R.I.P. David Bowie
I’ve been remiss in talking about notable celebrity deaths here in the blog recently. Among others I’ve neglected to mention were the great cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond. Death isn’t somethi...
I’ve been remiss in talking about notable celebrity deaths here in the blog recently. Among others I’ve neglected to mention were the great cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond. Death isn’t somethi...
Next week is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Because our blog will be closed on Thursday and Friday for a long weekend, we’ll use today’s Roundtable to express our gratitude for the things that have made...
With the start of any new TV season comes the sad inevitability that some shows, even good shows, won’t survive long-term. In this week’s Roundtable, we look back at a few past series that were cut short before we were...
Going to the movies is a mainstay of the dating ritual in modern society. Yet not every movie that happens to be playing in theaters when you make a date is necessarily appropriate date movie material. In this week’s Roundta...
This week saw the release of one of the most exciting Blu-ray box sets of the year: ‘Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery’. Unfortunately, the reps at Paramount decided to be a bunch of cheapskates and didn’t send us a...
Who needs money, right? This week brings us two huge, expensive box sets that will (hopefully) be among the best Blu-ray releases of the year.
We learned this week that the beloved but short-lived TV series ‘Veronica Mars’ will be resurrected as a new movie financed by fans thanks to the power of social fundraising site Kickstarter. In today’s Roundtabl...
If the trailers are even remotely representative of the actual film, this week’s theatrical release of ‘Cloud Atlas’, which apparently has a narrative that spans multiple timelines from the 19th Century to the di...
This year has seen (or will see shortly) the Blu-ray releases of numerous big-ticket catalog titles that people have long clamored to own in high definition. In September alone, we’ll get the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Col...
As I found myself digging through my collection of old ‘Twin Peaks’ merchandise for my ongoing David Lynch marathon, I stumbled upon an interesting piece of memorabilia that I’d forgotten that I had – an audio ca...
While ‘Twin Peaks’ was still a hot property on television, tie-in merchandise such as the previously-reviewed ‘Secret Diary of Laura Palmer‘ did brisk business among fans. When producers wanted to publish a...
David Lynch and comedy make an uneasy combination. Although many of the director’s best works are filled with quite effective, offbeat humor, his few attempts to tackle the comedy genre directly (such as his 1988 short film ...