Earlier this year, Warner Bros. made the rather bold announcement that the studio intended to present all of its future “tentpole” movies in 3-D. While some of these films would be native 3-D productions, a good number...
The “Director’s Cut.” The “Extended Edition.” The “Unrated Version.” Since the dawn of the DVD era (and even earlier), it’s been a Hollywood staple for filmmakers and studios to add ...
Yes, that’s the theme of this weekend’s crop of new movies: really long titles. From ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story,’ to ‘Life As We Know It,’ to ‘My Soul to Take’ (not to mention...
Would you like to hear the end of that sentence above? Well, too bad. We’ve programmed it to overrun the allotted space so that the end would get cut off. Why would we do that? No reason, really. We knew that it wouldn’...
NBC Thursday was in fine shape this week, assuming that you don’t count ‘Outsourced.’ As of this week, I definitely don’t.
Ah, nostalgia. It’s the feeling that drives so many of my purchases. It’s one of the reasons I listen to chiptunes and am driven to buy old games every chance I get. It’s the reason I have a fantastic piece of &#...
Remember the snappy season finale of ‘Mad Men’ last year – the episode where the gang started a brand new agency and everything had a certain feeling of hopeful effervescence? After this week’s episode, in which ...
Yes, I know that I’m a week behind in recapping ‘Mad Men.’ Between covering the New York Film Festival and drinking until I black out, time does slip away from me. But that’s an apt metaphor for last week&#...
There’s an earthquake on ‘Modern Family’ this week, and some strange life lessons to follow it up.
Steelbook and metal case collectors can be a fussy bunch, always obsessing over keeping their Blu-ray cases in pristine condition. That’s not without good reason, however. What’s the point of buying a Blu-ray in fancy ...
In last week’s recap of the season premiere, I said that I hoped that ‘Fringe’ would drag out the alternate universes storyline for a while and not just fall back to case-of-the-week plots too quickly. With the s...
I love the idea of companies like Panasonic getting back into gaming. (Remember the 3DO?) But this really isn’t the way to do it.
