Over the summer a new theater opened near us and as a promotional tool they featured some free movie days for kids. One of the films featured was Curious George. I took my 4-year-old-son to it and we really loved...
Bruce Springsteen releases his new album today, We Shall Overcome: the Seeger Sessions. Talking to an AP reporter following a rehersal with his new Seeger Sesssions Band, Bruce had this to say about his fan's reaction to his musical directions:Your...
Although a lot of film fans and geeks like myself will tell you that "it's all about art and creativity" when it comes to filmmaking, I do like to check out boxOfficeMojo.com to see how much money current movies are...
I read through Wil Wheaton's thoughts following Sunday night's Oscar telecast and I share quite a few opinions. I too was really irked that they cutoff some of the winner's speeches; most notably at the very end during the award...
So, the 78th Annual Academy Awards Nominations were announced this week and I was just reading the list over again and a few things popped into mind. First, I've not seen even half of the nominated films, but I'm feeling...
With all the talk of late around podcasting, I'm wondering when and if folks are going to create fiction (or narrative) type content. Right now, most everything I hear on podcasts is basically talk radio format. But, I'm thinking, why...
Since the release of Revenge of the Sith recently, I’ve found myself in a Star Wars frame of mind a lot lately. And I really have to say that, no matter what your individual take is on the movies, love...
While poking around on Gizmodo recently (in particular while reading a piece on iTunes 4.6) I stumbled across a joint venture between Gawker Media (publishers of such blogs as Gizmodo, Gawker, Fleshbot, Defamer) and Nike called The Art of Speed....
Some bits and pieces of movie news this week. First of all comes Newsweek, which has a really great review and story about Harry Potter and the The Prisoner of Azkaban. They say its the best of the Potter movies...
I'm in a LOTR and Return of the King mood this week and it shows itself here with a plethora of related articles. Here's yet another... From The New Yorker comes this essay about J. R. R. Tolkien's true inspiration...
On the New York Times' movie page dedicated to the Lord of the Rings, I found this review of the Return of the King published in 1956....
It's now less than 48 hours until the opening of Return of the King and the advance word on this final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy has been through-the-roof. I noticed tonight that there is already a...
I have know idea what this movie is about or anything about who's behind it, but this trailer for The Triplets Of Belleville looks amazing. It also looks crazy, insane, bizarre, brilliant, scary and thrilling, but amazing nonetheless. It also...
I am very much excited and anticipating the new (and final) episode of the Star Wars saga, due in May of 2005. With the advent of the internet, I was able to follow closely the making of The Phantom Menace...
And, still, the debate continues....
The shoeboxes of 8mm clips of family vacations, little league games, trips to the Grand Canyon, baptisms and weddings can get a second life as part of a multi-city film festival described in this NPR piece. UPDATE: More on this...
On quicktime.com, I just came across the trailer for Step Into Liquid. Now, I know basically next-to-nothing about the sport of surfing, but this documentary is simply amazing. I can't imagine the work that went into getting some of the...
The Cartoon Network has acquired all 49 episodes of the cult Fox show The Family Guy. Best of all, they're running it everynight against Leno and Letterman and, according to this Newsweek story, the Family Guy is the winner among...
Pixar's Finding Nemo debuted last week and did great business over the weekend. But even more importantly, the film is a great success critically. On MetaCritic, the film has a whopping 94 rating, and RottenTomatoes gives the film a 99%...
This sounds like a great package: the three original films restored and remastered in 5.1 surround and a fourth disk of extras. There will be no director's commentary, though, which really disapoints me. Director tracks are one of my favorite...
Yippee! A new Finding Nemo trailer here!...
I don't own a TiVO, but I know a little bit about the technology from friends who do have them and seem to love them. Well, I had no idea that TiVO was compiling viewer statistics for such things as...
I'm such a huge fan of movie trailers. In fact, when DVDs first started coming on the scene a few years back, I was so excited about the extras on the disks, that I imagined myself sitting on the couch,...
There was a lot of discussion following the rollout last week of the redesigned Macromedia.com homepage. A lot of discussion! And the good folks at Macromedia were listening. They've made some subtle modifications to the homepage and published this report...
Sony has announced the first entry in the next generation of consumer-level blue-laser DVD recorders that utilizes the blu-ray technology. Blue lasers have a shorter wavelength--405 nanometers compared to around 650 nanometers on DVD systems--and that means the laser beam...
Perusing the movie trailer stacks over at Apple, I came across these gems: Winged Migration In America The Good Thief Down With Love Down With Love just looks so fun and "designy." Plus, it's got Obi-wan Kenobi!...
I love this sort of thing. Two lawsuits have been filed in Chicago recently as a form of protest over the increasing amount of "commercial creep" before feature films. Both suits demand that theater advertisements list the actual start times...
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