … on the moon!
–Back to School with Gus Johnson (February 18 on FOX) – Sportscaster taps into his inner Billy Madison.
–Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Season 10 Premiere (February 19 on HBO)
–Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament (February 20-March 9; check local listings)
Music
-Caroline Polachek, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
-Skrillex, Quest for Fire
Oh Bother, It’s Time for ‘Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’!
February 16, 2023
Cinema Amber Doig-Thorne, Chris Cordell, Craig David Dowsett, Danielle Ronald, Danielle Scott, Maria Taylor, May Kelly, Natasha Rose Mills, Natasha Tosini, Nikolai Leon, Paula Coiz, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie the Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 1 Comment
NOT PICTURED: Winnie the Pooh (CREDIT: Altitude Films/Screenshot)
Starring: Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Natasha Rose Mills, Amber Doig-Thorne, Danielle Ronald, Natasha Tosini, Paula Coiz, May Kelly, Danielle Scott
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: February 15, 2023 (Theaters)
I think Christopher Robin took a wrong turn somewhere.
This is not our beautiful Pooh! This is not our beautiful Hundred Acre Wood!
Is that a Candyman influence I see? Maybe he and Pooh just independently have a thing for bees.
Where was Eeyore?
Grade: “Oh Bother” Times Infinity
‘Emily’ Taps Into Some of That Patented Brontë Passion
February 16, 2023
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Emily, not the Criminal (CREDIT: Bleecker Street)
Starring: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver-Jackson Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Githing, Adrian Dunbar, Gemma Jones
Director: Frances O’Connor
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Rating: R for Opium and Heaving Bosoms
Release Date: February 17, 2023 (Theaters)
What’s It About?: Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) has a terrible case of Middle Child Syndrome! Her older sister Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) calls her “the Strange One,” while their younger sister Anne (Amelia Gething) seems to skate by without anyone giving her guff for anything. Why can’t they just leave her be? They’ve all got the literary bug, after all! At least Emily can lean on her similarly misunderstood brother Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) for support. And then there are her explosive French lessons with her tutor William Weightman (Oliver-Jackson Cohen), which eventually erupt into something stunningly passionate. Meanwhile, Brontë patriarch Patrick (Adrian Dunbar) just doesn’t seem to understand any of his children.
What Made an Impression?: Despite being an English major, I don’t have much experience with the work of the Brontë sisters, and Emily forced me to take stock of what I do know about them. I’m aware that Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, and I’ve seen the 2011 adaptation of that one starring Mia Wasikowska and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Meanwhile, when I hear the name “Anne Brontë,” the first thing I think of is the time that Jeopardy! champ Roger Craig quadrupled his score in the span of two clues. And of course I’ve heard that Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, but the only one of its many adaptations that I’ve ever seen is the semaphore version from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
This is all to say that I came into Emily as a bit of a blank slate! Or at least something close to it. I was completely unfamiliar with Ms. Middle Brontë’s “Strange One” reputation, and let me tell you: I thought it was a bunch of baloney! And I think that was the reaction that writer-director Frances O’Connor was going for. So mission accomplished there on revising the historical record.
Other than that, Emily struck me as a fairly typical example of both a pastoral English period piece and a literary biography. Which is to say: filled with internal distress and verdant passion that can’t quite match the fictional output of its subject. But then we get into the love affair, and oh my, is it a lot more explicit than I was expecting! Let’s just say, that R rating is earned. I won’t ever underestimate you again, cast and crew of Emily.
Emily is Recommended If You Like: Bodice-ripping
Grade: 3 out of 5 Cliffs
‘Of an Age’ is Low-Key, Queer, and Australian. But What Does That Mean for You, the Viewer?
February 15, 2023
Cinema, Movie Reviews Elias Anton, Goran Stolevski, Hattie Hook, Of an Age, Thom Green Leave a comment
They’re herrrrre! (CREDIT: Ben King / © Of An Age Films Pty Ltd)
Starring: Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook
Director: Goran Stolevski
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Rating: R for A Sexual Awakening or Two
Release Date: February 17, 2023 (Theaters)
What’s It About?: Life as a teenage Serbian immigrant in 1999 Australia may not be the most ideal scenario for coming out of the closet. (Of course, what even is an ideal scenario?) But sometimes you have an unexpected experience that forces you to admit who you really are. That’s what happens to Kol (Elias Anton) on a day that starts about as disastrously as possible. His friend and ballroom dancing partner Ebony (Hattie Hook) is lost in the middle of nowhere after a drunken night out, so Kol enlists her older brother Adam (Thom Green) to help track her down in a quixotic bid to get to their performance in time. A fitting choreographic conclusion might not be in the cards, but when Adam offhandedly mentions that his ex was a guy, Kol’s conception of his own world suddenly opens up exponentially.
