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SNL Scorecard: Other Than Helen Mirren’s Breasts, A Very Flat Night

Posted on April 10, 2011 by | Leave a comment

There’s really no way to soften the blow here: Helen Mirren’s turn as Saturday Night Live host was a massive disappointment. Flat, flat, flat… everything the whole night — well, except her breasts in one sketch — was flat. Resorting to the tired and meta ” SNL isn’t funny anymore” jokes as early as the cold open reveals a staff that appears to be looking ahead to its three-week break ( SNL , thankfully at this point, doesn’t return until May 7). So, yeah, enjoy your break, guys. Please think of something funny while you’re gone. Meanwhile, on to a very depressing scorecard…

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Who Scored Big in Week 17 of SNL’s Relevancy Poll?

Posted on March 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

This week was the most difficult Saturday Night Live relevancy poll of the season to tabulate. No one cast member dominated the airtime, and with few exceptions, the cast was spread pretty thin throughout the evening. Put it this way: At one point I was thinking, Wow, Abby Elliott is getting a lot of play this week; it sure will be nice to see her finally near the top of the poll. But that faded as it became clear that pretty much everyone got a significant amount of play this week.

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SNL Scorecard: Did Jeff Bridges Host the Best Show of the Year, Son?

Posted on December 19, 2010 by | Comments Off

Perhaps I’m in the holiday spirit (maybe), perhaps it’s the amount of wine consumed from back-to-back holiday parties (more likely), but last night’s Jeff Bridges-hosted installment of Saturday Night Live was, well, quite great. Not the laugh-out-loud funniest show of the season, but, from top to bottom, there wasn’t a whole lot of “bad.” I mean, it was so good that the best sketch of the night was the third to last of the show. Bridges, who last co-hosted in 1983 with his brother Beau, did an admirable job as host but, more importantly, did an admirable job of not getting in the way of a cast that was obviously on a mission before they took a break for the holidays.

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Social Network, Kids Are All Right Get Awards Boost From NY Critics Circle

Posted on December 13, 2010 by | Comments Off

More awards! Hoo-ahhh ! This time it’s the august New York Film Critics circle doing the laurel-fitting, delivering its best-of-2010 prize to the redoubtable Social Network . Like their peers out in Los Angeles , the NYFCC also went with best director David FIncher and best actor Colin Firth; The Kids Are All Right took over from there, winning three prizes including best actress for Annette Bening. Jacki Weaver was cruelly stiffed in supporting actress once again in favor of The Fighter ‘s Melissa Leo, though Animal Kingdom did win best first feature for David Michod. So that’s nice. Click through for the full list of winners.

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Who Scored Big in Week Nine of SNL’s Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Player Relevancy Poll?

Posted on December 13, 2010 by | Comments Off

A strange thing has happened over at 30 Rockefeller Plaza during this season of Saturday Night Live : Bill Hader has usurped Kristen Wiig as SNL ‘s go-to cast member. Oh, sure, Wiig has had her fair share of sketches this season, but it’s becoming increasingly evident that the Man Who Plays Stefon has put the show on his back. Hader wasn’t number one on the Revelancy Poll this weekend, however, but it’s a rare week when he does not appear in the top-five. For reference, this is not one of those weeks.

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Saturday Night Live Scorecard: Was Paul Rudd Once Again Overshadowed by His Musical Guest?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by | Comments Off

Poor Paul Rudd. Last time he hosted SNL , his performance was overshadowed by musical guest Beyoncé (and her “Single Ladies” sketch with Justin Timberlake). This time Rudd had to compete with a Beatle. After a very slow start, the Paul Rudd-hosted edition of SNL recovered into one of the most memorable but wildly unbalanced episodes of the season. Let’s be clear: Rudd did a fine job, but this was Paul McCartney’s episode. Not only did McCartney appear in three different sketches, the former Beatle got four — four! — musical segments: Performing “Jet,” “Band on the Run,” a “Day in the Life”/”Give Peace a Chance” hybrid and “Get Back.” So, how was the rest of the show that didn’t involve McCartney singing? On to the scorecard!

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Watch Cookie Monster Audition for Saturday Night Live

Posted on November 23, 2010 by | Comments Off

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Gift Guide: Essential Reading for Cinephiles and Aspiring Filmmakers

Posted on November 23, 2010 by | Comments Off

The autobiographies of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray are two of the most passionate, heartbreaking and instructive books about filmmaking ever written. Ray is best known for directing James Dean’s iconic performance in Rebel Without a Cause . Fuller made some of the greatest genre movies of the ’50s and ’60s including The Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor . Both novels are compulsively readable, with enough filmmaking advice to replace an entire year of film school and enough insight into both filmmakers’ lives and struggles to captivate even the most casual cinephile.

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Did Funny or Die Steal a Sketch from Saturday Night Live?

Posted on November 23, 2010 by | Comments Off

On Saturday night, SNL aired a Nasim Pedrad starring sketch called “Camel Tame,” a parody commercial on a more effective way to hide unsightly camel toe. Well, touché, SNL , because here comes Funny or Die’s “Cameltoe Shows,” starring Kelly Brook, which takes the SNL idea and stands it on its head. Instead of hiding cameltoe, the Funny or Die version celebrates it — makes it more sightly. But wait, aren’t these pretty much the same sketches? Did one outlet get the idea from the other?