the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Crikey! What an Adventure: An Intimate Look at the Life of Steve Irwin’
Mmmm, the corpses of dead celebrities are so yummy!
dvd/vod/streaming
the dumbest DVD I’ve ever come across
I chose to highlight the Leo one because I’m a Leo, and I’d like to imagine that the workout consists entirely of a bit of a luxurious feline-esque stretching followed by a long nap. But hey, there’s an Astrology Workout for your sign too!
good news from the cutting edge
Netflix has sold out of those new settop boxes that will let you download movies instantly and watch them on your TV. And DVRs are actually making people watch more network television, at a time when the networks have been fretting about bleeding viewers to cable. Hopefully someone is paying attention to these trends. More … more…
Blockbuster is run by idiots
The Hollywood Reporter says the company is developing a new service “that will allow consumers to download movies onto portable devices in two minutes.” Got that? You have to get in your car and drive to a Blockbuster story — not forgetting to bring along a gadget that serves no other purpose other than transporting … more…
daily list: 10 great cinematic adaptations from Shakespeare
Keira Knightley is gonna be starring in a new movie version of King Lear? Not as the king, I hope, but okay. (She’ll be Cordelia, actually, to Anthony Hopkins’ Lear.) I’m starting my Summer of Hamlet, in preparation for my trip to England in the fall to see David Tennant play the mad Dane, as … more…
no life on Mars, but there are movies
That little Phoenix thing that just landed on the Red Planet? It took along its own in-flight entertainment: The disc – being described as the first interplanetary library – is made of a special silica glass designed to last hundred, if not thousands, of years into the future. It… holds a collection of Mars-themed artwork, … more…
‘Mad Money’ and women on film
So I wrote the other day about why there are so few women at the multiplex this summer — a riff on a similar complaint by The New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis — but then along this week comes Mad Money on DVD, which had its theatrical release just this past January. It’s … more…
daily list: my 10 most favorite movies set in Paris
I’m off to Paris tonight! It’s almost hard to believe I’ve never been there before: it feels like I know the city already because I’ve seen it so often on film. Now, as a New Yorker who has encountered people who think they know New York because they’ve seen it on TV and in the … more…
revisiting ‘Buckaroo Banzai’
Didja ever sit down to watch one of your favorite movies only to suddenly realize — as it begins and you get into it and get reminded how much you goddamn love this movie — that it’s probably been like 10 years since you watched it? Cuz, you know, our very favorite movies are always … more…
daily list: 8 movies to celebrate spring with
It’s the first day of spring — hoorah! Is it just me, or has this winter felt particularly long and gray and wet and cold? (And to all my readers below the Equator, I hope you had a nice summer, and welcome to autumn.) Put yourself in the springtime mindset with these movies: 1. What’s … more…
