Time hasn't tamed "Something Wild." Jonathan Demme's red-hot-mama road movie returns on Blu-ray and DVD, all dolled up by the Criterion Collection. Unlike most hipster movies of the 1980s, "Something Wild" still hits on all of its cylinders: sex, violence and screwball madness. Very little feels dated, really: Credit Demme's … [Read more...]
YouTube snags 3 studios
Here's YouTube's lineup of Hollywood content providers for its upgraded VOD service: Warner Bros., NBC Universal, and Sony Pictures. Majors missing in action: Paramount, Disney and Fox, all of which have conflicting issues of some kind. The new video-on-demand partnerships, which had been anticipated, double the numbers of movies on the … [Read more...]
‘Star Wars’ on Blu-ray details
"Star Wars: The Complete Saga" on Blu-ray touches down Sept. 16 with more than 40 hours of extra features. All six "Star Wars" movies are rendered in high-definition with 6.1 DTS Surround Sound. The sticker price is $140, but Amazon already has the nine-disc Blu-ray set "Star Wars: The Complete Saga" discounted to $90. The movies are George … [Read more...]
‘If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise’
Spike Lee began filming his second New Orleans documentary on the day of the 2010 Super Bowl, with cameras rolling in Miami and New Orleans. They were shooting "because we knew the Saints were gonna win," Lee recalls. After capturing the wild celebration following the city's first Super Bowl win, "We thought we had the (documentary's) ending … [Read more...]
Hulu Plus added to Xbox
Microsoft's Hulu Plus has gone live on the Xbox 360 platform, opening with a seven-day free trial. Anyone with a networked Xbox 360 can log in during the sampling period, which ends May 6. Bottom line: The Hulu Plus picture looks great, the audio has plenty of punch and there's a heap of films from the Criterion Collection. Hulu is known … [Read more...]
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