Did you watch the MTV Video Music Awards last night? Neither did I. A lot of people didn’t. But man, is Britney Spears getting a lot of coverage for her performance! Sadly for her, the word isn’t good. For example, witness Perez Hilton:
Are you f…ing serious??? What you did was disrespectful to your few remaining [...]

OSAMA BIN LADEN RELEASES NEW VIDEO

Note before and after pictures - in addition to his beard magically losing the grey, he just appears, I don’t know, sharper. But that cassock is so 2005!
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL STAR NUDE PICTURES UNCOVERED ONLINE
Thank God the whole cast is over 30.
MOURNERS LAMENT THE PASSING OF PAVORATTI
Though all admit that [...]

Just a quick note that after a week in server-crash hell, the comments are now enabled, up ‘n running, ready to go. For kicks, say something about that.

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In todays show: China thinks movies control your opinions… ABC and Warner Brothers think you’ll sit still for a TV show on your computer… and in this week’s commentary; I make my peace with cable TV. All this and Halloween can’t come early enough, [...]

As Dr. Herbert West, the ultra-nerd protagonist of THE REANIMATOR would chide, “you are a poor scientist!” And so I am. About two months ago I moved into a swingin’ bachelor pad, and I thought it would be a neat experiment in this day and age to attempt to live without cable TV. After all, [...]

I’m just going to point over to this article on BBC news, which is about three British things I know little or nothing about: Amy Winehouse, the “new rave” band The Klaxons and the Nationwide Mercury Prize. As far as I can parse: The Mercury Prize is an awards show and The Klaxons took top [...]

By all accounts the inexorable march toward digital TV broadcasting is ahead of us in Europe, which is why I am suprised to read that HDTV is stalled there. Parts of England are already exclusively digital. So what’s holding up the cool part of digital broadcasting?
Prices for flat-screen TVs are set to fall by a [...]

Just about a month ago, I posted a screed about the continuing perception that European films are more “soulful” than American fare. Part of the argument this perception is baseless twaddle was the fact that European film industries are backed up (or bailed out) by their government. How’s about a nice little slice of evidence [...]

The movie just seen was Idiocracy, Mike Judge’s film from last year which just started popping up on the High-Def premium channels. And yeah, I will often wait for a film to show up in HD before I watch it. So as you’ll soon read I may be part of the problem.
If your are worried [...]

I read a story on the podcast before last about the TV Academy’s brave attempt to limit the number of producers who can accept an Emmy for a show. They wanted to cap it at around eleven. It was a bid to save money on statuettes, I think, or limit the acceptance speeches for one [...]