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 The Best Entertainment Magazine Out There January 4, 2005
James Choma
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a magazine that focuses on all aspects of the entertainment industry, look no further than this magazine.
I signed up for Entertainment Weekly as a charter subscriber back in 1990. I was looking for an alternative to Rolling Stone, something that focused exclusively on entertainment, and I found it with this magazine. I was hooked from the first issue and I've been a subscriber ever since. The funny thing is that I tend to keep my past issues. And as you can guess, on a weekly basis, they tend to take up space quickly! But I actually do find myself going back and referring to past issues.
Each issue is broken down into specific sections: Television, DVDs, Movies, Music, Books, etc., with fairly good commentary in each section. They rate the items reviewed on a grading scale of A to F, and often provide excellent, well thought out reviews. Yes, you're going to get latest fads (the Britney's and the Usher's) on the cover - but you'll also see established performers like Harrison Ford, Kenneth Branagh, Thomas Wolfe, and Tom Hanks on the cover as well. They cover the good, the bad, and everything else in between. If it's entertainment oriented, you'll find it here.
I especially like their annual movie and TV perview issues. ou get a great comprehensive overview of the upcoming TV season as well as almost every movie due to hit the screen, month by month.
While I really like the magazine overall, there are a few items I wish would change. The layout has gotten a little sloppy and hard to read over the past two years. Lots of colors mixed with different texts make it hard to focus. Another item is that they occassionally revise their reviews. For instance, Britney Spears's "Crossroads" movie received a B+. Once it came out on DVD, they revised their rating to a C. At least they come clean and state why they changed the rating in the DVD review. The last thing I've noticed is that they've gotten a little soft as far as their reviews go. I think they may have grown to the point where they don't want to offend any celebrities, so their interviews take a softer edge.
With Entertainment Weekly, you get what the magazine's name promises: a quality product covering all media outlets, delivered on a weekly basis. Subscribe to it and you'll be in the know as far as entertainment is concerned.
 about all your videos October 11, 2002
Frank Higel (Greenfeild, wi United States)
10 out of 61 found this review helpful
i frank higel recently purchased several videos of krav maga self defense tapes not knowing what they were about. i had no choice but to returned them. now i again ordered a video knowingly i will like this video angles and wild women. but still in the future you should show previews of a video to take the guess work out of what it may be. then i won;t have to return the video thank you
 Entertainment, Weakly. June 13, 2006
Smoov AZ Silk (Phoenix, AZ)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This magazine is just page after page of Hollywood P.R. agencies releases. Unbelievable. Why didn't I think of it? I know all magazines look for editorial content from outside sources, but other than a few pages of VERY subjective movie/music/book reviews, this magazine just re-writes and prints Hollywood press release after Hollywood press release again and again and again. This magazine must not have a staff of writers, but must employ an army of copy editors manning a warehouse of dedicated fax machines or e-mail inboxes. The funniest thing about this magazine is how the first few pages may be dedicated to a typically obsequious press release provided by, say, Tom Cruise's management company/major film studio/hired PR flak fawning over Cruise or his newest movie - and then you turn to the movie review section where some clever, sassy, wanna-be hipster movie reviewer proceeds to tell you that the movie absolutely sucks. Uh, okay - wait, didn't you get the press release? If you Tivo EXTRA and have the theme to Entertainment Tonight as your ringtone, this magazine is right up your alley. Otherwise, don't waste a penny on this nonsense.
Subscribed for a year...very disappointed February 3, 2005
Human
9 out of 24 found this review helpful
I got a free subscription to ET by using my frequent flier miles. When I read through my first issue, I was more than a little disappointed. The cover stories often dealt with movies that wouldn't open for a year, and were mostly hype to begin with. A few of the cover stories I remember (The Village, Van Helsing) covered two of the worst movies of the year, certainly not worthy of a cover story. The weekly reviews of the movies were pretty good, but the music reviews were terrible. I have quite an extensive music collection and familiarity, however, the albums reviewed were often from artists I'd never heard of while larger, more established artists were completely ignored. This is simply unacceptable. ET should be focused on the mainstream. Let Rolling Stone and other "music" magazines focus on the obscure bands. The articles and interviews in ET are terrible at best. Often, a "feature" interview consists of a celebrity rambling on about something stupid. And the filler material in the first half of the magazine (The Hot List, etc.) isn't fit for tabloids. In the year that I subscribed to the magazine, I can only think of one or two good articles that I read in the magazine. The addition of Stephen King as a columnnist helped, but even his columns seemed off-base most of the time, like he didn't have the guidance of an editor, but was simply given an open forum instead. ET is very disappointing. They simply ride each fad or popular celebrity until it stops moving, and then hop on to the next one. The magazine is hardly journalism. It's more like a high school gossip forum of sorts, where people talk about people rather than ideas and artistic achievements. Sad.
A total waste of paper April 1, 2006
J. Rahn (Waukesha, WI USA)
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Little or not content; even my daughter who is into the movie scene thinks is is pretty poorly done. Definitely could use some editorial assistance. The other problem is cancelling the subscription once you have it - there is no address or phone listed that we have been able to find. This was a "free" promo that has repeatedly forced us back to the credit card company to have them reverse the charges (beware free subscriptions at Best Buy).
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