Stream of online TV shows and movies starts flowing
Irish broadband users are at last getting a wide range of movies and TV on-demand
December 2, 2011
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Irish broadband users are at last getting a wide range of movies and TV on-demand
Not quite as fun or droll as Kenneth Branagh’s Thor but a lot better than the woeful Green Lantern, Captain America is a middling Marvel adaptation, which starts nicely but flags (the lengthy action scenes mainly) half-way through.
Todd Haynes’s first, hugely successful Hangover caper was innovative, crude and funny, the lead characters – decent Doug (Justin Bartha), indecent Phil (Bradley Cooper), unhinged Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and neurotic Stu (Ed Helms) – were obnoxious but still endearing, particularly Helms’s bullied dentist.
Harry Potter’s film incarnation can now settle where he belongs – the pre-Christmas shopping melee.
Fans of Westeros and the world beyond the Narrow Sea, start getting excited for spring, because “Game of Thrones” season one is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 6. Entertainment Weekly has the whole scoop on the upcoming home video release of HBO’s hit show, including the whole slew of special features that will be
Sky has launched a movies on demand service on the Sky Go app, meaning that Sky Movies can be viewed on mobile and tablets as well as on TV and online.
The spectre of dubbed movies (read Tamil movies) continues to haunt Telugu film industry. The row between film producers and exhibitors deepened on Tuesday with the general body of Telugu film producers unanimously passing six resolutions to press for curbs on the release of dubbed movies.
Feature: “Another Earth” (2011), “The Art of Getting By” (2011), “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” (2010), “Chillerama” (2011), “Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!” (various dates), “5 Days of War” (2011), “From Dusk Till Dawn:…
Though best known as a Bay Area theater director, Amy Glazer has movies in her blood. As a child, she got to hang out with Mel Brooks and Zero Mostel because her uncle, Sidney Glazier (who spelled his name differently),…
If the second series of cult sci-fi show Fringe was a year for shedding comparisons to The X Files and Lost, then it could be argued that the third series is the point at which the show began to do things that had never been done before.