Fri
27
Aug

Out and About: Weekend Picks

1:57 pm

Photo by geoff.greene FRIDAY FOOD & DRINK: The Michigan Rare Craft Beer Blowout is the fifth and final D.C. Beer Week event from The Big Hunt (1345 Connecticut Avenue NW). Reps from four Michigan craft breweries will be in attendance along with some special beers, including: Founders CBS and Nemesis, New Holland Beerhive and Imperial Hatter, Jolly Pumpkin Callabazza Blanca amd Weizen Bam, and an …

Thu
26
Aug

Jesse Stone: No Remorse

6:51 am

Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM The Jesse Stone TV-movies have been a fixture on CBS evenings for around a half-decade now. Personally, I’m shocked, the series is closing in on its seventh installment, not because of the quality, but because of the usually fickle attitude executives have to steady, competent programming. I’m neither familiar with the series of novels by Robert B. Parker, some of …

NEW YORK - The last time The Kids in the Hall performed for the cameras was their 1996 feature, “Brain Candy.” Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS.

Laughs? Chuckles, more like. Still, this miniseries about small-town murder provides context for the Canadian quintet’s character comedy. Like getting into the Beatles via their later solo albums, I came at the Canadian comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall, whose self-titled series ran from 1989 to 1995 on HBO and CBS, late and backward, through the individual work of members Dave Foley …

Laughs? Chuckles, more like. Still, this miniseries about small-town murder provides context for the Canadian quintet’s character comedy. Like getting into the Beatles via their later solo albums, I came at the Canadian comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall, whose self-titled series ran from 1989 to 1995 on HBO and CBS, late and backward, through the individual work of members Dave Foley …

NEW YORK The last time The Kids in the Hall performed for the cameras was their 1996 feature, “Brain Candy.” Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS. Though the members have dispersed to pursue individual projects, they returned for more Kid stuff in the form of live comedy tours, most recently in 2008. Now they’re back on TV …

The Kids in the Hall last performed for the cameras was their 1996 feature, “Brain Candy.” Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS. Though the members have dispersed to pursue individual projects, they returned for more Kid stuff in the form of live comedy tours, most recently in 2008. Now they’re back on TV screens in “The …

The last time The Kids in the Hall performed for the cameras was their 1996 feature, “Brain Candy.” Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS. Though the members have dispersed to pursue individual projects, they returned for more Kid stuff in the form of live comedy tours, most recently in 2008.

The last time The Kids in the Hall performed for the cameras was their 1996 feature, “Brain Candy.” Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS.

Tue
20
Jul

First Trailer for FASTER

3:59 am

The first teaser trailer for Faster has appeared online courtesy of CBS Films and Yahoo Movies. Check it out below, Maniacs. Set to be Dwayne Johnson’s return to the action genre, the film also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace…