I don’t like updating you guys on celebrity gossip. I like to think our audience is smarter than the droves of “baby bump watchers” out there, who would slaughter their own spouse to hear the latest tidbit on a celebrity marriage.
But this one was just a little too good to pass up. Cult […]
Recently, the producers of Hollywood blockbusters have decided to use the prestigious, artsy fartsy international awards show to showcase their… let’s say, more mainstream projects. A few years ago The Da Vinci Code got totally owned by critics at the press screening, but they’ve kept it up, all the same…
Taped to my bedroom wall is a sealed envelope with all the treasures a man could ask for inside it. On the outside of the envelope is printed the following legend:
At long freaking last, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is again available on DVD. It was released yesterday, and for anyone who doesn’t own it yet, or who wants a chance to replace an old VHS copy, I have this advice to offer you: Run out and buy it! Buy it while you still can!
Quantum of Solace, the upcoming 395th film in the James Bond series, is not going to have its title song sung by Amy Winehouse, who apparently can’t stop using drugs and getting in fights and recording songs that sound exactly like Easy Reader’s theme from The Electric Company. Check out what her producer said about this situation.
So, actor Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to three years in jail for tax evasion. Sometimes when you’re busy making movies, things get a little hectic; I can see how you could forget to pay millions of dollars in income taxes over a period of several years.
But seriously, tax evasion is such a lame crime […]
PZ Meyers, a Biologist from the University of Minnesota, Morris, recently tried to attend a screening of the Creationist film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, but was himself expelled.
The Directors Guild has just forged a new deal with the same Producer’s union that the Writers have been striking against for several months.
In four days.
For the past year and a half, there has been a fierce battle between two main factions of the entertainment industry for the technology to the next generation of DVDs–HD-DVD, backed by Microsoft and Toshiba; and Blu-Ray, backed by Sony.
Now, Warner Brothers has thrown its support exclusively behind Blu-Ray, when originally it was producing titles in both formats. With this announcement, Universal and Paramount followed suit, indicating that although they’ve already pledged a few titles (less than Blu-Ray) to the HD-DVD format, those titles will likely be their last.
It was an annoying war, with no clearly superior technology, and stoked on both sides by industry greed and pride. It was delaying a much anticipated warp-speed jump into the future of television–and the promise of home theater which was finally as loud, sharp, and exciting as a movie theater.
People had grown tired of it before it began, and as of just a few months ago, there was no end in sight. Now, it looks like we might all get to ask for a Blu-Ray player by next Christmas.
Satirical newspaper The Onion has released its list of the “Least essential” albums of 2007, and the winner, the worst of the worst, is the original motion picture soundtrack for Alvin and the Chipmunks.
The album includes tracks such as “Ain’t No Party,” which contains the following lyrics: “Ain’t no party like a Chipmunk party ’cause a Chipmunk party don’t stop…”
The Onion A/V Club reports:
“This is the music the Chipmunks make after they sell out to evil music exec David Cross, and it’s presented within the film as awful, corporate sell-out music. And here it is for you to listen to.”
