What's Your Setup?
As the date for the conversion to digital television crept closer and closer to reality this month – only to be pushed back all the way to June – I started wondering all the ways people access entertainment content today differently than they would have a few years back. What I’ve done is to ask a few of my more tech savvy friends just how they watch TV and movies here at the start of 2009.
Continue reading this column on accessing entertainment content in 2009.
By Bert Ehrmann
2/24/2009
Queen Alien Diorama
I'm lovin' the Queen Alien diorama offered for sale later this year by Sideshow Collectibles, but can see buying a lot of other things with the $400 price tag.
By Bert Ehrmann
2/24/2009
Inglourious Bastards
After seeing the trailer for Inglourious Bastards I have to say, yeah. I'm sold.
By Bert Ehrmann
2/24/2009
The Crazies
I'm actually looking forward to the remake of The Crazies movie – due out this fall.
By Bert Ehrmann
2/24/2009
Summer Movie Preview
The 2009 summer movie season kicks off May 1 with the X-Men spin-off movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I liked X-Men (2000), loved X2 (2003) but thought that X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) was lacking just about everything a movie can lack. Though I’d agree that spinning off Wolverine, arguably the most popular character in the franchise is probably a good idea, I’d say that if the Wolverine tanks at the box office, he’ll probably take down the entire rest of the X-Men franchise and any other characters chances of having their own spin-off movies down with him.
Continue reading this preview of the movies due out this summer.
By Bert Ehrmann
2/8/2009
The Best Films of 2008
On and off over the last decade, I’ve taken time at the end of each winter to compile my list of the best movies of the year. It’s a trip to look back at the first list I came up with at the end of 1999 that had The Matrix as the best movie of the year but somehow failed to include films like The Iron Giant or Fight Club. Regardless, in all the time since that first list I’ve never had as many problems coming up with what I felt were the best movies of the year as I’ve had here in writing this at the end of 2008.
Continue reading this column on the best TV movies of 2008.
By Bert Ehrmann
1/10/2009
The Best Television Shows of 2008
The best TV series of the 2008 season was also the best of the 2007 season – Mad Men. I thought that the sophomore season of Mad Men couldn’t be as good as the first – but how wrong I was! In the second season of the show, Don (John Hamm) and Betty’s (January Jones) marriage is on the rocks, onetime secretary Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) is now a copywriter in charge of (shock!!!) men and homosexual Salvatore (Bryan Batt) and wife are now seemingly a happily married couple. I can’t think of another television series with a storyline that’s more intertwined, complex and fulfilling on TV today than that of Mad Men.
Continue reading this column on the best TV series of the 2008 season.
By Bert Ehrmann
1/2/2009
The Best Movie Posters of 2008
What a year it’s been at the box office. Though there have been a lot of “fun” movies released in 2008, I’d count exactly two movies I saw as being very good and wouldn’t say I’ve seen any great ones. Which is the exact opposite of last year where there were a plethora of great films released during the later part of the year.
By Bert Ehrmann
12/20/2008
My Favorite Non-Christmas Christmas Movies
This time of year it seems as if there’s never a shortage of Christmas themed movies on television. Be it a classic like A Christmas Story (1983) or a more recent comedy like Elf (2003), from the beginning of December to the end it’s like the viewing public is presented with a glut of Christmas TV.
But that got me thinking; though there are literally hundreds of Christmas themed movies, what about the movies that take place at Christmas time but aren’t necessarily about Christmas?
Continue reading this column on my favorite non-Christmas Christmas movies.
By Bert Ehrmann
12/6/2008
MST3K Turns Twenty and I Feel OLD!
I can’t quite believe it myself – but Joel, the bots, the “Satellite of Love” and the whole TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) turns 20 this Thanksgiving. That means when I first started watching (and falling in love with) MST3K, I was a punk high school kid not yet old enough to have a driver’s license. Does time fly!
Continue reading this column on one of the best TV series of all time – MST3K.
By Bert Ehrmann
11/29/2008
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