Some of the most successful horror movies ever made – especially the more recent torture-porn variety – follow a specific formula: a group of people (often high school kids) go to a remote location and are terrorised by some mysterious psychopath who proceeds to kill them all.
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.
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its picks for Best Movies and TV shows of 2011.
Each Tuesday, several hundred DVDs of new, recent, repackaged, classic and defiantly anticlassic movies and TV shows are issued in whatever video stores are called now and on sites like amazon.com. Each week in this space we aim to shine a light on a few big, worthy or just plain weird releases. Think of us as the prescreening committee for your weekend watching.
Hollywood is making a major bet this year that consumers will buy movies, instead of renting, and view them on the go.