“Entertainment Weekly”, which was once an interesting weekly deluge from the ho-hum of everyday life, has become just another rag crapped out weekly to stand on newstands week after week prostituting for your hard earned cash.

Back in the summer of 89, “EW” was released and after I read a few issues, I decided to subscribe. I was instantly hooked (the new issue would arrive in my mailbox the Saturday before it would hit regular newstands) & I liked getting the latest news and reviews from movies, music, T.V., and video (that was later added in the mid-90′s).

The problem with the magazine started in the late 90′s. I started to notice that “EW” would cover a big movie or event that hadn’t yet been released and then the following week bash the hell out of it, or try to get some piece of dirt on it in order to generate more sales.

I also hate the damn lists that “EW” comes up with. The latest entitled “The top 100 most memorable movie lines” was a joke. These lists have always annoyed me, because I feel they are truly not thought out and therefore not thought provoking.

The other & most important thing I noticed was the absolute lack of an honest review.

Case in point, a few weeks ago I picked up the latest issue in which the movie “Catwoman” had been reviewed (I wasn’t to sure if it was Gleiberman or Shwarzbaum that critiqued it).

I first logged onto “Rotten Tomatoes.com” to see what percentile “Catwoman” recieved from the nation’s critics.

Out of roughly 115 reviews “Catwoman” only got 10% of the good reviews while the rest trashed it (a film needs, at least, to get a grade of 60 – 65% in order to place it as a fresh or good movie). That makes “Catwoman” the worst reviewed film, so far, for 2004. Yet, “EW” gave the film a B. What erkes me even more is that “Catwoman” is released by “Warner Bros.”, the same company that owns the rights to the “Harry Potter” films, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, & yes, the “WB” owns “Entertainment Weekly”.

Is “Warner Bros.” trying to bribe or threaten its own critics at one of its most popular & lucrative magazine’s?

I’m not the only who has seen this developement. People have written in saying that there is favoritism among “Warner” products that are reviewed in the magazine. “EW”, of course, hotly denies anything of the kind thumping there chests and standing behind there reviews, possibly in fear of being fired (they will deny that also).

My only question to the reviewers at “Entertainment Weekly” is, “Whats it like to stand in your own pile of bull**it?”

Or better yet, “What’s it like to stand on a Democratic Podium?”
Rating: 1 / 5