Okay, it’s going to look rather self-serving, because there are surely Amazon ads surrounding you right now, but I’m going to tell you about Unbox and the Tivo combination. It’s not news to anyone that you can now download movies and TV shows on Amazon (this isn’t really a news site. You’ll never hear about anything here before its long-dead as a scoop, especially by internet standards). … [Read more...]
Paramount Solidifies Its Efforts At Calling You Stupid
August 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Tropic Thunder is certainly making its mark at the box office, but those biggish-budget films with all those actor paychecks make for risky cost-return ratios. As movie studios have long known, and let’s face it, we all know it, making movies with shoestring budgets that are designed to suck in only the stupidest viewers is how you make money safely. The fact is, the movie business is a … [Read more...]
Reality Television Is Overrated… And Underrated
August 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Real World. Big Brother. A Shot At Love. The Apprentice. American Idol. What's Next? It isn’t exactly walking to school uphill both ways, but I remember watching the first season of MTV’s The Real World. I remember actually being fairly excited about the show, and probably for reasons that did not work for the show’s producers. I liked it because, despite the horrendous irony of the … [Read more...]
