Michael Giltz: DVDs — “Life On Mars” And Those Clever Brits
July 31, 2009 by Technorati Search for: best bluray dvds · Leave a Comment
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I can't help romanticizing the British TV industry. We often see only the best of the best of British telly so it seems remarkably high in quality. Plus, the way their industry developed, many shows only have to produce six or eight episodes at a time, take a break and then -- if they want -- create six more. Take The Office -- one of the best sitcoms of all time, full stop. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant did six episodes, took a long holiday, did six more, called it a day and then did tw
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TCM Brings Back Summer Under The Stars For Seventh Year – Win A Robert Osborne Bobble Head!
There are several yearly television events that I really love. Watching Miracle on 34th St. on eighteen different channels at the same time in December. Watching Groundhog Day … well, you know. Watching A Christmas Story for 24 straight hours on TBS (see below). There are a lot of these television traditions around my house, as you might guess, but none of them quite blows the doors off the whole television theory like August on TCM. This will be the seventh year of Summer UnderIngmar Bergman: an Annotated Webliography and Top 10 Quotes
It’s been exactly two years since Ingmar Bergman passed away at the age of 89, leaving us with dozens of films, many of which are considered among the greatest ever made . On the anniversary of his death, it’s my privilege to present a compilation of the most valuable resources on Bergman available online, as well as ten of the most illuminating quotes about him, from filmmakers, scholars, and Bergman himself. This array of information was compiled by a longtime friend on the IMDb Classic FiCinecast Episode 132 – Tap Dancing Through a Field of Landmines
28 Jul 2009 Episode 132: A review of RiP! A Remix Manifesto turns into a full blown tangent on international copyright laws, downloading and property infringement - and a little U2 bashing for good measure. After that it’s half ass reviews of ‘(250) Days of Summer’ and Princess Mononoke and a return to the “on the road” segment - which gets a wee bit spirited as Gamble realizes for the first time that an iPod is actually kind of a small screen (verbal lambasting ensues). DVD picks tanNew DVD Releases for the Week of July 28 2009
Here is a list of the new DVD Releases for the week of July 28 2009 (for TV on DVD releases head over to Daemon's TV ): Fast & Furious Synopsis: Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed -- Fast and Furious. Heading back to the streets where it all began, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert in the new high-octanSubscriptions
