In our newest columns, we report the most important stories in the pop culture world and give them to you in our classic Smash Cut fashion. If you would like to suggest a story to add to Jump Cuts, just tweet at us with #JumpCuts Happy Halloween Smashers! Here are the biggest Entertainment stories from…
Last time I saw Prawn they were absolutely killing it at The Studio at Webster Hall supporting Hotelier and Foxing. While I didn't know much about them then, it did spawn a slight obsession with the band. Maybe it's just natural to want to support local Jersey bands, but these guys know how to put on…
SPOILERS! It's ridiculous, unrealistic, and wonderfully dark, but also so entertaining. It probably won't win this year at the Emmys, but here are some reasons voters could cast their vote for House of Cards. "One heartbeat away from the presidency and not a single vote cast in my name..." Remember when Frank gave us this…
Reviewing Parenthood is always an interesting prospect for me. Coming up with a score can honestly feel a bit like alchemy. I love this show because it perfectly nails such significant minutiae of family life, like that little shrug Camille gives Julia after Kristina brings Joel on board at the school. You know they are…
“What a Piece of Work Is Man,” indeed. This week’s episode is still over-stuffed, and the pacing is drawn out at times, but it at least features periodic jolts of excitement in most of the ongoing stories. It at least raises stakes, and at least bothers to feign forward momentum on the season’s major arc. The…
Director Justin Simien makes his feature film debut with the satirical drama Dear White People. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; leaving with the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, which was certainly deserved. The movie focuses on several students’ experiences at an Ivy League college during a pseudo- race war. Dear White People…
Punk rock, at its finest, both agitates and puts a smile on your face. Danish band Iceage did that on their previous two albums, New Brigade and You’re Nothing. Both were obliterating affairs dealing with both physical and philosophical anxieties in short, aggressive, and noisy spurts, like a Black Flag for the 21st century. This,…
About two thirds of the way through this week’s Parenthood, Jabbar asks Crosby a deceptively simple question: “How old is Grandpa?” And yet, it’s a question that gets to the heart of this final season. The show is called Parenthood. Confronting the reality that your parents get old is the perfect way to bring everything…
I’m not going to lie, that “three months later” title card pretty much blew my mind the first time I watched this episode. Not because anything particularly shocking happens as a result of it, but because it's the sort of thing that Parenthood wouldn’t typically do in previous seasons. Between seasons, maybe you would see…
It was an odd feeling watching this episode of Penny Dreadful. Up until this point every moment and scene was done to build to the conclusion of the last episode, which saw the assembling of the "monster hunting" team. There was a clear trajectory of every storyline that built upon each other until the series was…
