Tag Archives: Video

I recently watched two Steve Earlie movies: Steve Earle on Austin City Limits and Just An American Boy. He is one of my favorite musicians since he is so articulate, intelligent and daring. These two dvds, especially when watched together, provide a good look at the complete Steve Earle. The …

You have to feel for TiVo, who, after pioneering the concept and inventing the DVR and fighting a rear-guard action against video content providers, who claimed the very act of digitally recording TV and movie content for the purpose of time-shifted and advertisement-cleansed viewing was worse than a Mann Act …

Everything you think you know about Al Jazeera is wrong. You can think of “Control Room” as being like the opposite of “Outfoxed,” the documentary about the Fox Network. Where Outfoxed deftly demonstrated how biased, slanted, one-sided Fox really is, Control Room clearly shows how Al Jazeera is more balanced, …

More than 30 years after Deep Throat's provocative debut, this documentary examines the legacy that the most profitable film of all-time left on society.

Often compared to his Lost In Translation role as fading actor Bob Harris, Bill Murray’s role as computer pro Don Johnston in the latest Jim Jarmusch film (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law), Broken Flowers, is similar in that the two characters are old and have fame that neither relishes. …

Satire Alert! Asked to comment, Cruise did what he should not do: He commented.

Every village has an idiot, or so the saying goes. And apparently in this village that idiot is M. Night Shyamalan, who went from making the great Sixth Sense to the so-so Unbreakable to this piece of cow manure. The plot is predictable, the story boring. The acting…well, the acting …

In the world of tomorrow, 9-5 is a life sentence.

Demonstrating some serious interdenominational unity, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The WB and UPN will join forces tonight for a primetime special entitled Shelter From the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast, to raise funds for those impacted by the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. The six broadcast networks will …

I haven’t looked forward to a television show as much as I looked forward to Jon Stewart’s take on Katrina, which ran last night. And wow, it was perfect. Show excerpts, courtesy of the Daily Kos “Now, for you people who are saying “Well, stop pointing fingers at the president…left-wing…the …