QOTD: Does a film winning awards make you more (or less) likely to want to see it?
With Argo and Skyfall both out on DVD timed to coincide with their Oscars and BAFTAs buzz, the studios clearly hope awards influence home viewers…
dvd/vod/streaming
question of the day: How important is DVD packaging and presentation to you?
I’m not talking about digital content such as video featurettes or commentary tracks. I’m talking purely about the physical container holding all the ones and zeroes.
question of the day: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen?
John Carter doesn’t work, but with some updating and shifts in emphasis, the Victorian Sherlock Holmes and War of the Worlds have made recent — and very successful — transfers to the big screen. Has entertainment moved on too much for popcorn crowds to care about classic pulp presented classically?
question of the day: What old TV shows desperately need to be reinvented or rebooted?
I vote for Star Cops, the BBC’s criminally short-lived near-future science fiction series from 1987, which would be fabulous to revisit…
question of the day: What TV shows that aren’t on DVD should be?
What television series are you missing, and would love to be able to buy or rent to see again?
Piggy (trailer)
Looks like just one more violent flick about vigilantism…
The Great Dictator (retro trailer)
If you’re tempted to complain that Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming The Dictator is in bad taste, take a look at how Charlie Chaplin’s similar The Great Dictator was promoted back in 1940…
The Raven (retro trailer)
Before you see John Cusack’s movie…
Easter Parade (retro trailer)
Where today there are cavalcades of explosions, pratfalls, and punchlines, once there were cavalcades of silly song-and-dance numbers.
American Battleship (trailer)
The mockbuster mavens at The Asylum are at it again…
