Author Archives: Jon Magne

The Endies of Cinematic Proportions, the 2009 Edition

By Jon Magne | Published: January 30, 2010
Welcome, welcome, yes, settle down now. I’m so glad you could all make it to the annual award blog, where we celebrate all that was worth celebrating about the year that was in cinema. Your host tonight will be – yes, you guessed – this italic version of myself, who, aside from having a slightly [...]
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Friday Night Lights

By Jon Magne | Published: January 19, 2010
Oy! What’s this, then? Friday Night Lights is a televised drama series produced for NBC. It’s currently in its fourth season, with the fifth (and possibly last) season beginning in April (these last two seasons are only 13 episodes long). It revolves around a high school football coach in the a small town in Texas, as [...]
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The Endies! TV! 2009! (Exclamation Mark!)

By Jon Magne | Published: December 28, 2009
Christmas Day brought me my final little slice of TV of 2009, so it’s about time to take look back on year that was and make some sly, unfounded judgements based solely on my highly subjective point of view. I wouldn’t call the Endies! an award or something like that; they’re more like a nod [...]
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“Plastic Jesus”, As Played On a Banjo With a Broken Heart

By Jon Magne | Published: December 26, 2009
“Well, I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus, sittin’ on the dashboard of my car. Comes in colors, pink and pleasant, glows in the dark cause it’s iridescent. Take it with you when you travel far. Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones sittin’ on a pedestal of abalone shell. Goin’ ninety, [...]
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By Jon Magne | Published: December 20, 2009
To say I love films of every creed & colour would be blatant lie. I don’t, for example, get my knickers in a twist when a new Twilight movie flashes its cute teeth, and I can easily contain myself when Michael Bay wanks his robots all over my screen. What I do love though, is [...]
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Sometimes There’s Something to Be Said About Not Saying Something

By Jon Magne | Published: December 17, 2009
“The rest of the summer passed in a hallucination of lush green meadows and haymaking; of barley fields and harvesting; and of humid afternoons and sudden thunderstorms. Frank had such little impact on his environment, and the passage of day into night and back into day again made life seem so ephemeral and indiscriminate, that [...]
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I Realize Now That I Should’ve Been Stalking You Since I Was Two Years Old

By Jon Magne | Published: December 13, 2009
And by “stalking”, I of course mean waiting silently in the wings, watching every move you make. Everyone you talk to. Everyone you’ve ever talked to, for that matter. Watching… … everything. And by “you”, I of course don’t mean you. Let’s not kid ourselves, here. You? You’re no fun. I could go as far as following [...]
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The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me

By Jon Magne | Published: December 8, 2009
The piano has been drinking My necktie’s asleep The combo went back to New York, and left me all alone The jukebox has to take a leak Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut? And the spotlight looks just like a prison break And the telephone’s out of cigarettes As usual the balcony’s on the make And the piano has been [...]
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The List: The Listening, or, A Title That Makes Sense (The TV Edition)

By Jon Magne | Published: November 23, 2009
You guys know I love lists. In fact, I’m pretty sure I lovey-dovey them. They do so many things so very well; they make things easy to read (unlike sentences with semi-colons) & they feel no need to justify their existence. Well, at least until someone takes umbrage with your list, demanding a reason for [...]
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“He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”

By Jon Magne | Published: November 21, 2009
“The realist in murder writes of a world in which gangsters can rule nations and almost rule cities, in which hotels and apartment houses and celebrated restaurants are owned by men who made their money out of brothels, in which a screen star can be the fingerman for a mob, and the nice man down [...]
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