This season, Todd and Martin over at PVR Wire want to make sure that you and yours don't stress too much over your media-recording gift needs. To that end, they've put together an awesome Holiday Gift Guide. Sure, TiVo is on there, but it's the little things that'll really help the busted among us shop for our tech-savvy friends. Check it out.PVR Wire Holiday Gift Guide
This season, Todd and Martin over at PVR Wire want to make sure that you and yours don't stress too much over your media-recording gift needs. To that end, they've put together an awesome Holiday Gift Guide. Sure, TiVo is on there, but it's the little things that'll really help the busted among us shop for our tech-savvy friends. Check it out.King Kong has arrived!
Peter Jackson's epic King Kong remake doesn't hit a theater near you until Wednesday, but over at Cinematical, we've already seen it six times and have started laying bets on the likelihood that it'll soon find itself swimming in Oscar gold. Drop what you're doing and check out Ryan Stewart's review.
Stephen Gaghan interviewed on Cinematical
Stephen Gaghan, an Oscar winner for Traffic and writer/director of George Clooney's latest, Syriana, gave an incredible interview to Cinematical's James Rocchi. In this, the first part of two, the filmmaker discusses the relationship between oil and crack, why he's convinced Karl Rove sleeps upside down, and why James' theory that Syriana could be conceived as a prequel to Mad Max is not at all far off.
Join TV Squad in celebrating FesTiVus!
What
would the Holiday Season be without a sparsely adorned metal pole in
the middle of the living room? I'm talking about Festivus, my good man!
Get with the program!Yup, TV Squad is celebrating the season by throwing a FesTiVus party (get it? TV?). Go on over and check out their latest contest, and then head on out to your local junkyard to get yourself a pole. Then head back home, get back online, and go to Flickr to post your entries. The deadline is midnight on Christmas Eve, and the winner gets one of these hot designer bean bag chairs, at an estimated value of $250. So hop to it, before I start airing my grievances!
Cinematical wags its finger at studio misjudgements
Have you ever seen Roger Ebert give his Wagging Finger of Shame? He usually bestows the non-honor on movie companies when they pull any variety of stunts that somehow cheat filmgoers. Over at Cinematical, we need to come up with a name for our own version of the Finger, because it seems like lately there are an awful lot of excuses to call the industry out on shady practices. A couple of days ago, we broke the story that Paramount had inexplicably decided not to screen this weekend's Aeon Flux for critics; angry comments from potential Flux consumers ensued. Then today, we learned that Universal is threatening legal action against a blogger for encouraging his readers to email their scripts to Uni executives. It's not all bad, though; we also recently learned that both the producers and the studio execs behind a potential sequel to Independence Day decided not to put the kibbosh on the project, because, in the screenwriter's own words, to make a sequel "for the money ... [is] not the right reason." Ethics in Hollywood? Must be a temporary blip.Anderson Cooper Smackdown on TV Squad
Wow – who knew there were so many loyal Aaron Brown fans out there? When TV Squad first reported that the CNN anchor had left the network, and his time slot had been handed down to that silver fox known as Anderson Cooper, the commenters went all out in defense of their boy Brown. Later, when Bob Sassone asked readers to pick their favorite of the two anchors, Cooper took a beating in the comments. "If Anderson Cooper can bring his unique brand of inaccurate hysterics,
honed to perfection during Hurricane Katrina, to NewsNight," wrote commenter Morgan, "I think [CNN]
can look forward to continued great ratings." Ty Bloom was even harsher: "Anderson Cooper is a hyper-active hysteric, almost as high-strung as Wolf Blitzer is monotonous." So Bob wrote a third post, this time in defense of Cooper – and he's still getting it from Brown's die-hard supporters. How do you feel about the changing face of CNN? Go on over to TV Squad and say your peace.