After spawning two series that ran for a combined fifteen years – and two straight-to-video movies – the Stargate franchise, Stargate Universe, got canceled just as it was beginning to peak. The season two DVD set contains the final episodes of the series, along with a host of extras and a look at why the […]
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Three MGM Classics Hit Blu-ray Just In Time For The Oscars®!
Last Tango In Paris, Moonstruck and Rain Man will be released in Blu-ray on February 15, 2011. Details follow the jump.
Bond 23, Meet November 9!
Daniel Craig will return to the role of James Bond for a third time. MGM and EON Productions – whose Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have been with franchise for many years – have announced that the twenty-third Bond film, simply referred to as ‘Bond 23,’ will be released on November 9, 2012. Production […]
Movie News: Production Round-Up Week of 5.28.10
Hollywood is having the same financial ups and downs as the rest of business world. On the down side, MGM , which is almost $4 billion in debt, said on Thursday that its lenders agreed to let it skip interest and principal payments until July 14. In a news release, the struggling studio said […]
DVD REVIEW: Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series – Edgier Then the Original; More Fun Than the Latest Flavor!
Stargate Atlantis premiered as the original Stargate series, SG-1, was going into its eighth season. It was immediately darker than the original – there was a key death in the premiere, and the alien race they encountered, the Wraith, didn’t require technology to suck the life from their victims. There was also the possibility that […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Hot Tub Time Machine – Like It Says on the Box!
It’s not often that a movie title tells you exactly what you’re going to get in the title – and sometimes that can be a bad thing [*cough*Snakes on a Plane*cough*]. In the case of Hot tub Time Machine, though, the result is a comedy that’s both subtle and vulgar – and has heart.
MOVIE NEWS: New Fame 2009 Trailer Rocks and new Photos
The folks at MGM sent over some new pictures and a brand new trailer for Fame. I told you all how much I loathed that first trailer, that it lacked that sense of urgency, dedication and feeling of desperation that the original movie brings forth. Well apparently MGM listened because the new trailer gives you […]
TELEVISION: Stargate Atlantis Goes Out With A Bang – And No Cliffhanger!
Stargate Atlantis [Sci Fi Channel, Fridays 9/8C] closes up shop one week from tonight with its one hundredth episode – but before we get to that double milestone, there’s a small matter of a series of inexplicable murders in and around Las Vegas. Subtly entitled Vegas, the show’s penultimate episode opens as a clever riff […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Quantum of Solace: Vengeance is Mine, Quoth Bond!
If you’ve seen Casino Royale, then you’ve gotten all the character development you need to enjoy Quantum of Solace, the latest adventure of MI6 operative James Bond [Daniel Craig] – but it’s not all the characterization you’ll get before the film ends. This film, which begins twenty minutes after the end of Casino Royale is […]
HIGH DEFINITION: Bond goes Blu next Week
I’m such a freaking sucker for Bond that I’ve purchased almost all of MGM’s triple dip set of Bond films – I have three versions of all 21 movies. There was the regular non-restored collection, then the ultimate restored collection, then the super dooper ooper special edition collection and like a moron get suckered in, […]
MOVIE REVIEW: IGOR: Inspired Idea – Utterly Inadequate Film!
In the land of Malaria, things have changed since it was a sunny, happy place. Constant cloud cover and rain have ruined it for agriculture, so the king has decreed that the best way to survive is to develop an economy based on the creation of evil science. The country’s best mad scientists compete in […]