Nice. Variety is reporting that Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the Oscar-winning actor/songwriters of the great movie Once have signed a music publishing deal with the Warner Music Group.

The pair, as well as the bands they’ve played with, have never had recording contracts before, so it’s damn delightful that their music will be able [...]

Hopefully my newly-coined term “foodgrab” is soon to enter the film blog venacular. That being, of course, a screengrab from a classic or new movie which represents the first time the filmmaker shows us – wait for it – food.
In screenwriter/blogger John August’s film The Nines, we see food for the first time at the [...]

Time Warner is expected to announce that New Line Cinema will soon become a part of Warner Bros. /film looks like the first site to run this news, including a letter to employees from New Line bigwigs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne. Really, though, New Liners shouldn’t fear for their jobs; if the studio is [...]

(Stills courtesy of RopeofSilicon.com – Semi-Pro here and Doomsday here)

Hollywood is a place of extraordinary faces. When we think of our favorite actors and actresses and the movies that have defined them, we immediately think of the kinds of beauty that has been rendered improbably real and larger-than-life on the cinematic screen. The young Tom Cruise in Risky Business. The dashing Harrison Ford as [...]

Vote first. Ask questions later. Here’s a delightful distraction for a slow afternoon:

(via YBNBY)

Nifty: Rob over at The Projection Booth is hosting a VHS Blog-a-thon all this week until Thursday, 2.28.08. Make sure you stop by there and check out what folks have to say about this late great movie format.
Now that we’ve been told that Blu-Ray is The! Best! Format! Ever!, apparently what will follow is a [...]