Tag Archives: Video

Despite the outcry from the independent film community, the MPAA refuses to relent on the “screener” ban: A spokesman for MPAA President Jack Valenti issued a terse statement Thursday in response to a Wednesday morning conference call between Valenti and representatives of three studio subsidiaries in which they discussed possible …

Great trailer for Tarantino’s Kill Bill here. The movie opens today. Maybe he is finally back – love that Uma. I’m eager to hear the reviews, since realistically I won’t see it until DVD-time.

65-year-old Tommy Chong sent up the river for selling bongs.

As discussed at some length here, Love was hospitalized last week for a drug overdose after she attacked a friend’s house trying to get in. Now she’s been charged: Singer-actress Courtney Love was charged with a misdemeanor drug count Tuesday, less than a week after she allegedly tried to break …

“Up next on Antiques Roadshow: Hitler’s gonads!” When is an “antique” an antique? Meaning, when is an object transformed into a curiosity, stripped of its original context and turned into a product? Like in this case: FEDERAL officials want to know how an Ohio man got hold of a controversial …

Crawling across the country, American Splendor (HBO) finally opened in my neck of the woods this week. I’ve been anticipating this film with much the same fervor that your average X-Men junkie reserves for Hollywoodizations of Claremont’s World, so I was more than eager to see it. Being a comic …

The NBC-Universal deal announced on September 2 has officially gone through: Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. have reached an agreement to merge the French company’s Hollywood studio, cable TV networks and theme parks with GE’s NBC business, creating a media giant with about $13 billion in annual revenue. ….The …

This guy is GOOD. You want to learn how to beatbox? You just want to be amazed? No need for a drum machine with Max around.

Check out this photo: now Val Kilmer really does look like Jim Morrison – the fat, bearded one. Meanwhile, a special edition of the great Willow just came out on DVD, and Kilmer is making friends with his neighbors in New Mexico: Kilmer, who has a ranch in the mountains …

Current federal law on regarding electronic and digital privacy is contradictory, aribitrary, unconstituitional and in need of a drastic overhaul. The DMCA and the Patriot Act are the worst culprits: consumers’ cable-television records enjoy more legal protection than just about any other sort of electronic media or communications records: more …