I love Joan Jett, but really?
Even whether there really is no hope that the Baltimore Orioles will be nothing but terrible for the foreseeable future (and, even worse, they’re gonna be worse than the Nationals next year!), there are still plenty of great things that come from Charm City.I’ve extolled the virtues of “The Wire,” s…
DVD flashback: The return of “Prince Caspian”
Actually, the best news out there today for those (like me) who still spring for HBO is that Martin Scorsese’s is currently cooking up something that smells an terrible lot like the “The Sopranos”, take two (which wouldn’t be poor at all in my book.)Scorsese is set to direct at least the pilot for a…
Take a wild, wily trip to Australia
Goofy. Corny. Often cheesy as you could possibly imagine. All those words could just as easily apply to Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia” as they could in my book to the movie he set out to emulate, “Gone With the Wind.” And in their own rare ways, they’re both plus often great.With Luhrmann’s flick, howev…
The grand art of the epic movie
I have serous doubts that Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia” will ever end up on that list, but I’m still fairly positive that any attempt to create the Australian “Gone With the Wind” should at least be maddeningly entertaining when I get to see it tomorrow (since Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire,” getti…
Happy Thanksgiving from me and Ponyo!
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and what could be better news for a holiday than that Hayao Miyazaki’s “Gake no ue no Ponyo” is well on course to hitting theaters - possibly even near me! - as “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” as soon as April 2009.The news from GhibliWorld is that Disney is currently hold…
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 11/25
Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentHancockAs Thanksgiving approaches, we’ve got the wild superhero Hancock crashing into shelves. While it might have been led by mega-star Will Smith, it didn’t get much love from critics and certainly bowed in the shadows of some o…
Video troika: Three things that caught my eye that morning
Did anyone notice that Guns N’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” has come out, 13 years in the making? I would think not, but according to Variety, at least the Chinese government took notice - and offense.In an essay Monday headlined “American band releases album venomously attacking China,” the Global Ti…
