Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Netflix ’

This week: Cannes, More PR Nonsense from Netflix, Jax and Clay Together Again Bro, and Paris Hilton Cries Delicious Tears.
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Between offending Sarah Palin fans, the start of principal photography on House of Cards Season 2 and the supposed Great Purge of titles that hit this week, Netflix had an interesting week. Sarah Palin is not worth talking about — ever, and we know nothing about House of Cards yet. Streamaggedon, as it was called, is...
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So, it sounds like the big Wayne’s World screening that reunited the embittered cast and crew (Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Penelope Spheeris and Lorne Michaels among others) that the Academy hosted this week was mostly a dud. From the reports, the post-screening Q&A avoided the friction between the cast and crew, especially the friction between...
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I’m Not Rappaport - Herb Gardner (1996) It’s a damn shame that we’ve lost both Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis in the years since I’m Not Rappaport came out. They were true titans, actors with depth and range honed on the stage in the 40s before making it to Hollywood. They star here as Nat Moyer and Midge...
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Just to supplement our home video column this week, Criterion announced today that they would be celebrating Akira Kurosawa’s birthday this weekend by streaming 24 of his films (plus a few bonus videos) for free all weekend. The titles include some of his most famous, like The Seven Samurai, Ikiru and The High and...
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Ugh, day light savings time, I hate you so much. I feel completely out of sorts for the entire day every time you happen. I feel like today is a wasted day even though that’s irrational.  Anyway, it’s another week and another slate of film festivals to talk about. I’m at neither one of...
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When I was in college, I got to be a Nielsen household. I opened my mailbox one day, and there was a friendly solicitation from America’s top TV-ratings service, asking me to take part in their great and ongoing experiment. I hadn’t merited one of those fancy monitor boxes; instead, Nielsen had merely sent...
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Beginning at 3am last night, Netflix went live with the entire first season of their biggest original series to date, the slow-burning political thriller House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and Kate Mara. In a wild departure from the history of television as we’ve known it since it began, all 13 episodes of...
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Apologies for the lack of images and probably the spelling and grammar. I’m away and don’t have access to my computer so everything is foreign to my fingers here and I’ve only had my phone to keep track of the stuff I read this week (also I didn’t read that much, so I’m playing catch...
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Throughout the day today, the Los Angeles Film Critic Circle is announcing their year end winners on their Twitter account (Dwight Henry for Best Supporting Actor for Beasts of the Southern Wild was the right call, so they’re 1 for 1 so far), as are the Boston Society of Film Critics on their Twitter account....
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