Recommended The Movie: It's been said that the reason many musical acts suffer from a “sophomore slump” is because the artist took all of their best ideas of the past decade and distilled it into one breakout masterpiece. Given only a year or so to craft a follow-up, it's not surprising that most artists falter. One can only speculate that something like this happened for writer-director Cameron …
Slash will release a live package this fall featuring his September 25, 2014 performance at The Roxy in Los Angeles
New on DVD this week: The Hobbit, Interstellar and Into the Woods starring Meryl Streep.
Rent It The Movie: Thoughtfully crafted, lavishly produced yet lethargically weighed down with a familiar, Hitchcock-like plot, 1964's Woman of Straw represented an opportunity for Sean Connery to alert moviegoers that he could do more than James Bond. With solid work from co-stars Gina Lollobrigida and Ralph Richardson, Woman of Straw gets an overdue U.S
Highly Recommended The Movie: On the surface, the plot of The Immigrant sounds like one of those cheesy period melodramas that the senior-aged audience eats up: A pure immigrant woman comes to New York during the early 1920s and has to become a prostitute in order to save her beloved sick sister from deportation. Just by reading the logline, one can easily imagine scenes full of operatic tragedy …
Plextor has the answer to our portable DVD-burning needs with the PX-608CU, billed as the world’s smallest DVD burner. Indeed, it’s only a fraction larger than a DVD itself, about 16mm thick, yet allows up to 8X DVD-R speeds.
Addonics Technologies today announced its fastest and most flexible DVD player/CD burner with the release of its Mobile DVD/CDRW drive. The new Addonics Mobile DVD/CDRW drive offers value and performance with its 16x DVD player, 48x write/24x rewrite CDRW burner, and 48x CD-ROM.
Skip It Goodbye to Language 3D/2D Blu-ray Review There are few filmmakers who have had the level ofprestigeand importance in the history of filmmaking as Jean Luc Godard has had.As oneof the leaders at the forefront of the French New Wave in the 1960's,Godardhelped usher in a whole new style of filmmaking that has proved to begroundbreakingand influential for generations of filmmakers to come …
Skip It The Film: With advancements in technology and the perseverance of immersive entertainment (videogames, live-action role-playing), Michael Crichton's idea for Westworld — realistic environments populated with lifelike robots designed for rules-free chaos for those with the financial means — seems closer to feasible in our not-so-distant future than depicted in the '70s sci-fi classic …
Astar Electronics has just launched two new portable widescreen DVD players, the PD 3010 and PD 3020. The new DVD players are ‘top loading’ and feature 6.5″ (PD 3010 model) and 7″ (PD 3020 model) screens.