Tag Archives: Video

History’s most famous stoners reunite after 20 years in the straight desert: The comedy duo is reuniting after 20 years for a new feature set up at New Line Cinema that will catch up with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s wacky stoner personas in the present day. The untitled project …

This is a strange story: the Chicago police issued a community alert describing a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults as looking like Ice Cube. I guess if he does he does, but then a local TV station relayed the alert over the air and played an Ice …

Watching the debut of fx network’s newest “edgy” teleseries Nip/Tuck last night, I found myself thinking of ol’ Jim Rockford. As portrayed by James Garner in the classic 70’s crime series, Rockford was a hard-luck detective to the nth degree: he lived in a crappy trailer, barely eking out a …

We mentioned back in May this was coming. In the interim they seem to have addressed the disposal problem: Set to roll out in September with eight titles in four markets, Disney’s new EZ-D DVD self-destructs 48 hours after the purchaser opens the special airtight package. The disc is composed …

ReplayTV caves to content industry: new model will drop two key features – it will no longer be able to skip entire commercials automatically, or send recorded programming over the Internet. Sonicblue Inc., the former owner of ReplayTV, was considered the company in the digital video recording industry that most …

Brad Stone thinks he knows why The League film sucks: One of the film’s problems, and the comic book’s strengths, is enormously relevant in an age of rampant online file-sharing and courtroom wars over extension of the copyright term. In the comic book, Moore shows the benefit of having a …

Of course it can only be terrible when someone’s pet is eaten by coyotes. But if the pet is Sharon Osbourne’s black Chihuahua, Lulu, well, it’s hard to resist a quick, muffled chuckle. I don’t believe Chihuahuas are real dogs anyway – they clearly have rodent blood. “It’s so heartbreaking,” …

MTV does Spider-Man.

Bruce Lee died 30 years ago tomorrow at 32. I remember vividly watching Fists of Fury and The Chinese Connection, dubbed into English, at the old Warners movie theater in San Pedro in ’72 before we moved to Ohio. I thought he was magical, immortal, the coolest – he made …

Selling CD and DVD manufacturing business for $1.05 billion: Under pressure from Wall Street, AOL Time Warnerhas pledged to cut its debt to $20 billion by the end of 2004 and has been pursuing a number of deals, including the sale of its sports teams and a possible joint venture …