What Video-Sharing Website Do You Use Most Often?


Updated 07/24/09 12:02 PM · Posted by GeekSugar · 5 comments

MSN Video Sharing Website Soapbox Shuts Down

Yesterday, MSN announced that it was shutting down its video-sharing property, Soapbox. Though I didn't use Soapbox myself, I'm sure its users are both bummed and hunting for a different video-uploading and sharing website. Which brings me to my question — of all the sharing sites out there, what do you use? I use TeamSugar, YouTube, and Vimeo for uploading, but I watch video on whatever site Read more

Soapbox: Give The Wire a Chance


Updated 01/13/08 8:26 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 10 comments

Soapbox: Give The Wire a Chance

Here's how much critics love The Wire: The show's Wikipedia page has has a running list of major publications, including Time and Entertainment Weekly, that have called it the best show on television. Yet the show, which kicks off its fifth and final season of exploring the darkest side of Baltimore on Sunday, has been mostly ignored by both awards shows and viewers. As a relatively recent Read more

Soapbox: Is Quarterlife a Synonym for Selling Out?


Updated 11/21/07 3:15 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

Soapbox: Is Quarterlife a Synonym for Selling Out?

For most of my TV-watching life, I've defined myself as a fan of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the producing team behind Relativity, Once and Again, and, of course, My So-Called Life. I remember reading about their latest project, Quarterlife, several years ago, back when it was still an ABC pilot awkwardly titled 1/4life. I was bummed when it didn't make the network's schedule, and I Read more

Soapbox: Warner Bros. Exec Needs to Stop Hating on Women


Updated 10/09/07 11:48 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 16 comments

Soapbox: Warner Bros. Exec Needs to Stop Hating on Women

Anyone want to get nice and riled up to start the week? Good. Then check out this alleged statement from a Warner Bros. executive that the studio will no longer do movies with women in the lead. According to LA Weekly reporter Nikki Finke, production president Jeff Robinov made the statement after The Brave One and The Invasion didn't meet expectations at the box office. So let me get this Read more

Soapbox: Captivity


Updated 07/16/07 8:45 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 20 comments

Soapbox: Captivity

I have never once had any inclination to see the latest "torture porn" movie Captivity, but after reading the most scathing review in the world, I'm even less interested. In fact, I'm nauseated, in a similar way to how I felt about Hostel: Part 2, but even more so. Apparently, the "plot" of the movie consists of blond model Jennifer (Elisha Cuthbert) being tortured in a variety of ways by a Read more

Soapbox: Enough With the Sequels Already!


Updated 05/12/07 10:02 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 9 comments

Soapbox: Enough With the Sequels Already!

Giddy from their record-breaking first weekend, the producers and studio execs behind Spider-Man 3 are falling over themselves with news and ideas for the next Spidey installments. Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal is claiming that "There'll be a fourth and a fifth and sixth and a seventh," and that "As many stories as Peter Parker has to tell, we'll do sequels." There are already Read more

Soapbox: Maybe "FNL" Shouldn't Get a Second Season


Updated 05/03/07 10:50 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 7 comments

Soapbox: Maybe "FNL" Shouldn't Get a Second Season

If you've been reading Buzz for a while, you know I adore "Friday Night Lights." It was easily my favorite new show this year; even now, three weeks since the show's season (and possibly series) finale, I get chills thinking about Coach Taylor's halftime speech. Though the fate of the show is still up in the air (and will be until NBC announces its fall schedule May 14), signs have been looking Read more

Soapbox: Why You Should Watch "Significant Others"


Updated 01/29/07 11:35 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

Soapbox: Why You Should Watch "Significant Others"

We all have TV shows that we champion long after they've been canceled, and one of mine is "Significant Others." Just to be clear, I'm not talking about the Jennifer Garner series of the same name that Fox canceled in 1998. This show, which aired for two seasons on Bravo in 2004 and 2005, featured a cast of unknowns and an almost entirely improvised script about troubled couples in therapy. It's Read more

Soapbox, Revisited: What's the Matter With "My Boys"


Updated 12/28/06 7:44 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 5 comments

Soapbox, Revisited: What's the Matter With "My Boys"

Recently I went on a rant about the TBS original series, "My Boys," which I find lame and annoying. It seems to want to be a kind of "Sex and the City" for tomboy-types, yet the writing is not very good, and the stereotypes that were so cliche in "Sex and the City" are simply reinforced in new ways. Clearly, I'm in the minority in my dislike, because TBS just picked up "My Boys" for nine more Read more

Soapbox: What's the Matter With "My Boys"


Updated 01/19/07 6:10 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 12 comments

Soapbox: What's the Matter With "My Boys"

Because I went to journalism school in Chicago and have lots of guy friends, I was excited to watch the new show "My Boys," which airs Tuesday nights at 10 on TBS. The show follows a sportwriter named PJ (played by Jordana Spiro), who lives in Chicago, writes for the Sun-Times, and has a pack of close guy friends. It sounded right up my alley. But after seeing the first two episodes, I've mostly Read more