Blog Focus: Amazon’s Disc+ On Demand
Amazon's new Disc+ On Demand product allows you to "purchase select DVD and Blu-ray titles from Amazon.com… and receive an Amazon Video On Demand standard definition version as a gift with purchase." At present, only a small portion of Amazon's DVD titles (300 of 330,000) are available, but we can expect this number to increase [...]
Avatar Interactive Trailer Offers Slew of Social Media Goodness
Well, you know that when James Cameron spends a decade working on a new flick, he’s not going to go light on the marketing. The result, on the webby side at the least, is awfully intriguing. The Official Avatar Interactive Trailer is an Adobe AIR app that brings the trailer for the lavishly expensive and [...]
Is Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino all washed up—or just hitting his stride? – By Dennis Lim – Slate Magazine
via slate.com Pretty great analysis of Inglourious Basterds (which I haven’t seen yet — but I must and will soon) and Tarantino’s overall body of work. I do think that Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are masterpieces both, whereas Tarantino’s followups have been merely good (Kill Bill) to very good (Jackie Brown, the second half [...]
Harry contemplates INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Spoiler Heavy. You Have Been Really Warned! — Ain\'t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
I’ve had a lot of problems with this review. More than I’ve had with any film in a very long time. Why? Well, it is very complicated and I’ve been struggling with how to phrase it. I love every moment of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. Every shot, every scene, every performance, every bit of music. I love [...]
WarGames movie – Mr. Potatohead! Backdoors are NOT secrets
via youtube.com Such an amazing movies, War Games is. This scene is hilarious… and check out the creepy futuristic early 80s electro vibe that\’s thrown down if you make it past the first scene to when Broderick is doing research. \”Backdoors are not secrets…\” Classic line on a Friday. Posted via web from Eric Berlin\’s [...]
It's a wonderful (subprime lending) life?
It’s A Wonderful Life is one of my favorite movies of all time, so it’s bizarre, hilarious, and mildly disturbing all at once to see this headline on The Consumerist: Was George Bailey A Subprime Lender? Quoting Portfolio (link not available for some reason), we get the following rationale: But consider this: Perhaps Mr. Potter [...]
The Shining goes high tech
If you’ve never seen The Shining, this won’t make a lot of sense. But if you have… brilliant. I think I could sign on to a full feature recreation of this flick starring robots… All work and no play makes Jacky 5 a dull robot. Update: I had to throw this in. God bless the [...]
