Another 28 days is the new measure of a pound of flesh. At least that’s what it seems like after the Warner Brothers and Netflix agreement that means all those movies in your (and my) …
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28 days
Friday, January 8th, 2010How long to wait for a rental?
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009So Hollywood wants another staged release in the life of a movie: Theatrical showing, release on DVD and Blu-ray 4 to 6 months later, and (here’s the new thing:) now only after another 30 days …
All I want for Christmas …
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Is that a Blu-ray player topping Santa’s list? After the long fight between HD-DVD and Blu-ray ended with HD-DVD sliding off into a fast fading sunset, it still seemed like Blu-ray was going pretty much …
Iowa film office confused, puts movies on hold
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) shows 268 titles with locations in Iowa. John Wayne was from Iowa. Cloris Leachman came from there. Field of Dreams (1989) put the state on the map. The state of …
The Sensation of Sight
Thursday, September 17th, 2009The Sensation of Sight is an independent movie by Aaron J. Wiederspahn, produced by Either/Or Films as their first feature film project.
Interesting about it is that the creators just recently launched a new …
IKEA Heights: what was he thinking?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Premise: Go to a large furniture and home furnishing store that invites people to come in and hang out, and bring a script, actors and camera and shoot a web soap opera. After all, the …
Movie studio plussing the customer
Friday, August 14th, 2009Marley & Me is good movie. Gripping story well told. A must to add to the collection.
But which one to get? There is the single disc standard definition DVD, the 2-disc bad dog edition on …
Subtitles and Closed Captioning
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Watched Slumdog Millionaire recently on a small TV from across the room. It’s a good movie and it really deserves a bigger screen, but this particular day I was watching it in widescreen on a …
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