For many people the quintessential rock and roll spoof is the classic mockumentary This is Spinal Tap. Walk Hard is a spoof of the Rock and Roll bio picture and the music industry, but it’s not trying to be Spinal Tap, and it’s not trying to be a spoof of E!’s True Hollywood Story. Well, […]
Sweeney Todd Is [Pardon The Expression] Bloody Good Fun!
No one thought that making a movie adaptation os Sweeney Todd was a good idea, though they certainly tried for a long time. Finally, the legendary Sondheim play came [or fell] into the hands of the one director who could take its stylishly macabre tale and do it justice. With playwright Stephen Sondheim performing surgery […]
Impresarios, Insiders and Artists Turn out to Celebrate with Producer Bryan-Michael Cox
Beneath the infectious lights and beating pulse of New York City, a number of music industry events took place on Tuesday, December 18. But none could compare to the ambience of Bryan -Michael Cox’s sleek 30th Birthday fete at the W Hotel, Union Square . The festive event, sponsored by W Hotel and Men’s Vogue, […]
Fox’s Sunshine will be one of the first Blu-Ray 1.1 DVDs
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) today confirmed the imminent arrival of its first Profile 1.1 Blu-ray Disc, SUNSHINE, available January 8, 2008, day-and-date with DVD. The most technologically advanced Blu-ray Disc release to debut from Fox to date, SUNSHINE features dual-stream picture-in-picture commentary, enhanced viewing mode, and the first-ever “surround sound mixing” feature, as […]
High Definition – PS3 Gets Blu-Ray 1.1, Sunshine First 1.1 Blu-Ray Spec, Blu-Ray Gets Awards
It’s another action packed week in the High Definition DVD Race and this week’s report is all about moves that Blu-Ray has been making. Every since HD-DVD Players were a big hit thanks to Toshiba’s $99 black Friday special it’s been pretty quiet on the HD-DVD front. I fully expect to get some news at […]
Two Threequels & a Fourquel: The Bourne Ultimatum, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and Live Free or Die Hard
Action movies have become increasingly sophisticated but the advent of CGI hasn’t completely taken over. The summer’s best threequels took radically different approaches: The Bourne Ultimatum was almost completely shot in camera; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was a bravura usage of CGI. Then there was the summer’s one fourquel, Live Free or […]
Peter Jackson and Newline Pucker Up for the Hobbit
After several years of contentious bickering and lawsuits, Peter Jackson and Newline Cinema have kissed and made up. This means The Hobbit is officially a go. Check out the full announcement.
Toshiba’s New HD-DVD Laptop is Smoking
The folks at Toshiba recently sent over two different laptops for me to review, the 13.5 inch U305 and the 17inch Satellite P205 Laptops. Both machines are pretty sweet, the main difference between the two machines is the fact that the P205 includes a beautiful 17-inch screen and is packed with an HD-DVD Drive and […]
Cloverfield the First Five Minutes!
Hey everyone, I’ve been hearing some buzz about JJ Abram’s new flick Cloverfield. Not sure what it’s about, but here’s the first look at the film!
I AM LEGEND: Two-Thirds of a Brilliant Movie!
I Am Legend will likely be the season’s most massive hit. It stars Will Smith and the trailers have been hyper-involving. Given that it’s at least the third attempt at bringing Richard Matheson’s classic SF novel to the big screen – and given that it really captures the essence of the novel for as long […]
The Kite Runner: Overly Condensed and Rushed, But Still Memorable!
Khaled Hosseini’s moving novel is a story of friendship betrayed and redeemed. It’s a dense four hundred and seventy-six page piece that gave North Americans one of their first looks at the day to day lives of the non-fundamentalist Muslims of Afghanistan – then showed them that the Taliban’s worst victims are their own people. […]