Paul Jacobson

Tag: Entertainment

  • The Greatest Showman

    The Greatest Showman

    Our daughter has been asking to watch The Greatest Showman for a few weeks. We watched the movie over the weekend, and it was wonderful.

  • Countless channels and nothing worth watching

    Countless channels and nothing worth watching

    Despite the sheer amount of content available on services like YouTube, there are times when it feels like there’s absolutely nothing worth watching. It must be some sort of algorithmic dead zone that occurs now and then. Like tonight. It’s a good thing I have so much to read …

  • Giving audiences what they want, when they want it

    Giving audiences what they want, when they want it

    Kevin Spacey spoke about the importance of changing with the times and giving audiences the stories they crave in the formats they want and on the devices they have in 2013. We can see the industry changing a fair amount lately and Netflix’s Reed Hasting’s comments at the recent Code Conference reflect this. The big…

  • “Meanwhile on Stargate, 95% of planets are Canada”

    “Meanwhile on Stargate, 95% of planets are Canada”

    I wanted to share a quote that made me laugh because it is so true: “Meanwhile on Stargate, 95% of planets are Canada.”

  • The Flatley chronicles

    I have been listening to music from Lord of the Dance and pulled up a video of one of the scenes, Cry of the Celts. It reminded me about a performance on Britain’s Got Talent 2009 which was a brilliant parody of the original. Take a little time and watch these two, they are both…

  • Supernatural season 7 teaser

    We’ve been watching Supernatural religiously (excuse the pun) and we realized that season 6 is coming to an end on TV. Almost in despair, I went to IMDB and discovered that season 7 kicks off in the US in September and here is a teaser from Comic-Con: Phew!

  • If you want to watch the Royal Wedding online

    In the off-chance you are stuck at work or otherwise not in front of a TV and desperately want to watch the Royal Wedding tomorrow, you can stream it from YouTube on the Royal Channel which looks a bit like this (there are a couple bogus channels up and you are really going to want…

  • Don't underestimate the power of Thor

    This great little video from Marvel takes on the Volkswagen Star Wars ad (also brilliant):