Archive for December 2009

Lara’s Reading Room: Here I Go

Dec 28th, 2009 | By Lara H. Smith

I just finished Sara Nelson’s book, SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME: A YEAR OF PASSIONATE READING. Oh. My. God. It’s like she and I are twins. Forget the fact that she’s a Yale-educated, professional writer, married to someone on the SNL team (yes that’s Saturday Night Live), and a mother who lives in Manhattan
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It’s All Her Fault

Dec 25th, 2009 | By Lara H. Smith
It’s All Her Fault

Sara Nelson’s fault. I don’t even know her, but it seems right to place the blame squarely on her shoulders. I mean, she wrote SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME about her passion for reading, chronicling how she read a book a week for a year. It’s December 25, I am only about thirty pages
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Mike Judge’s workplace comedy hit EXTRACT comes to blu-ray

Dec 22nd, 2009 | By Allan Given
Mike Judge’s workplace comedy hit EXTRACT comes to blu-ray

Miramax Films | 2009 | Rated R | 91 minutes | Get it for less at Amazon In 1999, Mike Judge released his small comedy about the workplace, OFFICE SPACE, that went on to become a cult classic, brilliantly and hilariously portraying disgruntled workers who were tired of merely being cubicle drones in their office
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AMERICAN PIE PRESENTS: THE BOOK OF LOVE is released on DVD and Blu-ray, but does anyone care?

Dec 22nd, 2009 | By Allan Given
AMERICAN PIE PRESENTS: THE BOOK OF LOVE is released on DVD and Blu-ray, but does anyone care?

Universal Studios | 2009 | Unrated | 93 minutes | List price: $29.98 | Get it for less at Amazon Though not normally a fan of the teen comedies, I actually enjoyed the first AMERICAN PIE movie when it came out in 1999. Yes, it was crude and vulgar, but at the core of the
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The alternate reality of Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is now on DVD

Dec 15th, 2009 | By Allan Given
The alternate reality of Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is now on DVD

Universal Studios | 2009 | Rated R | 153 minutes | List price: $34.98 | Get it for less at Amazon Quentin Tarantino, the brilliant writer and director of such now cult classics as RESERVOIR DOGS, PULP FICTION and the KILL BILL series, has now set his sights on World War II France in his
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Top Ten Box Office: Opening Weekend (US)

Dec 10th, 2009 | By Allan Given


Brilliant performances make PUBLIC ENEMIES a must have DVD

Dec 8th, 2009 | By Allan Given
Brilliant performances make PUBLIC ENEMIES a must have DVD

Universal Pictures | 2009 | Rated R | 140 minutes | List price: $34.98 | Get it for less at Amazon The first thing that you will notice about Michael Mann’s film PUBLIC ENEMIES, new on DVD and Blu-ray today, is how he is able to contain the larger than life mythology that has become
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Weekend Box Office December 4-6, 2009

Dec 7th, 2009 | By Allan Given

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Nielsen Ratings November 30-December 6, 2009

Dec 6th, 2009 | By Allan Given

Source: The Nielsen Company