GWYNNETH GWYNETH PALTROW NOT READY TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN
Which is good, because I’m not ready to see more kids named after fruit.
CHRIS NOTH TO RETURN AS “MR. BIG” IN SEX AND THE CITY MOVIE
Industrial Light And Magic called in to somehow make him less pale. Seriously, can you imagine that bloodless face on the big [...]

It has been reported (and repeated on the IMDb) that as of the middle of this year sales of High Definition DVDs– That’s Blu-Ray and HD-DVD combined– Have finally surpassed those of VHS tapes.
Either way you look it at it’s sort of sad.
Considering the fact it’s damn near impossible to find a new VHS [...]

From The BBC:
Classic Hollywood romance Casablanca is to be remade - in an Indian setting.
The new version, entitled Ezham Mudra, will relocate the Humphrey Bogart film to contemporary south India.
Actor Suresh Gopi will play a restaurant owner who helps his lover, a Tamil separatist rebel fighting the Sri Lankan government, escape from India.

The director Rajeev [...]

NCIS: it isn’t so bad. But it’s not that good either. Last night’s episode, time-shifted for my enjoyment and to allow me to avoid commercials, concerned a suicide bomber and a locked-room mystery which the crusty but benign NCIS team must solve. I gotta give Donald Bellesario credit for making these characters just quirky enough [...]

This is an exciting time to be in San Francisco, and especially to be a San Francisco Giants fan. This very evening Barry Bonds hammered his 756th home run into the center field bleachers, surpassing Hank Aaron to become the all-time MLB Home Run champion. (Wait– This is sports. What’s this doing here? Hey, sports [...]

Box Office Weekly #078 (MP3 - 13.7 MB - 20 min)
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In todays show: Even YOU can afford Matt Damon… the other search engine finds a TV deal… and in this week’s commentary; Skot takes down foreign art films. All this and the Fantastic Four are selling short at 3.7, today on Box Office Weekly.
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Couldn’t bring myself to watch the big three last night. I missed SINGING BEE, for example, because I was enjoying a DVR’d WILD WILD WEST, and after that I chose to view BIOGRAPHY episodes of Vincent Price and Gene Tierney, who had both starred in LAURA, my Netflix choice for the week. I’m setting NCIS [...]

Rough week. TV the least of my problems.
In fact, TV turns out to be better than I thought — not the programming, but the reception. I had been using an amplified indoor antenna from RCA for my signal needs, but there is a ratty coaxial hookup on the wall, and one day I experimented. It’s [...]

This has been a hell of a summer film season. Business observers in the press and especially those who are involved in online media have called theatrical movies dead for several years now. But July closed 15% over last year, and unusually shows no sign of slowing down through August. Now the continuing rush of [...]

I ran across this letter to the editor in this morning’s (8-2-07) San Francisco Chronicle.
Center stage
Editor - The recent deaths of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni underscore the differences between European cinema and Hollywood. My God, what a world of difference! Hollywood is so flashy, superficial and commercial. Europeans are so deep, soul-searching and artistic.
They [...]