Media Decay

NYC 22

Jason F — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:20:29 +0000

NYC 22 is about a group of rookie cops of many backgrounds foot patrolling in NYC’s 22nd precinct in upper Manhattan. They quickly discover the ups and downs of the job and the neighborhood. My first thought upon seeing the ads for NYC 22 was that I’d seen this show before. In fact I enjoy it. It’s [...]

Cherry (2010)

Jason F — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:33:09 +0000

Cherry is a movie about a young freshman at an Ivy League university (Gallner; Veronica Mars) who winds up developing a crush on an older woman (Allen; Awake, Terriers) who is also a student at the school. The two develop a friendship and she takes him home to meet her daughter (Robertson; Life Unexpected, The Secret [...]

The Avengers

Jason F — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:53:57 +0000

The Avengers is the culmination of a multiple film and year build up by Marvel and Universal. When earth is threatened by Loki, various heroes must unite to fight to save it and put their individual problems aside to work together. It’s both written and directed by Joss Whedon with an all-star cast. I’m a [...]

Hit So Hard Premiere and After Party April 13th

Jason F — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:48:53 +0000

Tonight the documentary Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel made it’s theatrical debut. If I’m correct it’s open in NYC only this weekend with a wider rollout coming on April 20th. But check the official site to be sure. We reviewed the movie when it played last summer at a festival, to [...]

The Cabin in the Woods

Jason F — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:00:07 +0000

The Cabin in the Woods is a classic horror tale of what happens when a group of teenagers venture deep into the woods to an old cabin for a weekend of debauchary. And then comes the killing. Except it’s also none of that. The fact is the true plot of Cabin in the Woods would [...]

Don’t Trust The B—- in Apt 23

Jason F — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:15:41 +0000

Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23 is a new sitcom about June (Walker; Gossip Girl) who arrives in NYC with a fiancé and a huge apartment paid for by her new job at a finance company. Unfortunately she arrives the day the company goes under. Left with no job and no home in a strange [...]

Is “Community” the new “The Wire”?

Jason F — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:09:24 +0000

Community and The Wire both are incredibly different shows. One is a wildly wacky half hour comedy on network television and the other is an hour long drama filled with nudity and violence and all the reality you could want that aired on pay cable. But even to a casual viewer there’s more in common [...]

The Magicians

Jason F — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:17:21 +0000

The Magicians is about high school student Quentin Coldwater. Quentin is a smart kid that feels like he’s missing something in his life. He doesn’t really feel like he fits in his world and with his friends. But suddenly he discovers that magic is real and he is being tested for admittance to a magic [...]

The Night Circus

Jason F — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:00:09 +0000

The Night Circus is a magical book about a mysterious circus that appears without warning suddenly during the night and disappears in much the same way. While it’s around it is only open at night and everything is black and white and it features some of the most interesting acts from all over the world. But [...]

Friends With Kids

Jason F — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:38:40 +0000

Friends With Kids is about Jason (Scott; Piranha, Party Down) and Julie (Westfeldt; Kissing Jessica Stein), two best friends who watch as their group of friends have kids and become really unhappy and distant. With both of them getting older and still single, they come up with a plan to have a kid together that they [...]