Tag Archives: Video

The price of making a “real movie” keeps coming down: Friends star Courtney Cox was not fazed when she saw the consumer video cameras on the set of award-winning psycho thriller November. ….And his indie film’s surprisingly low budget, just $150,000 instead of the $1-2 million low-budget movies usually cost, …

We watched Christina Aguilera host Saturday Night Live last night with a fair amount of apprehension. They allayed some of those fears in the monologue, confronting the skank issue head-on by having Jimmy Fallon telling her to, you know, “dress like Christina Aguilera,” and by showing a past Weekend Update …

I have no particular preconceptions going into the frenzy over Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ film. I think he has been great in any number of movies and I do not minimize his talents as a director. I also have no problem with his depicting Jews as culpable …

The most egregious aspect of the vile DMCA is the anti-circumvention provision that says you cannot abet copy-protection circumvention, even though the consumer has the right to make a fair use copy of a DVD. This catch-22 mentality has now been reaffirmed by a San Francisco federal judge: In a …

Very interesting column from Plain Dealer TV critic Michael Dawidziak today on the perils of 24-hour television news and the whirlwind news cycle: Perhaps Shakespeare, writing 400 years ago, somehow envisioned the era of 24-hour news channels when he coined that line about “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” It could …

Speaking of tax loopholes, the British film industry claims it is being shut down thanks to the closure of one: Tulip Fever, starring Jude Law, was to start filming in April – but is on hold after the government closed a tax loophole it said was being abused. And The …

If ever there was a character on broadcast TV who deserves the appellation, it’s Nina Myers of 24. In a mere three seasons, the lean nightmare preternaturally portrayed by actress Sarah Clarke, has betrayed her country three times, killed former lover Jack Bauer’s wife and unborn child, aided and abetted …

Clevelander Joe Eszterhas, Hollywood screenwriter more famous for being a dickhead than anything else, has a new memoir out about his complete change of life brought about by cancer of the larnyx, among other things. I’m glad he stopped smoking and drinking – good for him – but when the …

Responding to criticism over insults hurled at French-Canadians on his show last week, Conan O’Brien apologized last night: “People of Quebec, I’m sorry,” the host of NBC’s “Late Night” show said in English, as a translator recited in French, with English subtitles, “People of Quebec, I’m an albino jackass.” “We …

In the middle of a takeover bid from Comcast, Disney completes deal for the late Jim Henson’s Muppets, who have always been Disney-esque anyway: Henson’s daughter Lisa said her father always believed that Disney would be a perfect home for the Muppets. ….”In the months before his death in 1990, …