It feels like it’s been forever since Barnes & Noble ran its last 50% Off Criterion Collection sale. The retailer does this twice annually, in July and November. This year’s first sale starts tomorrow. What will you buy?
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The time has come to announce the winner of last week’s ‘Sucker Punch’ giveway. Let’s waste no more time, and get this thing going, shall we?
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The good news is that there isn’t much leaving the Netflix stream this week. The bad news is that there isn’t much entering the stream this week either. This is just one of those lazy summer weeks where nothing’s really happening.
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Do you like videogames? Well, you’re in luck, because one comes out this week! That’s right, one. For what it’s worth, it seems like this will be a really good one. Or, at the very least, fun.
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Welcome back! Did you all have a good long weekend? While we’re back to work today, things are looking pretty slow in Blu-ray land.
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I hate it when a movie limits its audience to one tiny demographic. It’s no wonder why something like Disney’s ‘Prom’ (from earlier this year) flopped at the box office. The studio made a movie exclusively for teenybopper girls ranging from ages 15 to 18. Appealing to such a tiny audience, movies like these are never going to be very big. Starring a teen actress whose only claims to fame are being in tons of Disney Channel programs and dating that annoying Bieber kid, ‘Monte Carlo’ is worthy of being clumped with those failure flicks that lack audience appeal.
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Don’t miss your chance to win ‘Sucker Punch‘ on Blu-ray. The deadline for our contest is today. See the original post for details. Reply in the comments to that post, not this one. Good luck!
Yikes. I’m an unabashed Netflix lover and even I find it hard to get too excited for this coming week. Sure, we get a few good flicks added to the stream, but we also lose pretty much everything made by Showtime. That’s a really big trade. On the plus side, we’re getting plenty of ‘Star Trek’ to ease the pain.
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We home theater fans can be nit-picky types, sometimes obsessing over pixel-by-pixel imperfections in the latest Blu-ray releases. One such controversy erupted at the end of May when Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ was released on the format in an aspect ratio slightly different than what people assumed it should be. After much arguing, a definitive answer has finally been uncovered.
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A sequel, an arcade version, and a 3D version of a mini game… At least we have a few original titles coming in late July. Look, game industry, if you just want to stop trying, you can tell us. We won’t judge you.
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