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Closeted Comedy: If You Come Out And You’re Not Famous, Does Anyone Care?
Pop Culture, Show News - by Maria Kern on May 17, 2013

KoldCast TV’s bold new comedy, Acting Out, explores the double life of a gay actor trying to reconcile his identity with making it big in image conscious Hollywood. “To come out or not to come out” is the flamboya…

7 TV Shows & Movies That Will Make You Feel Super Special
P.O.V., Pop Culture - by Nathan Savin Scott on May 14, 2013

Last week’s virulent Time Magazine cover of a twenty-something taking a “selfie” on her iPhone has been making tidal waves. There’s been chatter about the problem with millennials for years, so why all the com…

Great Myths Think Alike: The Curiously Modern Ancient Greek Revival on ITV
Pop Culture, Show News - by Maria Kern on May 10, 2013

American television, cinema, and the culture at large are experiencing a late, great, Greek revival. From endless Clash of the Titans sequels to the battle raging between yogurt labels, Grecian is in fashion…

5 Sitcoms That Recast Key Lady Parts and Lived to Tell the Tale
Pop Culture - by Diana Eloise Levy on April 17, 2013

A good movie tends to not switch the actors behind its lead characters midway through the film. Needless to say, this would be problematic for audiences. Back to the Future famously recast its lead from Eric Sto…

The 15 Most Amusing Celebrity Appearances in Foreign Advertisements
Pop Culture - by Nathan Savin Scott on April 15, 2013

It’s a problem that confronts many a successful actor – the desire to earn extra money by appearing in advertisements, coupled with the fear that overexposing their moneymaker mug might cheapen their i…

A Glimpse Into TV’s Future: 15 KoldCast Series Win Big at the 2013 LA WebFest
Show News - by Maria Kern on April 10, 2013

The 2013 awards season came to a close over the final four days of March with the 5th Annual LA WebFest honoring the finest in online entertainment. The festival’s tagline, “The Future Is Now”, is perfectly apt c…

Dating is Dead: ITV Series Compulsive Love Revives the Flatlining Rom-Com
P.O.V., Pop Culture, Show News - by Maria Kern on April 8, 2013

People have always used romantic comedies as primers on how to relate to the opposite sex. As the word “love” has regrettably shifted from a selfless verb to an indulgent adjective, the staple genre has likewis…

The Top 10 Fiercest Fictional Athletes
Pop Culture - by Toby Burns on April 5, 2013

Sports have always been a good friend to film and television. Visually interesting, naturally dramatic, and inherently action-packed, athletic environments have made for great entertainment across a wid…

Gee, Thanks Mom! How Train Wreck Parents Fueled The Greatest Teen Dramas
Pop Culture, Show News - by Kira Hesser on April 1, 2013

We’ve all experienced that uber-narcissistic stage of adolescence during which we felt the extremes of gratitude when our parents weren’t home and the pangs of yearning when we couldn’t wait for them to leave…

Nucky’s Picks: The Top 10 Prohibition Cocktails Making Their Way Back Into Glasses
Food & Cooking, Pop Culture - by Rebecca Muh on March 28, 2013

The 18th amendment has long been repealed, but today’s best bars are enjoying a resurgence of good old-fashioned cocktails from the roaring twenties (including the Old Fashioned) that are cropping up on happ…