It’s that time of year: The days are getting longer, Hollywood Boulevard is blocked off between Orange and Highland for a week, publicists are readying contingency campaigns, and umpteen thousand Oscar picks flood the interwebs. Your friends can keep their “reviewers” and “award experts.” I’m consulting one of the most established oracles there is: The [...]

Conan O’Brien’s new show starts tonight on TBS. Here’s what you need to know…

We’re big baseball fans here at RCC, so tonight, we’ll be glued to our various media devices as we watch the Rangers start their come-from-behind drive to snatch the World Series from the Giants. (Right, guys? Don’t blow this one. Every Dodger fan in the world is counting on you. No pressure.) But then, we’ll [...]

Suppose they gave an awards show and no one cared. That’s the situation that the Daytime Emmys have been facing for years. The Daytime Emmys cover pretty much everything that’s on before 8pm (7pm Central): soaps, game shows, morning news, children’s programming, syndicated talkers – all those shows that don’t register in the ratings, because [...]

Some sequels never should have happened: Staying Alive. The Exorcist II. Blues Brothers 2000. It’s not so much that the movies sucked, though they did; it’s more that the originals wrapped up their stories so neatly that we didn’t need to see what came next, and the studios’ insistence on doing so takes away the [...]

This was a very long episode, and this is going to be a pretty rough recap. If you just want answers, skip to the end. My feelings will be a little hurt that you didn’t read my oh-so-carefully spurted words, but you can always go back and read the whole thing when you’re ready to [...]

Let’s just say this now: You’re not going to be completely satisfied with the finale of “Lost.” No one is. And, honey? That’s life. Some mysteries are never going to be solved. Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved. We may never know where JImmy Hoffa is buried, who killed Elizabeth Short, or what Bill [...]

Previously: A lot of stuff happened. If you don’t know what all that stuff is, you’d better start watching those DVDs. Most immediately previously, Sun, Jin and Sayid died, and you totally cried. ISLAND TIMELINE It’s the morning after the night before on the beach. Flotsam from the sub washes up on the shore while [...]

You guys, I have no idea how to recap this one. I’m still not sure how they managed to make it into a whole hour-long episode. It was short on plot, and while it delivered answers, it was nothing that couldn’t have been accomplished in three minutes of NotLocke soliloquy. But I’ll try, because I [...]

Previously: Some stuff happened. We don’t have time to get into that now. The episode’s already running long. Island Timeline Jack comes to in a beached canoe. Rough night at the Kitty? Sayid’s there, and fills Jack in, inasmuch as there’s anything to fill him in on. NotLocke arrives to add that there’s this little [...]