Archive for 2008
Video of the day… • 30 December 2008
2009 Paramount Slate… • 30 December 2008
January 16, 2009
Defiance It’s Daniel Craig killing Nazis in this WWII flick.
Hotel for Dogs Kiddie flick that’s exactly what it sounds like.
January 30, 2009
The Uninvited Finally something new! It’s an Americanized remake of an Asian horror ghost movie! (I have to say, I was really hoping for a big budget remake of the killer cat [...]
This Week on DVD (12/30/08)… • 30 December 2008
Stuff 12/29/08 • 29 December 2008
Howard the Duck is now available in its entirety at Hulu.
Disney has decided not to fund the third Narnia film, The Dawn Treader. The production company is looking elsewhere for the necessary monies. Good luck to them, it’s a pretty good series.
Arrested Development creator Michael Hurwitz has implied that Michael Cera is the [...]
The box office goes to the dogs… • 29 December 2008
(Did you see what I did there?)
A flood of movies came out on Christmas Day, fortuitously (for Hollywood) occurring on a Thursday this year and allowing for a long weekend.
As a further sign that ’stars’ don’t matter much in today’s movie marketplace, the number one movie of the weekend featured two ‘b’ or ‘c’ level [...]
Stuff 12/26/08 • 26 December 2008
First of all, I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.
As those with nothing better to do know, it’s possible that the release of The Watchman movie will be help up because Fox retains some rights from the period prior to when Warner’s took over the project. Fox won the first round of court cases, [...]
A Christmas favor… • 23 December 2008
TCM is running a lot of Christmas movies for the next couple of days, and there’s some good stuff there. Again, though, I was wondering if anyone could burn a disc for me for The Cheaters, an old holiday favorite (a can of corn, but a beloved can of corn) they used to play here [...]
Horror Films: 1984 • 18 December 2008
C.H.U.D. OK, it’s not a classic, but damn, it’s a perfect junk food monster movie. There was a time when this played on HBO and Cinemax constantly, so much that it became a punch line in stand-up comic acts. Bonus points for the hilarious group commentary track on the DVD.
A Nightmare on Elm [...]
Talk about inside baseball! • 18 December 2008
Chris Magyar sent me this. I laughed so hard I started crying, and actually had to pause it to keep from choking.
By the way, Chris is a giant dick for thinking this is funny.