Spoiler alert: the end is nigh for DVD rental stores
The slow demise of DVD rental stores is unfolding like the inevitable denouement of a film about roadkill on the technological highway.
April 7, 2012
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The slow demise of DVD rental stores is unfolding like the inevitable denouement of a film about roadkill on the technological highway.
Alex Ben Block The president opens up about difficulty of making good films, his distaste for 3D and the likelihood of sequels to “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “The Lorax.” read more
PORTLAND, Ore., April 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT – News) today announced the top ten movies-on-demand titles based on consumer transaction rate. Movies-on-demand are transactional …
Highly Recommended One of the great things about DVD and now the Blu-ray format is how, occasionally, heretofore long-unseen movies turn out to be a lot better than their terrible reputations would suggest, diamonds in the rough, as it were. This proved true, for instance, when in 2006 Fox released to DVD their Laurel & Hardy movies from the 1940s, pictures long regarded as unfunny, painful …
Here’s the scoop on this week’s new releases: Out this week: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey Chasing Madoff Read full article > >
A winner from Steven Spielberg leads these new movies on Blu-ray and DVD.
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Chasing Madoff This documentary focuses on the long and futile attempt by whistle-blower Harry Markopolos to alert authorities to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.