Tag Archives: Video

A 1922 Rudolf Valentino film, long considered lost, has turned up – tell that one to Antiques Roadshow: The Dutch national film archive discovered the copy of melodrama Beyond the Rocks in a private collection left to the Filmmuseum. The movie, also starring Gloria Swanson, is in good condition apart …

Disney is making a film out of Douglas Adams’s comic sci-fi classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which incidentally began life as a radio series on the BBC. John Malkovich has been added to the cast in a role created by Adams for the film: It will also star Sam …

Written and Directed by David Mackenzie Adapted from the novel by Alexander Trocchi Young Adam grabs your interest right away when the dead body of an attractive young woman, wearing only a petticoat, is found floating in a Scottish river. Joe, a young drifter, first spots her and is affected …

Though I still wag my finger in a disapproving manner regarding the NY Times’ policy of charging for access to stories over one week old, I stand up and applaud two new resources they have just made available. The Times now offers over 5,000 movie reviews from its pages, including …

Simpsons creator Matt Groening is finally appearing as a guest for the first time on this Sunday’s show: Although Groening’s image has appeared on “The Simpsons,” including a framed photo on the wall of Comic Book Guy’s store, this will be his first speaking role on the animated series, Fox …

David Fiore has an interesting post about popular culture being our best tool for “conquering” the Middle East. Today the NY Times has a great stroy on what our forces take with them to the far reaches of the globe: American troops arrive for duty in Iraq with a rifle …

Director Yoji Yamada Written by Yoshitaka Asama and Yoji Yamada Based on the novels Tasogare Seibei, Chikkou Shiatsu and Iwaibito Sukehachi by Shuhei Fujiwara Although the title Twilight Samurai brings to mind an action film, it is actually a wonderful tale about the love between a man and woman, between …

Frank Henenlotter's low-rent classic, Basket Case

The Queer Eye franchise is expanding to include a new show to “fix” straight women: The women of America will soon have their chance to be criticized, stylized and lionized by a team of fashionable gay men. Cable television network Bravo on Wednesday said it will create a women’s version …

How does a spunky, slightly melancholy, New York-based alt-pop-rock singer-songwriter who looks like a cross between Marshall Crenshaw and John Cazale differentiate himself from the dozens of others who fit the same description? If you are Sam Bisbee you make a very fine album called High, with songs like “High …