What Made an Impression?: As far as tragic queer romances go, Of an Age is hardly revolutionary, but it’s certainly heartfelt. And frankly, it could’ve been a lot more tragic. It’s not exactly a spoiler to reveal that Kol and Adam’s story isn’t a simple fairy tale “happily ever after.” But the 21st century offers the potential of plenty of fulfillment for both of them. This might not be the story of meeting The One against seemingly insurmountable odds, but it is a story about a formative experience that’s worth telling.
But I’m going to be honest with you: my enjoyment of Of an Age had relatively little to do with whether or not any attractions were or weren’t consummated, and a whole lot more to do with Kol and Ebony annihilating the dancefloor to the tune of Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater” when we zip ahead to her wedding in 2010. Ebony is a piece of work, but she’s the kind of piece of work who you look back at and go, “You know what? I’m glad we met when we did and that we’ve kept in touch all these years.” And “Maneater” is a bop that simply cannot be resisted no matter how much you’re struggling with your identity.
Of an Age is Recommended If You Like: Sheilas
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 House Parties
‘All Quiet on the Western Lunch’ (JK, It’s ‘Front,’ But I Am Hungry)
February 14, 2023
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How QUIET is it?! (CREDIT: Reiner Bajo/Netflix)
Starring: Felix Kammerrer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Adrian Grünewald, Edin Hasanovic, Daniel Brühl, Thibault de Montalembert, Devid Striesow, Andreas Döhler, Sebastian Hülk
Director: Edward Berger
Running Time: 147 Minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: October 7, 2022 (Theaters)/October 28, 2022 (Netflix)
I finally got around to seeing All Quiet on the Western Front to make sure I caught all the Best Picture nominees. It was playing at the Alamo Drafthouse, so I ordered a milkshake topped with a giant cookie and some donut holes. As it turns out, you CAN enjoy the sweetest of desserts while watching the deadliest of war flicks. (Although it is worth noting that I finished it up before the most gruesome sequences.) I’m pretty sure I read the book years ago for school, but I don’t remember much about it. I was reminded of 1917: World War I, technical achievements, not much else.
Grade: The Milkshake Was Great!
That’s Auntertainment! Karaoke Korner 33
February 12, 2023
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How about this: Dad/Brother Bob has already provided a Karaoke Korner setlist, and now he’s BACK with another.
Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 2/10/23
February 10, 2023
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Sports, Television Animal Control, Consecration, Let Her Burn, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Paramore, Puppy Bowl, Rebecca Black, Somebody I Used to Know, Super Bowl, The Masked Singer, This Is Why, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, Yo La Tengo Leave a comment
𝄞Now you’re just somebody that I used to know from one of the best TV shows of all time!𝄞 (CREDIT: Amazon Prime Video)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Consecration (Theaters) – A religiously themed horror movie starring Jena Malone.
–Magic Mike’s Last Dance (Theaters)
–Somebody I Used to Know (February 10 on Amazon Prime) – Husband-wife team Alison Brie and Dave Franco wrote a screenplay together. Danny Pudi is in the cast, too.
–Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (Fathom Events Screenings Beginning February 15) – Oh bother, Pooh Bear is in the public domain now.
TV
-Puppy Bowl XIX (February 12 on Animal Planet) – This year’s edition will be simulcast on Discovery Channel, TBS, HBO Max, and discovery+.
–The Masked Singer Season 9 Premiere (February 15 on FOX)
–Animal Control Series Premiere (February 16 on FOX) – Starring Joel McHale and animals.
Music
-Paramore, This Is Why
-Rebecca Black, Let Her Burn – Yes, that Rebecca Black.
-Yo La Tengo, This Stupid World
Sports
-Super Bowl LVII (February 12 on FOX) – Rihanna at halftime.
jmunney’s Favorite Albums of 2022
February 10, 2023
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Before publishing this list, I listened to each of these albums again to make sure that I still liked them. And I did! (But there was one other that I had on my preliminary list that I ultimately decided I didn’t like enough to include. Bonus points if you can guess what it was.)
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