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ANNA’S ANIME ALCOVE: ‘SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN’ — ‘WEIRD’
November 7, 2016 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Television

ANNA’S ANIME ALCOVE: ‘SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN’ — ‘WEIRD’

In Anna’s Anime Alcove, arts journalist and unapologetic anime enthusiast Anna Gibertini recaps the darkest, most cutting-edge series in the […]

THE JON SNOW EFFECT: AUTHORIAL INTENT AND RESURRECTING DEAD
May 8, 2016 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Literature

THE JON SNOW EFFECT: AUTHORIAL INTENT AND RESURRECTING DEAD

By PJ Grisar WARNING: Here there be Spoilers! On last Sunday’s Game of Thrones, Jon Snow gasped his way out of […]

FIRST WATCH 2015: MEMORABLE FILMS AND TV, OLD AND NEW
December 31, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

FIRST WATCH 2015: MEMORABLE FILMS AND TV, OLD AND NEW

By The Taste Basket Team It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love… with “Best Of” lists. […]

OUR FAVORITE PARTS OF ‘PARKS’: A FAREWELL TO ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’
February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Television

OUR FAVORITE PARTS OF ‘PARKS’: A FAREWELL TO ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’

By The Taste Basket Team A good deal of us here at The Taste Basket will attest to the notion […]

ANIMATION NEW AND NEWER: THE 2014-2015 ROUNDUP
February 16, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

ANIMATION NEW AND NEWER: THE 2014-2015 ROUNDUP

By Cole Rothacker Last year was an interesting year for animated films. For the first time since 2006, we didn’t see […]

BLIND SPOTS: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
January 28, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Blind Spots

BLIND SPOTS: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Blind Spots: we all have them. With so much cultural baggage heaped onto our nifty Honda Zeitgeists, it’s hard not to. […]

FOR YOUR TV SCREEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY
December 25, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

FOR YOUR TV SCREEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY

It’s Christmas, folks, and you know what that means: The Taste Basket writers/holiday aficionados Kevin Redding and Dan Poorman have joined forces to create another […]

SOCIOPATHS, DRESSES, AND THE MECHANICS OF ACTING: CRACKING OPEN THE MIND OF BRAD DOURIF
December 15, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

SOCIOPATHS, DRESSES, AND THE MECHANICS OF ACTING: CRACKING OPEN THE MIND OF BRAD DOURIF

By Kevin Redding Since the 1970s, actor Brad Dourif has made a career out of his chameleon-versatility in film, TV, […]

ON MONSTER MASHUPS
October 30, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

ON MONSTER MASHUPS

By PJ Grisar The modern monster mythos was born one rainy summer night in Switzerland when a teenage girl decided […]

‘IT’ ALL STARTED WITH A VIDEOTAPE…
October 7, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

‘IT’ ALL STARTED WITH A VIDEOTAPE…

By Logan Metcalf Stemming from my childhood, there have been two constant phobias that have always plagued me. Unsurprisingly, they […]

BLIND SPOTS: BREAKING BAD
September 18, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Blind Spots

BLIND SPOTS: BREAKING BAD

Blind Spots: we all have them. With so much cultural baggage heaped onto our nifty Honda Zeitgeists, it’s hard not […]

HE SAID HE HAD A STORY TO TELL: INDIE MINSTREL VINCENT PALMERI ON WRITING HIS BAND’S NEW CONCEPT ALBUM
August 27, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

HE SAID HE HAD A STORY TO TELL: INDIE MINSTREL VINCENT PALMERI ON WRITING HIS BAND’S NEW CONCEPT ALBUM

By Dan Poorman The Bellegards are three young men from Long Island’s Suffolk County. Two of them, bassist Nic Palmeri […]

ON A SIMPSONIAN MODERNITY
August 21, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Television

ON A SIMPSONIAN MODERNITY

By PJ Grisar Let The Simpsons sinkhole ope beneath our unworthy feet. Every episode of the original, jaundiced nuclear family […]

SEINFELD RULES
July 28, 2014 1 Comment by danpoorman Television

SEINFELD RULES

By PJ Grisar   In a clever turn of parenting, much of my early TV viewing was policed by something […]

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