Basketball Wives, Season 2: A Who’s Who of the Cast

Oh, reality TV. How you take up so very much of our time. Over here at Cultist, we love ourselves some unscripted (well, semi-unscripted) drama. Especially when the program involves angry women. First, we had Bad Girls Club and now we have Basketball Wives. And these ladies are a truly…

Tron: Legacy: mumbo-jumbo factor is high

Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s mega-million dollar reboot, Tron: Legacy. The notion of a tragically split persona might have been scripted to give the new movie a measure of emotional gravitas, but why bother with writing when…

The Fighter: a predictable fairy tale

The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but, starring Boston working-class hero Mark Wahlberg, it plays as a Rocky-fied fairy tale for our time: Consigned to Palookaville, a sweet, unassuming boxer with more heart than brains steps up — all…

How Do You Know: Now playing

A brave, odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks, How Do You Know strays as far from a barrel of laughs as a writer-director formed by network television can get without losing his grip altogether. Reese Witherspoon stars, in fetchingly scanty frocks, as a pro-athlete newly cut…

The Chronicles of Narnia: an ailing franchise gets another chance

A massive project, taken up lightly by Disney in the giddy post-Lord of the Rings atmosphere and dropped upon failing to return the requisite billions, this third adaptation from C. S. Lewis’s seven-volume (!) Chronicles of Narnia comes underwritten by a new studio, 20th Century Fox, and with a new…

Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: soft-core tourist porn

Airily disregarding the Hemingway Unadaptability Principle, this quaintly racy version of Papa’s most hated novel has a few bullets in its barrel: Dynasty scion Jack Huston, as the Hem avatar, is dull but physically a perfect fit; the Mediterranean tourist-porn is addictive; and the story, unique in this particular corpus,…

Stocking Stuffer Idea: J-Lo’s Sexy Video

Add Jennifer Lopez’s crotch to the list of things we’re hoping to see in our holiday stocking this year. J-Lo is reportedly trying to stop her ex-husband, Ojai Noa, and his agent, Ed Meyer, from releasing and marketing sexy videos made during the couple’s short-lived marriage, according to Radar Online.In…

From Howard Stern to Family Guy: Best Baba Booey Moments in TV History

On July 26, 1990, Howard Stern called his show producer, Gary Dell’Abate, into the studio, to discuss animation art collecting. Dell’Abate was interested in the growing 90s fad and contemplated buying a Hanna-Barbera piece–either Quick Draw McGraw or his Mexican donkey pal, Baba Looey. However, Dell’Abate didn’t say Baba Looey on…