On July 28th, one hundred years ago, the first World War began. The Great War, as it was later called, brought the world together like no other event at the time. Its impact can still be felt to this day
You’ve seen DVD rental stores closing up shop at a rapid pace, and the DVD sales section at Best Buy shrinking. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) projects entertainment and media spending is going to increasingly shift to digital services and eventually surpass physical media. It expects digital entertainment – which would be on-demand streaming services from Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and others – will …
I missed Sabotage when it first hit theaters. It falls into that sort of no-man’s land of films that may or may not qualify as “genre,†and coupled with scathingly negative word-of-mouth, we weren’t too put out to see it pass on by…
Reader Jason Enns would like to streamline his media acquisition workflow. He writes: I know you’re a fan of the Mac mini media center and I’ve tried to follow your example.
Recommended Marty (1955) was the little film that could, an almost-art film reportedly produced as a tax write-off that ended up winning four major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay) while earning rentals ten times its modest ($350,000) cost.
Rent It Many eighteen-year-olds are unhappy with their lives, but Nate Norman's (Jonathan Daniel Brown) unhappiness extends to the rest of his family: his mother (Amanda Tapping) waitresses and barely makes enough ends meet for a cramped home where Nate and his younger brother Phillip (Mark Hills) squeeze in among clutter and junk. Nate himself delivers pizzas, which seems like a dead end until …
Status Quo have announced that they will be releasing live album, Blu-ray/DVD, and vinyl packages that were recorded during their last Frantic Four show earlier this year
Recommended The Movie: “You dirty, lousy Mick! You got no rules!” Of course not. When you're a tough, old supercop who is a little Dirty Harry , a little Bullitt , and all John Wayne, you make your own rules. That's the conceit, at least, of the 1975 fish-out-of-water cop thriller Brannigan .
Eagle Rock have announced that they will be releasing Yes' 'Songs From Tsongas – The 35th Anniversary Concert – Special Edition 'on 2DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital Formats, and the first ever release of 'Songs From Tsongas' as a 3CD set on September 23rd
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. My goodness, but how wonderful is Judy Holliday? If we were to do some serious consideration of cinema's best comedic performance by a woman, her turn as Billie Dawn in George Cukor's 1950 adaptation of Born Yesterday would be hard to beat …