Blu-ray Highlights for 10/18/11 – Come Out, Come Out, Where
This week sees the Blu-ray release of one of the year’s billion-dollar blockbuster hits. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. I’m more interested in the catalog titles. What grabs your attention?
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2011 Emmy Winners – Same As 2010 Emmy Winners
I believe that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences needs to implement a major overhaul of the Emmy nomination process, such that once a person (in a specific role) or show wins a category, they should be retired from that ...
The Trailer Park: This One Is for the Kids
With the holidays fast approaching, it’s time for movie studios to start teasing families with pre-packaged collections of kid-friendly features. Two of these are sequels to already established, music-oriented, CG-animated f...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Gangster Movies
In honor of the FBI’s extremely belated capture of notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who’d been a fugitive for 16 years (12 of them on the Ten Most Wanted list), this week’s Roundtable t...
Blu-ray Highlights for 6/7/11 – What Are You Buying?
Looks like it’s western week on Blu-ray. Today’s release slate gives us one of the best films of last year (which just so happens to be a western) and a slew of catalog titles to tie in with it. Giddy up!
Movie Madness: Dr. Evil vs. Torrance – Kersey vs. Lamotta
This has been a long time coming. After today’s matchups, we will have finished the first round of Movie Madness. Blood has been spilt, feelings have been hurt, and victors have emerged. Monday saw the defeat of a classic ci...
Blu-ray Highlights for 4/5/11. What Are You Buying?
We’ve got another big week for new Blu-ray releases. Perhaps not quite as big as last week, but there are still plenty of attention-grabbing titles to keep an eye on.
The Netflix Stream: Week of March 20th, 2011
This is a pretty reasonable week for Netflix fans. Not too much is leaving, and we’re losing movies we can afford to get rid of with just a few exceptions. Also, a couple of good movies are finally streaming.
Weekend Roundtable: Worst Oscar Snubs
As we look forward to this year’s Academy Awards on February 27th, let’s first take a look back at some of the grave injustices that have plagued the awards show throughout its checkered history.
Blu-ray Highlights for 1/11/11: What Are You Buying?
There sure are a lot of “1s” in today’s date. Numerologists will have a field date with that, no doubt. For me, I’m just glad that there’s more than one Blu-ray worth buying this week. That’s pr...
Leaving the Stream: Week of October 17th, 2010
No matter what your fancy, there’s something leaving the stream this week that you need to get to. Whether you dig great music, talking cars, or bittersweet movies about high school, you’re going to want to jump on Net...
Weekend Roundtable: Most Anticipated Fall TV Shows
With September comes not only a break from the crushing heat of the summer months, but also (and more importantly) the beginning of fall TV! Yes, it’s time for old favorites to come back, and new shows to debut. This week...