Kevin McFarland's posts

There is a puzzlingly extensive history in computer-animated films (especially sequels) of stories about confronting…

Game day isn’t always about what happens on the field. Here are 8 football movies that aren’t about the players.

The album may or may not be obsolete, but the fact remains: Listeners have long obsessed over individual songs. The…

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Looking back over episode descriptions from the past few seasons, it’s been at least three years since American Dad…

Kelly Burkhardt is back, and her return has nothing to do with those pesky Fuchsbau coins. Thank goodness for that.

Let Island Of Lemurs be a lesson to all nature documentaries: When the narration services of Morgan Freeman have…

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Stan and Francine having marital troubles is a wearyingly derivative episode premise at this point. It was the…

This week’s question comes from reader Dan Hamann:

Almost five years later, it’s kind of incredible to think that Monk, USA’s longest-running original series (non-WWE…

Welcome to Random Reads, wherein we talk to authors about the characters and stories that defined their careers. The…

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

I can’t count the number of new television episodes I’ve watched since the current broadcast network season began…

Grimm cycles through episodes like “The Show Must Go On” every so often, that sidestep police investigations in…

Lions Gate and Summit Entertainment aren’t hiding the fact that Divergent has been groomed as the next Hunger Games.…

There’s always a Shakespeare film adaptation or two in the pipeline. Sometime later this year Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline

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“3 Acts Of God” exists in a fantasy world where Bill Belichick still coaches the New England Patriots but Tom Brady…

William Shakespeare didn’t do cliffhangers. Even the histories that span multiple plays like the Henriad always…