Tag: Netflix

NEW ‘TERMINATOR’ FILM TO BE R-RATED That’s the ONLY news on ‘Terminator 5.’ Nothing else is really happening, just a tweet from the woman funding the film. This might be heresy, but I thought “Terminator 3” was damn good and

STEVEN SPIELBERG MIGHT PART RED SEA FOR WARNER BROS. Which Spielberg will show up to direct this one? If it’s the “Munich” Spielberg, the moral illiterate who sees an equivalency between Islamists who target the innocent and Israelis who target

This week on HomeVideodrome, Hunter reviews Haywire, Shame, and Warrior, Jim has cedar fever, and we plow through a cornucopia of new releases. Head on over to The Film Thugs to check it out. Okay, so I was a little

HOLLYWOOD’S NEWEST CRYBABIES: LEPERS … AND INDIA It doesn’t bother me when crybabies crybaby. That’s what crybabies do, especially GLAAD and CAIR — two of the biggest, fascist crybabies in the history of crybabying. What bothers me is that the

SIGOURNEY WEAVER: ‘ALL FILMS WILL EVENTUALLY BE 3D’ Weaver believes 2D will go the way of black and white, and I don’t completely disagree. Hollywood is absolutely freaked out over piracy, so freaked out they’ve embraced their own Patriot Act

NETFLIX USERS STREAM 3000 LIFETIMES’ WORTH OF VIDEOS IN 3 MONTHS And Hollywood thinks they can put this genie back in the bottle. Never. DID YOU KNOW KING KONG ALMOST BATTLED FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER? Alternate title: Did you know the greatest

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S NEW ALBUM IS HIS ‘ANGRIEST’ YET Like a new Stephen King novel, I miss being excited about upcoming Springsteen albums, and now even the ones I did enjoy (pre-2001) sound a little silly and simple. I haven’t even

DVD RELEASE DELAYS LEAVE RETAILERS UNFAZED This is why Hollywood hates the free market: Netflix appeared to shrug off the latest announcement from Warner Bros. Home Video that it will double the delay — to 56 days — between the

UPCOMING BLU-RAY /DVD RELEASES: AWESOME BOND COLLECTION Bond 50: James Bond celebrates fifty incredible years with golden anniversary Blu-ray collection. The world’s most successful secret agent meets the world’s best home entertainment experience available for worldwide pre-order starting today. In

Refreshing interview with John Heder courtesy of Vulture: It’s been seven years between the movie Napoleon Dynamite and FOX’s new animated series Napoleon Dynamite, and the original movie isn’t even streaming on Netflix Instant. “It’s not?” asked the once and

As is apparent from perusing Big Hollywood for any given amount of time that the current crop of Prime Time Television shows leave quite a bit to be desired. There is also nothing new under the sun, plots are rehashed,

The HomeVideodrome podcast returns with a meaty show this week, as Jim Dirkes and I discuss the movies we saw over our Christmas break, and of course, we catch up on the new releases. Speaking of Jim, he was kind

This is all about collapsing DVD sales, but what the studios refuse to come to terms with is that if their movies didn’t stink, we would purchase more of them. Right now, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is

Because of Hollywood’s default liberal culture, it’s almost impossible to watch comedy that has any social or political relevance that doesn’t go squarely after conservative targets with gleeful and mean-spirited offensiveness. For the most part, conservative comedy lovers would just

‘SCORPION KING 3’ ON BLU-RAY AND DVD JAN 10 In a dangerous, action-packed battle to regain his glory and reclaim the empire, Mathayus’s journey is steeped in intrigue, sorcery and romance, fueling this new film that spawned from the billion-dollar

Director David Fincher and two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey are ready to change the way we think about Netflix – and the TV landscape at large. The pair are teaming up for the new political thriller “House of Cards,” a

Director Brad Bird is basking in boffo box office returns for his first live-action feature, “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” But Bird proved he could tell a terrific story way back in 1999 with the beautifully crafted animated film “The

Fascinating analysis. Four key points have been cherry-picked by me, but you’ll want to read the whole thing. THR: 1. “We believe 2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry and serve as a historic inflection point for

NETFLIX SERIES ‘LILYHAMMER’ STREAMS FEBRUARY 6 Here’s part of the press release: “Lilyhammer,” a gripping fish-out-of-water story set in Norway and starring “The Sopranos” mainstay and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, is a new Original Series premiering on

Good article from the “L.A. Times,” touching on how the Internet has forever altered television viewing habits and what this means for the business end of it: Television production studio executives long have been wary of Hulu and other forms

‘LADY AND THE TRAMP’ ARRIVES ON BLU-RAY FEBRUARY 7 The link above is a hi-def clip from the upcoming Diamond Edition, which will be a three-pack that includes a Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy. ‘TRANSFORMERS’ FANS REJOICE Coming Jan 31:

‘WAR HORSE’ WARNING FOR PARENTS FROM ORSON BEAN Yesterday Orson emailed me a heads up for parents with respect to Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse,” which hits theatres Sunday. Some vague plot points are given away, so consider this a spoiler

I push the squeaky metal glass door open to the store known as Blockbuster. I’m here to return one B-movie for another one to feed my copious addiction to way-too-cool-for-its-own-good genre fiction. I drop the movie off and get a