Heard any good Star Wars jokes this week? No, seriously, have you? The ones I heard were all terrible. But the Disney/Lucasfilm merger was quite a bombshell, and one that came from out of nowhere. The basic conversation about the Disney/Lucasfilm this week was about whether or not Princess Leia counts as a Disney...
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Much of my week was spent devouring both the Jaws and Royal Tenenbaums blurays. Both films look completely gorgeous in their hi-def upgrades, but beyond that there are some problems. Tenenbaums is the same disc as the DVD that came out 10 years ago, thus all of the features were shot in native SD and nothing...
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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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