A kind of low budget combination of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City and William Wyler’s Detective Story, Arnold Laven’s Vice Squad offers an entertaining West Coast twist to the police work shown...
The Phantom of the Opera gets a great showcase on Blu-ray with this performance at the Royal Albert Hall last October, in honor of its 25th anniversary. Like last year’s Blu-ray of Les...
After scoring as an international sensation and winning six 2011 Emmy Awards, Downton Abbey became last season’s most buzzed about new show (curiously, the first season won no major prizes in...
Winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at the SXSW Film Festival and being called “the next Woody Allen” must be heady stuff indeed for young filmmaker Lena Dunham. In Tiny Furniture, she...
When one hears the phrase “Japanese samurai movie,” naturally one’s thoughts immediately go to Akira Kurosawa who directed some of the finest ones ever made. But Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw...
In a news flash from Washington DC, Congressman Barney Frank announced that the HTF v. 2.0 will automatically HELOC your home when you log on. Proceeds will be deposited in Parker's account in order to "stimulate the economy". Fed Chairman Bernanke praised this as a means to make owning upgraded home theaters affordable to a larger segment of the public while supporting rust-belt equipment manufacturers.
So, what? A Vogon buys you a couple of drinks and you climb aboard a spaceship? Speak for yourself. I'm not that easy.
Don't forget about being strapped to a chair for the ear bleeding Poetry recital. Hmmm...speaking of which, someone seems to have mounted a Nascar style seat belt harness to my desk chair. Should I be worried???