Need something to anger up the blood? Why not try a documentary dealing with a huge, if often unmentioned, social issue. Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy played the Sundance Film Festival and got a pretty decent write-up in Variety. I'm anxious to check it out, provided I ever get the chance. It has an all-star cast with the likes of Bill Cosby, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Rock. Variety basically calls this one kind of softball, but I'm sure it's more thought provoking than 99.9% of the stuff I'm going to see this ye...

Maybe. The director of the forthcoming Gears of War movie expressed an interest in the 3D movie technology in an interview with BloodyDisgusting.com. Anyone who's played the "drop and pop" shooter would just how over the top the series has been, and the implementation of the 3D technology into the its celluloid incarnation, would come as no surprise. I, for one, am a huge proponent of the 3D experience at the theater. It gives the entertainment business some leverage to make profit, and it also provides a more unique experience for...

If you were as big of a fan of the 1up Show as I was, then this is for you. A new video podcast, if you will(it's on Google), about video games. It's called Co-Op and is being produced by former members of 1up.com, who now call themselves Area 5. Anyway, I'm a big fan of podcasts in general so this is just icing on the cake....

Thanks to Adam Quigley at Always Watching for pointing out how cool the Spanish version of The Spirit poster is. Oddly enough, This doesn't make me want to see the movie thou...

Jon Podesta and President Barrack Obama have issued their support for a proposal to change the date that NTSC signals will be stopped. This transition to ATSC broadcasts has been a long time in the making but I cant imagine pushing the dated from February 17th to June 12th is going to make that big of a difference and neither does CES Chief Gary Shapiro. In a letter he wrote to President Obama he outlined 5 specific alternatives to pushing the date back: 1. A fix of the accounting issues such as the anti-deficiency rules that are...

The 81st annual Oscar nominees were announced early this morning. Were there any shocks? A few. The Dark Knight only got 8 nods. Kind of surprising depending on which side of the fence you are sitting on. I'm still surprised that Heath Ledger got the supporting actor nod. But the biggest shock to me is that Benjamin Button got 13 nominations. Benjamin Button? Really? I saw another movie that was a much better depiction of the nuances of aging, and told a much better story,in my opinion, it was called Synecdoche, New York. It, however,...

Last year was the year we needed to escape. The reality of a broken-down economy and uncertain times, had us flocking in droves (movie sales were up 2% from 2007), to the local movie house where we payed big bucks to be distracted, saddened, overjoyed and mystified (and of course, stuffed with popcorn [after all, what's a post about flicks without a nod to corn]). There was a crystal skull, a million-dollar game show and group of anarchist clowns. And we loved it. So instead of doing a traditional top 10 list of my favorite movies from the year that was 2008, I've instead decided to compile a list to celebrate the movies...