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If I didn’t know this was true, I’d have guessed it was the Onion pulling our collective leg: NEW YORK – The Fox network is letting employees of some troubled small businesses decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off and turning the results into a reality show. The series, “Someone’s Gotta Go,” … more…
Cue the Kumar Goes to the White House jokes. Actor Kal Penn — of Harold & Kumar and House fame — has quit acting, at least for now, to work in Barack Obama’s White House. Penn will work with the arts and Asian-American communities. (If you want more info on Penn’s departure from House, check … more…
Following up in yesterday’s QOTD about Netflix’s new pricing for blu-ray rentals (hint: it went up, a lot) is this: Apparently Blockbuster is on the verge of throwing in the towel, and not voluntarily (“Blockbuster: may not be able to stay in business,” says the AP via Yahoo! Finance). I suspect how you feel about … more…
Netflix subscribers were surprised recently when the DVD-at-home service announced a price increase for access to blu-ray rentals. The sliding scale increase — if you’re on the 3-at-a-time plan, you pay an additional $4 per month; if you’re on 8-at-a-time, you pay a whopping $9 more — applies merely to have blu-ray discs in your … more…
$72.5 million for ‘Fast & Furious’? Really? It’s an estimate, but my great fear, when the actual box office numbers come in later today, is that that early guess at Fast & Furious’s humongous weekend box office take will be revised upward, as happens sometimes. $72.5 million for ‘Fast & Furious’? Really? It’s not like … more…
Next weekend will start my new regular weekend discussion of Doctor Who, as was suggested in last weekend’s open thread. At least that’s the plan. I know I often say I’m gonna get to stuff at a particular time and then it turns out it’s a week or a month or a year later before … more…
It’s Friday, which means new movies opening — lots of new movies, if you’re in New York or Los Angeles, more than even a dedicated film critic like me could ever see. But most people won’t go to the movies this weekend: most people, if they ever see anything new opening today, will wait for … more…
NBC’s long-running doctor drama ER wraps up forever tonight, and a recent article in Los Angeles Times suggests that when the series goes, so goes with it our former ideas about what constitutes network television, or perhaps simply “television” itself: With its technical innovations and reliance on realism, “ER” changed dramatic television. And when NBC … more…
Alex Proyas, the filmmaker behind Knowing is in a bit of a scuffle with the Australian film agency, Screen Australia, over tax breaks for the film, according to IMDB’s Studio Briefing: Proyas is arging that the film deserves more tax consideration because while it is set in the U.S., the film was shot in Melbourne. … more…
As of this writing, 11 movies will open wide in North America in the month of April. Which means that even if you’re an active moviegoing and see a movie each week, you’ve still gotta pick and choose (and it’s even worse if you’re in a city on the arthouse circuit, but let’s not make … more…
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