Ah, Invasion from Inner Earth. Never sat all the way through it, and growing up there were ample opportunities to do so.
Some correction to Dan’s fine and funny previous article: Invasion From Inner Earth is not Canadian, visual evidence to the contrary. It was made in and around Rhinelander, Wisconsin, a frozen outpost near the [...]

I’m proud of TPN:: Box Office Weekly. I believe the editorial and critical content on these pages is of a generally higher level than most media-news blogsites. At the end of the film Ratatouille, the food critic Anton Ego put forth a splendid little summary of what criticism truly is. I’ll excerpt it here:
In [...]

Having seen “Arrangements,” I soon saw the importance of getting the film ready for it’s life on the festival circuit. The first step to this end is preparing a definitive tape master: the other is showing those who actually made the film the need to do so.
Really, nobody needed convincing: the short was shot and [...]

Readers of this blog will notice an essential difference between Daniel’s writing style and mine. I’m not talking about the profound ones: It is self-evident that Daniel is a quick-witted, cynical Hollywood insider, and I’m the droll, semi-academic media observer with a thing for animated chicks. No- I’m talking about title showings.
According to the style [...]

The summer heat is beginning to be felt here in April: Comic-book movies are already jockeying for position. Next month sees the release of Iron Man, the Robert Downey Jr. starrer. And a few weeks later we get another Marvel comics release: The Incredible Hulk.
Everything about this new Hulk film seems to be in reaction [...]

SCENE: The rec room in a basement of a suburban home.
At a table strewn with lead figurines and hex-graph paper sit FOUR PLAYERS and a DUNGEON MASTER, behind his dragon-emblazed standing folder.
DUNGEON MASTER: Did you hear about Gygax?
JAPHETH BLIGH (8th-level warrior): What’s that? A troll? I’m taking out my +5 Longsword–
HELVETICA the MEDIUM (6th-level Cleric) [...]

In Today’s (3 March) IMDb Studio Briefing this little article hung out near the bottom:
Consumers Hanging Up on Cell-Phone Video
Few people are watching clips of television shows and other videos on cell phones, according to a report by research firm Diffusion Group reported in today’s (Monday) New York Times. “All our research keeps pointing at [...]

We have implemented a policy change at work.
As noted previously on this site, Digital Television is set to kick off in about a year. One of the profound changes this represents is to the very delivery form of television: It’s aspect ratio. SD (Standard Definition, Analog TV) is 4:3– and DTV is 16:9.
It’s as simple [...]

This week’s episode of Box Office Weekly marks, yes, the beginning of year three. I like to think that we had something to do with settling the writer’s strike. You’re right of course, I can’t support that assertion. But isn’t it possible that someone in power was listening to this show and thought - oh [...]

When you hear episode 102 of the podcast, up later today, you’ll hear the voice of Vivien Latham, depicted here as the brunette on the right. Vivien will be reading the bumpers on the show. I expect you all to treat her just like you do me, and [...]