by Ted McLoof | Jun 2, 2014 | Books, Featured, Ted McLoof
When Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl came out in the summer of 2012, it was an instant success, and we don’t have a lot of those in the book world these days. For books not starring dragons or wizards, or books not part of a series, or books written for anyone...
by Ted McLoof | May 21, 2014 | Featured, Ted McLoof, Television
A recent debate held by Intelligence Squared argued a motion called “Millenials Don’t Stand a Chance.” In it, the usual charges were lobbed at millennials—defined by the debate as Americans born between the years 1980 and 1999, which seemed an awfully wide gap to me,...
by Ted McLoof | May 16, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof
As a teenager in the nineties, I spent a lot of my time (as I’m sure most teenagers in the nineties did) quoting Kevin Smith’s movies. They are after all endlessly quotable, appeal to a specifically teenage—not to say puerile—sensibility, and are laden with nineties...
by Ted McLoof | May 14, 2014 | Featured, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof, Television
Last summer, Jon Stewart took a leave of absence from The Daily Show so that he could helm a film project, and the producers were in a bind: how do you continue The Daily Show with Jon Stewart…without Jon Stewart? They could, of course, have simply put the show on...
by Ted McLoof | Apr 8, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof
Can’t someone be a shit their whole life and repair the damage?” asked Royal Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson’s 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums, “I think people want to hear that.” Except it’s exactly that conviction—that viewers crave characters who change and who grow—that’s...