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Our hero, reluctant Ben Affleck look-alike Matt Welch, tells his mythic tale of Google, insidious blogger influence upon mass culture, and the relentless march of Reality TV (Idol finals this week – woo hoo!) through the ranks of the willing and otherwise: I — who have watched just three hours …
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48 Hours to Live: Disney to Rent DVDs
New rental program where DVDs will self-destruct after 48 hours and don’t have to be returned: Disney home video unit Buena Vista Home Entertainment will launch a pilot movie “rental” program in August that uses the self-destruction technology, the company said on Friday. The discs stop working when a process …
Read More »The Matrix Reloaded Reviews and News
Neo news – we have become Matrix Reloaded headquarters with multiple reviews and news of the new film covering a bewilderingly wide range of opinion and angle of observation listed here in reverse chronological order, to whit: The MILFtrix Re-boner’d – by Jim Treacher Warning: Spoilers for, and scatterbrained whining …
Read More »DVD Wars
321 Studios in court challenging the Hollywood studios over its DVD-copying technology. As we have said here ad nauseum, all citizens have a right to make a back up copy of their own DVDs and music CDs. The DMCA denies citizens this right; ergo, the DMCA is crap. Lisa Bowman …
Read More »Putumayo and Global Soul
I love the Putumayo World Music label – now ten years young – everything from their wildly eclectic, lovingly curated collections like Arabic Groove, World Lounge, Samba Bossa Nova, and African Groove, to their colorful, iconic cover art by Nicola Heindl, to their “it’s a small world after all” optimism. …
Read More »Matrix Finally Here
The movie is big news, the video game may be bigger news: Movie-themed video games aren’t exactly a novel idea, but none can match the hype surrounding Atari’s Matrix game, which will work on all the major gaming platforms. The game is being pumped up at this week’s E3 trade …
Read More »“Babies Come With Hats!”
West Wing's (and Aaron Sorkin's) seasonal finale. . .
Read More »Crowe-heads Alert
Newly married and musically improving Russell Crowe and his band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts are coming to the U.S. to perform live. For Crowe-heads that’s the good news: the bad news is they are performing only three shows and they’re all in Chicago: Russell Crowe & 30 Odd Foot …
Read More »A Mighty Wind
Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Friends take on pop folk. . .
Read More »“Perfect Film” Formula
Robotic much? To create a hit movie directors need to combine seven essential elements in the right proportions to ensure they have success, according to university lecturer Sue Clayton. Her research has revealed that the blueprint for a perfect feature must have: action 30pc, comedy 17pc, good v evil 13pc, …
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