OK, I know the Golden Globes honor television and movies. So could they honor a movie every now and then? After Christopher Plummer won best supporting actor in a drama, it’s been all TV, all the time, with a short time out for explaining to us what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is and what it does. Frankly, I don’t care.
Francis Ford Cuppola is oft quoted as having said that “Cinema, Movies and Magic have always been closely associatedâ€. The magic of movies comes from their ability to make you forget that they are ‘make-believe’. Yet, movies today and those of the pre-digital age have one key difference – realism!
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) 2011 got off to a completely irreverent start with the debut of “Shameless” on the Showtime cable channel, and now the first gin-soaked season is available on DVD as a kind of refresher course…
Although the looming, brooding presence of a certain caped crusader threatens to overshadow the summer moviegoing season, dozens of aspiring blockbusters will be muscling their way into the multiplexes when the weather warms up. Figuring prominently in that jam-packed schedule are three of the world’s biggest movie stars — Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and Will Smith.
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Mark Wahlberg plays a master smuggler in “Contraband,” but he couldn’t steal great reviews from the nation’s critics this week.
Panasonic’s slimline DMP-BBT01 is only a little wider than a Blu-ray disc. (Credit: Panasonic) Most manufacturers have made a marked effort to pare down the number of different Blu-ray player models they make, but not Panasonic.
Back in 2010, Hollywood studios negotiated a major win over DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming service Netflix, getting the company to agree to a 28-day day delay between the retail availability of new titles on Blu-ray and DVD and when they’d be available for rental on Netflix. Now, that window is getting even bigger, with Warner Bros
Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But some of them are warming to its suggestion BSkyB (NYSE:BSY) should …