You big sillies, that’s not a cat.
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So, my big deal of the week (aside from the earthquake and hurricane and cats and dogs living together) was that I signed up for a month trial of Hulu+ to see about cancelling Netflix discs (since their spat with Criterion, the bluray selection has been severely disappointing and not worth the extra money...
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After a few months of only occasional excitement on Announce Day, Criterion unloaded a blockbuster slate on us today. It includes the previously known titles of The Three Colors Trilogy, and the double-dips of The Rules of the Game and Rushmore. It was expected to be rounded out by Bitter Rice and Y Tu...
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As the crazy days of summer draw to a close, with the tentpole pictures mostly behind us, we’re starting to get a lot more choice in what to go see again. This weekend saw openings of Final Destination 5, The Help, Another Earth, The Devil’s Double, Glee 3D and 30 Minutes or Less not to...
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Just a quick post to remind you to hide your wallets. Stick those credit cards in a bag of water and throw it in the freezer so you can avoid financial ruin at the hands of those diabolical bastards at Criterion. It’s 50% off time at Barnes and Noble again, meaning most Blurays are...
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock and thought that continuous sonic boom this morning was the apocalypse, you know that the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off earlier today on the final shuttle mission NASA will ever launch. I’m personally not a big fan of the International Space Station, though I do have a...
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Another week, another comic book movie. This time it was Green Lantern’s turn, and things did not go as for old GL as they did for Thor, which is probably why you don’t want to put all of your summer dollar eggs into one basket, which you then give to Ryan Reynolds for safe...
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We’re already a few weeks into the summer movie season and we’re at the point where it is momentarily shifting away from the action blockbusters like Pirates 4 and Thor to the big, dumb comedy (I mean this in the best possible sense) this weekend, with The Hangover II and Kung Fu Panda II,...
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It’s that time of the year again. The special time of the year when we hear about all of these amazing films starring amazing actors, directed by wonderful directors the world over that we have to wait twelve to eighteen months to see. That’s right, the big news of the week was the beginning...
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Criterion announced their titles for July today, and there are some exciting titles in it. There is a remaster of Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (#6), as well as three new collection titles: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Leon Morin, Priest (#572), featuring Jean-Pail Belmondo; Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room (#573), which is the first Ray...
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