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 [...]

I suppose if you’re going to try and market the 98th DVD release of a movie, you’d better come up with a new way to make people buy it, but this gimmicky Princess Bride 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition flip-over cover reaches previously unknown levels of ineffectual. Click on the thumbnail to see a blown-up view [...]

Adam at DVD Panache is right on the money when he wonders about the vaguely Bill Murray-like thing pictured on the Groundhog Day 15th Anniversary Edition DVD (click the picture for a larger view). It’s pretty hilarious that a “special” edition for a movie that’s been released on DVD several times already can’t seem to [...]

I know what you’re thinking. Here I haven’t written to you in roughly 36 years, and all of a sudden I’m going to drop you a line and make a request - just like everyone else does at this time of year. And I’m sorry, Santa, but as I get older the idea of Christmas [...]

I saw this flashy banner ad on CHUD.com recently, in which we’re encouraged to buy the DVD for Captivity, available October 30th.
Apparently the DVD marketers have elected not to focus on the film’s scenes of torture and imprisonment. And they refuse to hype the young female charms of starlet Elisha Cuthbert. And if you’d [...]

Ah, the holidays - when the movie culture fondly turns its attention to year-end lists, award grabbery and the shameless retail huckstering of DVD reissues. It’s enough to make any cynical heart start vibrantly beating again with enough Christmas cheer to make old Ebenezer himself plotz right over into his yorkshire pudding.
But really, it’s important [...]

While pruriently watching channel-surfing past the season finale of Nip/Tuck last night, I caught an FX promo for the network’s airing of Spider-Man 2 on January 2nd, ostensibly as a big-ticket lead-in to its new show Dirt.
The Spidey promo announced that FX would be showing an extended version of SM2 as well as a [...]