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And you definitely shouldn't be intimidated by using the calibration discs. I don't know about Avia (never had it), but I've got Digital Video Essentials (and used the old Video Essentials before it), and the thing is extremely user-friendly. The first time through, there's a lot of extra stuff...

Never mind.

They're going to have an uphill ratings battle this fall, too, with the new Sunday time slot. They'll be scheduled opposite Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which is also a fairly family-friendly reality show, and is already entrenched as a Sunday habit for a lot of people. Add to that the...

I have a friend who did exactly that one Halloween, hitting the city's best costume shop the day of the party and collecting as much cheap crap as he could. Cracked everybody up. His utility belt contained a spatula, one Converse All-Star, and a rubber chicken.

Technically, Louisville is nearly a whole state away, since it's on the Kentucky/Indiana border about 130 miles up I-65 from the Tennessee line. But I've lived in Louisville my whole life, and attended college in Bowling Green, KY (closer to Nashville), so I'd say the weather is comparable...

Deadwood, I believe, falls outside the scope of this year's Emmy nomination period. Season 2 aired last spring, and Season 3 began this summer (using the showbiz definition of "summer" as Memorial Day to Labor Day, not the meteorological seasons). Meanwhile, the final season of Six Feet Under...

Overall, I liked the movie. Chalk me up as one of its supporters. One element I really liked was the matching of Lex's statement about prison--"In there, the greatest criminal mind the world has ever seen is worth less than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal in your...

There's not a lot to the new cut, but some decent moments. SPOILER WARNINGS, OF COURSE: I believe there's a little extra at the beginning of the movie, in the scene where Ramsey (Hackman) introduces Hunter (Washington) to the other officers at the Naval base (I don't recall the TV interview...

I can't remember the name of it, but there's a direct-to-video flick that has a nearly identical cover to Ghost Ship's fairly creative ship/skull double-image.

I, too, love Ridley Scott commentaries and can't wait for Matchstick Men. I also like the Lord of the Rings commentaries, primarily the Jackson/Walsh/Boyens tracks and the cast tracks. For both movies released so far, they've recorded certain cast members together in ways that bring much...

This is the TV thread. You didn't wander in the wrong door again, did you, Malcolm? That can be dangerous, if it were, say, a public restroom. ;) I think the setup is that, at the beginning, all of the eligible bachelorette pool is made up of little women, but that there is an Average...

RE: CGI in Return of the King: In the Two Towers DVD commentary, Peter Jackson mentions that the aerial shots of the Dead Marshes were a happy find when he was flying out to shoot Beacons shots. I think the flames and the lonely guards and shacks on the mountaintops were probably digitally...

And Martin Short as the body into which he was injected. I'm guessing that's what Scott's thinking of, as there is a fight between Quaid's character and the villain's henchman (the one with the detachable tools where his hand should be) inside the body.

The Aragorn "poster" from New Year's Day was actually an ad in the New York Times. They did it the last couple of years for the other two movies, and New Line wound up selling posters of the ads through their shop. I would expect that will turn out to be the case with this one, too, though I...

Given all this Zeppelin talk, I decided to give the first Boxed Set a spin. Put on Disc One last night, and I still feel "Whole Lotta Love" wasn't the right one to start the set. I'm pretty sure Jimmy Page sequenced the albums, but I think that was a misstep. The opening is a good kickoff, but...

The thing I really dislike about the dating reality shows is the emotional mumbo-jumbo the contestants all fool themselves into believing is their reason for being there. It's not the million-dollar prize that goes along with something; it's a "journey" they take to find that special someone...

I think there was also a home-video version of the Saga released in the early 1990s, which included The Godfather Part III. I've never seen it, but I assume this one didn't have TV-standards (language, sex, violence) edits to it. I know the chronological version usually shown on TV (USA...

It's not Ethan of Coen brothers fame. It's Etan Cohen (no typos, that's how it's spelled), who has worked on King of the Hill and several other TV projects. I'm just glad to see Mike Judge doing another live-action movie. Here's hoping it's a worthy follow-up to Office Space. (And while I...

I don't think the biggest problem with Michael Moore last year was that his political statement went against the President and the general mood of the nation at the time, but that he shouted and made no coherent point other than to show off that he had a podium from which to say something bad...

This is a new dating-reality show from FOX, coming to us just in time for the ending of My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. It's a Bachelor rip-off, but all the participants are little people. Yes, that's right. Little people. It's only two episodes, and there is a twist late in the competition...

If I remember it right, the boxed sets were issued like this: 1990: Boxed Set. Four-CD/Four-cassette/Six-LP 54-song box set. Crop circles with a zeppelin shadow, orange-tone color. Box for all formats was shaped in LP dimensions (roughly 12" X 12"). Songs taken from all Led Zeppelin albums...

On the TV side, I'm always irked that they lump all of the supporting performances together into one mass category (well, one male and one female). The skills required to make a performance riveting in series acting, miniseries acting and movie acting are quite different, as are the skills...

I think he meant he started it in order not to have to worry about the light at night, but since he sits every time he pees now (day or night), he reads. It came out kind of incongruous in his argument, but it works okay for me.

I, for one, look forward to watching the Globes each year more for the fun factor than the results of the voting. I know the HFPA is a small group, that their membership isn't as highbrow as the show's popularity leads you to believe, and that their track record gets a little freaky (like with...

That kind of bugs me, too. I understand the need to base the show in L.A. and have the President there, too, but some of the timing is just off for the Pacific Time Zone. I liked that the President's debate was at 5:00 (8:00 Eastern, prime-time network TV), but he was finally holding a press...

I think it's got to do with the high visibility, more than anything else. It's a big event with huge press coverage, moreso than SAG or any of the others (though a few of them are trying to catch up). Academy voters may not read every critics' ten-best list or check on every guild award, but a...

Don't forget that the publicist's hatchet-job article on the Bluth family was accompanied by another article about George-Michael's "philanthropy": "BUM GETS BALLOON." (Oh, and the publicist was played by Jill Ritchie, younger sister of Kid Rock, if you can believe that.)

I liked this one. Larry's obsession with The Weatherman (I love that his name turned out to be "Skip") was very George Costanza. And for the first time all season, I felt sympathy for Larry in pretty much every situation he had going on. Susie and her brat daughter were definitely in the...

I think Lennox's song narrowly escapes these criticisms for a couple of reasons. For one, the melody of its chorus is worked into the score of the feature during a major scene (Mount Doom), almost as if the score is echoing something we haven't heard yet. Secondly, the lyric is tied so closely...

And I've got to think that the nominations for Visual Effects probably set some sort of record for "greatest number of words in only three movie titles." You've got Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: The...