If you've been living under a rock, and haven't heard of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, you've got a new chance to experience it in its fullest glory with the DVD release on June 2nd. Now, you're thinking that you can watch it free online, and that's true, but the bonuses on the DVD are well worth the price. For the uninitiated, the show is a Joss Whedon creation, and stars: Neil Patrick … [Read more...]
Pixar certainly knows a lot about animation, and that’s what people think of first when you mention the company, but what everyone ought to think of first is that they know a lot about movies. As amazing as their computer-created worlds are, their moviemaking skills far outshine them. Finding Nemo is an incredibly impressive view of things that are among the most difficult to animate, not the … [Read more...]
The Starlost is a rare gem of classic television, and you've got to love the people who are releasing incredible stuff like this. Coming to you straight from the special effects powerhouse that is mid-budget, 1973 Canadian television, The Starlost is a 16-episode adventure in space which simply cannot be compared to anything before or since. The show takes place on The Ark, an enormous … [Read more...]
Seriously, I'm a Blogger...!!! In conjunction with the upcoming NBC version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, there's a blogging competition going on, and yours truly is one of the competitors. I'm a Blogger... runs in a similar fashion, with bloggers submitting to challenges, and leaving themselves open to votes. To vote for me, go here - My first entry on I'm a … [Read more...]
The Goode Family is a new animated series from Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-head, Office Space), John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky (King of the Hill, Blades of Glory). It's the first really serious poke at the politically correct, and it spares nothing in the name of giving conservationists, vegans, and just about everyone else a hard time. Gerald and Helen Goode … [Read more...]
One of the titles I got to check out at the EA Sports Season Opener, EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis is one of the best games I've ever played on the Wii. I know a lot of people who really like the tennis game that comes with the Wii, and this game takes that ease of play, and turns things up about ten notches. To start, it really is an amazingly simple game to jump into and get going. If you … [Read more...]
You probably already know that Jon & Kate Plus 8 managed its highest ratings ever with the premiere of the latest season. It's hardly surprising given the fact that America had the opportunity to tune in to some tabloid-timely reality. And, naturally, the web is littered with reactions and all manner of snippets from every angle. It might be Mark A. Perigard from the Boston Herald … [Read more...]
There’s a fairly clever bit of dialogue in Whit Stillman’s Barcelona where Chris Eigeman’s character wonders aloud about sub-text. It’s a wonderful, seemingly random bit of conversation that remarkably solidifies Eigeman’s character. The upshot is that Eigeman’s character is lost as to all this ‘sub-text’ nonsense people keep bandying about, and he eventually asks what is the part … [Read more...]
The second season of Here Come the Newlyweds is premiering tonight, and if you knew there was a first season, cheers to you. The winners from that first season took home nearly $500,000, and a new crew of newlyweds are here to try their luck. The screwball adventure finds couples - trying to identify their spouses by butt squeeze alone, competing in paintball competitions, and much more, all … [Read more...]
Ben Stiller's second foray into the world of museum artifacts springing to life is a fun, summer romp, but it suffers somewhat for the loss of the initial plot arc. There's a lot going on, but it's mostly in the 'excuse to have another movie' category, and not really much that serves a storyline. Since we last saw him, Larry Daley has moved on from his life at the museum. He's now an … [Read more...]
If you haven't seen it yet, check out my preview review of EA Sports Active with images from EA Sports Season Opener event. Then leave a comment here, and you're automatically entered to win your own copy. Winner will be picked randomly from all comments on June 1st. EA Sports Active is an exercise Wii 'game' that offers a wide variety of targeted fitness routines right in … [Read more...]
Not enough Terminator for one weekend? Well, I've got your answer. Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series. What you've got with this interesting effort are six original episodes that cover the time period between the video game and the film, and all created with the video game assets. It looks basically like you stepped inside the game engine and bent it to your will in order to … [Read more...]
The American version of Eleventh Hour apparently only made it one season, though there are rumors of it getting picked up somewhere else. The Rufus Sewell led version was pretty good, and the show seemed a dream enterprise for CBS audiences, but it looks like it's done. While the show was pretty good, and Rufus Sewell really did a nice job, it didn't quite live up to the BBC original with … [Read more...]
If you happened to miss FOX's preview special of the Glee pilot episode, it isn't that surprising given the competition, but you missed a real treat. The misfit musi-comedy about high school life, and it's clubs, popularity contests, and hierarchies, is driven by a kind of creative genius rarely witnessed in the television world. I know, pretty serious stuff, isn't it? First of … [Read more...]
It's time for the rundown of the next season of television. All the networks are going through some changes, some even playing with the very notion of primetime. Let's take a look. CBS CBS (the only people putting out television shows who refuse to acknowledge me as press... so the hell with them) makes few claims about itself, apart from focusing on the fact that they are the … [Read more...]
At a certain point in Stacy Peralta's latest effort, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, one of our interview subjects comments (roughly) that one of the chief devices of oppression is to turn the oppressed into the tools of their own oppression. It was at this point, historically-moving documentary aside, that the film became interesting for me. Sure, the whole thing is a worthy effort just … [Read more...]
