Tag Archives: Video

So how does PBS' Skinwalkers stack up against the original book?

Another bad film? No, bad real life.

This fall’s movie boxoffice season was the biggest ever by an astonishing 32% according to the Hollywood Reporter: The national boxoffice was on a blistering pace during the autumn season as four films grossed more than $100 million each — an industry first — and cash registers rang up a …

Paramount to release Sunset Boulevard and Roman Holiday on DVD – restoration made from Library of Congress copies: “The whole point is to preserve the films the original way they were done in theaters,” said Phil Murphy, senior VP of operations for the TV division at Paramount. The studio used …

So you’ve watched football all day, hobnobbed with family and friends, stuffed yourself so full your eyes water and your breath is shallow – what’s left? Music specials on TV: Since 1998, when Celine Dion (news) drew strong ratings for CBS, concerts have become a holiday staple. This year, four …

HBO takes you to the Cathouse: Just when it strains credulity to see how far ordinary people will go for 15 minutes of fame, and what the public will watch, HBO airs a documentary next month in which patrons of a Nevada brothel happily appear on camera negotiating and consorting …

John Lettice reports in the Register on a paper delivered by Microsoft researchers saying file-swappers will win in the end: Growth in consumer access to broadband will make distributed file sharing networks more proof against such attacks, and in the interim a resumption of smaller overlapping groups, together with systems …

A German doctor performed a technically illegal public autopsy in London, charging admission, results to be shown on television: In a former brewery in east London on Wednesday night, the television cameras turned, a paying audience squirmed and gaped and Britain’s first public autopsy in 170 years since the days …

Hey, I missed the Victoria’s Secret show last night picking up my parents from the airport, but I’ve seen pictures and stuff and I can visualize. Much to my amazement, the wretched Bachelor (see Jan Herman’s review here) doubled the ratings of Victoria’s models, proving once again something or other …

New service TVTonic offers “DVD quality” video over the Internet for $1.95 per month: But you can use TVTonic for two months at no cost. Just download and install the TVTonic software and start receiving video entertainment channels of the highest quality. You’ll have two months to decide if TVTonic …