Earlier this week, the Netflix Player set-top box launched. The Roku hardware costs $100, and the minimum subscription plan that lets you stream content is $9 a month. This would have been awesome, except for three serious deficiencies: Limited selection…
Category: movies
Ken Levine’s Summer Movie Previews
Instead of making my own jokes about upcoming movie releases, I’ll let a professional do it this time. Ken Levine “has worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, BECKER, DHARMA & GREG, and has co-created his…
Iron and Weed
The last two movies D and I saw in theatres were Iron Man (two weeks ago) and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (last night). We had low expectations for both films, for different reasons, but ended up enjoying…
Free Comic Book Day
Since we’re currently traveling, and I don’t have the time or access to resources I would at home, I get my news from an odd variety of sources. For example, it was a hotel copy of USA Today, perused over…
Jane’s Forbidden Book Kingdom
Over the weekend, D and I saw two movies from opposite ends of the genre spectrum: The Forbidden Kingdom (in a theatre) and The Jane Austen Book Club (on DVD). Both were enjoyable, for different reasons. Kingdom is all archetypes…
Smart People
Editorial Note: Since I’ll be on the road for the next few months, most of my blogging will happen over on Travels With Our Cats. You can subscribe to both blogs using my combined feed from Yahoo! Pipes. (Not responsible…
Today In History: One Week Ago
Last Wednesday, for my belated birthday present, D took me on the “Deluxe VIP” Warner Brothers studio tour. (I didn’t want to do it last fall because of the writers strike. I won’t cross a picket line.) The tour was…
No More Secrets, you see
Better late than never, right? Here’s Crissy’s highlight video from last year’s Game: My favorite of her photos is this group shot: But Karl re-enacting a scene from the movie runs a close second: I’m also looking forward to Jan’s…
“In God We Trust”
An award-winning short film made in 2000 by Jason Reitman, director of Juno and Thank You For Smoking. The kid’s got talent: