All Entries in the "Digital Divide" Category
Digital Divide: January 2011
Inception
Fox Home Video
According to the literary and Tinsel-town adage, there are only seven plot lines with which to work. If you take this logic as absolute, then once you’ve seen a film with one of these individual stories, you’ve seen them all.
Digital Divide: November 2010
The Killer Inside Me
IFC Films
In the literary world of the ’40s and ’50s, there are writers of mystery and crime novels with standard whodunit plots that involve characters and situations to be neatly resolved at the end of act three.
Digital Divide: December 2010
Music For The Masses
Tis the end of the year, and all through the biz, labels and production houses are releasing music DVDs des-igned to grab your nostalgia dollars. What, you really didn’t expect a rhyme there, did ya?
Digital Divide: October 2010
Iron Man 2
Warner Bros.
Iron Man may possibly be one of the best comic-book movies ever made, and its critical and financial success meant that the sequel was as inevitable as the sun rising in the east or Lindsay Lohan doing something stupid.
Digital Divide: September 2010
Look, It’s The City! Run!
So this is how marriage is: You’re together for awhile, squeeze out a few kids, and settle into a routine. You go to work, you come home from work, feed and clean up after said kids, and do it all over again the next day. It goes without saying that your [...]
Digital Divide: August 2010
The Runaways
Sony Pictures
As James Brown famously shouted, “This is a man’s world!” As far as the music business was concerned, he was right — until 1975, that is. That was the year Joan Jett and Sandy West teamed up to form the first successful all-girl rock band, The Runaways. Along with guitarist Lita Ford, bassist [...]
Digital Divide: July 2010
The Man With No Name Trilogy
MGM
For a good part of film history, the western genre always seemed curiously out of place. Not because it wasn’t worthy subject matter, but because the execution never seemed right. The settings, old-timey enough to be sure, but too clean, too pristine to be believable. The heroes and villains were [...]
Digital Divide: June 2010
Invictus
Warner Bros.
Like most Americans, I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about most sports out there. Yet if asked about rugby, I’ll cop to being the guy whose eyes glaze over before lamely replying that “it’s football without pads” before desperately trying to steer the conversation back to baseball.
Digital Divide: May 2010
It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Blue
Avatar
Fox Home Entertainment
I’ll admit it: I’m probably one of only 20 people in America who didn’t see Avatar in the theaters. Yet I felt no sense of shame or desperation about not taking part in the group collective, because I knew that the eventual home-video release would be stellar.
Digital Divide: April 2010
Attack Of The Clooneys
To paraphrase Dennis Miller: I was watching home movies the other night and damned if George Clooney wasn’t in ‘em.
Digital Divide: March 2010
The Informant!
Warner Bros.
The hip thing to do these days is to take all your anger and frustration about the stagnate economy, aim it at big business, and let the bile fly. All the cool kids are doing it, and rightfully so. Insurance companies make record profits only to jack up premiums to ungodly heights, and [...]
Digital Divide: February 2010
Hey, look! The column’s called something different now. Why? Well, we decided it was time to begin a serious relationship with the 21st century, thanks for asking.
