Okay, so here’s the deal. Instant Watcher, the site I usually go to for my Netflix information, says that nothing new is coming this week. Streaming Soon, which I use to double-check when Instant Watcher is down, says the sa...
I wanted to write about this last week when the new season of ‘Project Runway’ premiered, but then the whirlwind of child birth caught me by surprise. Anyway, we don’t focus too much on Reality TV here in The Bon...
Few would deny that Ridley Scott is a competent director. Since he made ‘Alien‘ and ‘Blade Runner‘, he gets a lot of free passes in my book. However, Scott has been taking advantage of said passes rather li...
As comic book movies have taken a turn for the realistic, so have the characters’ costumes. Instead of looking cartoonish and, well, comic book-y, superhero costumes have become more practical and believable – for the most p...
Well, what do you know? I’d pretty much reconciled myself to the fact that this season of ‘True Blood’ was all going to be one big disappointment… and then the show goes and gives us a pretty darn good episode th...
Michael Weston is getting closer to finding the person who framed him. The ‘Burn Notice’ team now has an unsuspecting man in custody who didn’t even know he was framing Michael when he bought that cell phone in t...
The “Standards and Practices” rules for cable – even basic cable – channels are a lot more lenient than the major broadcast networks. After 10 PM, just about anything except nudity and the f-word are fair game. (For th...
Back in the olden days of the video era, the only way to rent a movie was to drive to a brick-and-mortar store to pick up a tape or (later) a DVD. Nowadays, we can get discs shipped to us by mail or instantly stream movies from th...
Last month, I mentioned that I finally made the decision to remove the Toshiba HD-XA2 HD DVD player from my home theater setup. Rather than deal with any separation anxiety, I wanted to replace it with a new toy. Once I satisfied ...
This week’s VUDU rental options keep track fairly well with the new Blu-ray titles being released at the same time. In this case, that’s kind of a shame, because the movies were mostly box office duds.
“Captain Kirk is the man,” declares Harvey on ‘Suits’ when it’s revealed that this snappy dresser and eminent ladies’ man is a closet Trekkie. He even calls his girlfriend “Scotty.” ...
The summer drought continues. There aren’t many new releases worth talking about this week, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t videogames worth playing. I have a huge back catalog of titles that I’ve b...
