Thank you, Eddie Murphy. All is forgiven. »

By Burbanked on Jun 25, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrities, Movies  |  1,128 views  |  

Finally, some good news coming out of Hollywood! I just read today that a revolutionary new technology has been created to help moviegoers stop feeling so bad about spending money for substandard product at the theater. You know I’m a big fan of spending my movie money wisely, so I just had to share this [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: Boffo “Smart” Makes H’w'd Remake “Happy” »

By Burbanked on Jun 24, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrities, Development Heck, Movies, TV  |  775 views  |  

Hollywood has reacted quickly to the worldwide blockbuster weekend success of Get Smart with a huge announcement that Sony has secured the remake rights to classic TV skein Happy Days. John Davis of Davis Entertainment (Daddy Day Camp, Norbit, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Fat Albert) will produce for Sony who will distrib after [...]

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Dear Sharon Stone: »

By Burbanked on Jun 24, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrities, Gossip, Movies, Off the Rails, TV  |  947 views  |  

Hi, Sharon Stone. It’s me, Burbanked. I figured, as a fellow western Pennsylvanian and an accredited member of the burgeoning Pittsburgh film bloggers community, I would take the initiative to reach out and bestow upon you the kind of true kindness that only kind people can give so freely and kindly.
Sharon Stone, it’s time for [...]

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My VHS hidden treasures - gone but not forgotten. »

By Burbanked on Feb 25, 2008 in Blogging, DVD, Movies  |  1,278 views  |  

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 [...]

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The totally unrelated power of the marketing balloon. »

By Burbanked on Oct 29, 2007 in Blogging, Off the Rails  |  2,493 views  |  

What a splendid idea. S.T. VanAirsdale at The Reeler Blog has created a Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon in which film blogs have been challenged to throw off the shackles of film blogging and write about something completely different.
Marketing messages are absolutely subjective. Marketers, of course, would have you believe otherwise, because it’s our job to create [...]

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The Snob, the hands, the Fearless and the blog-a-thon. »

By Burbanked on Oct 18, 2007 in Blogging, Movies  |  605 views  |  

Grievously, I haven’t had the time to contribute to the ripping great Close-Up Blog-a-thon which is concluding this Sunday over at The House Next Door. Lots of very, very good entries over there, with terrific insight into movie aesthetics piled right up to the ceiling.
For his close-up post, Culture Snob decided to focus on [...]

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A not-terribly-critical view of the Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon: thumbs up with four stars! »

By Burbanked on Dec 4, 2006 in Blogging, Movies, Views and Reviews  |  1,151 views  |  

Zowie! Andy Horbal’s No More Marriages! Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon that went on this weekend - all this weekend - has been a blockbustery success, with close to 40 entries from writers big, small, new, old and everything in between.
And one thing that is now clearer to me than it was before - and really, it [...]

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