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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Nominated for 1 Emmy and 1 Golden Globe in its first five seasons, Gilmore Girls has experienced much greater success among TV viewers than among industry critics. In fact, the show is the first script supported by the Family Friendly Forum’s script development fund to go on and become a regular television series. Part of an initiative between The WB Network - maker of such hits as Dawson’s Creek (1998), Felicity (1998), Angel (1999), and Smallville (2001) - and fellow industry executives, this push for more family-oriented programming resulted in a series showcasing a unique mother-daughter bond and the various people they encounter on their life voyage of discovery. Set in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, Gilmore Girls utilizes many of the same sets as the hit series The Dukes Of Hazzard (1979) - another successful Warner Brothers production from years past
Gilmore Girls is set in a small idyllic community in Connecticut filled with a wide range of diverse characters and eccentric personalities. Against this backdrop, Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) attempts to raise her daughter and best friend, Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel), to carve out a better life for herself. Having made a number of youthful mistakes, Lorelai made the decision to raise her daughter by herself at a young age (the same age as Rory when the series begins), and she’s bound and determined to make sure that Rory makes better decisions for herself. As Rory prepares to go off to college, she displays many of the same likes and dislikes as her mother - especially when it comes to the opposite sex, and that’s what worries Lorelai the most A borderline soap opera, Gilmore Girls is more of a serial drama that focuses on the love, friendship, and shared growth of a mother and daughter as they live out their dreams in modern day America
The Gilmore Girls (Season 4) DVD features a number of touching episodes including the season premiere “Ballrooms and Biscotti” in which Lorelai and Rory return from their European vacation to experience a whirlwind of activity. Taylor gets upset when Rory declines the offer to be the Stars Hollow Ice Cream Queen, while Rory herself is in a panic after realizing she wrote the wrong date for freshman orientation on her calendar. Now, she must fit a week’s worth of preparation into two days, and Emily isn’t very happy about it Other notable episodes from Season 4 include “The Nanny and the Professor” in which Rory becomes concerned when Paris’s new boyfriend turns out to be one of her college professors, and “Luke Can See Her Face” in which a self-help tape and a long talk with Jess help Luke to envision a path to the relationship he’s been seeking all along
Below is a list of episodes included on the Gilmore Girls (Season 4) DVD:
Episode 66 (Ballrooms and Biscotti) Air Date: 09-23-2003
Episode 67 (The Lorelai’s First Day at Yale) Air Date: 09-30-2003
Episode 68 (The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles) Air Date: 10-07-2003
Episode 69 (Chicken or Beef?) Air Date: 10-14-2003
Episode 70 (The Fundamental Things Apply) Air Date: 10-21-2003
Episode 71 (An Affair to Remember) Air Date: 10-28-2003
Episode 72 (The Festival of Living Art) Air Date: 11-04-2003
Episode 73 (Die, Jerk) Air Date: 11-11-2003
Episode 74 (Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out) Air Date: 11-18-2003
Episode 75 (The Nanny and the Professor) Air Date: 01-20-2004
Episode 76 (In the Clamor and the Clangor) Air Date: 01-27-2004
Episode 77 (A Family Matter) Air Date: 02-03-2004
Episode 78 (Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels) Air Date: 02-10-2004
Episode 79 (The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais) Air Date: 02-17-2004
Episode 80 (Scene in a Mall) Air Date: 02-24-2004
Episode 81 (The Reigning Lorelai) Air Date: 03-02-2004
Episode 82 (Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin’ the Twist) Air Date: 04-13-2004
Episode 83 (Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!) Air Date: 04-20-2004
Episode 84 (Afterboom) Air Date: 04-27-2004
Episode 85 (Luke Can See Her Face) Air Date: 05-04-2004
Episode 86 (Last Week Fights, This Week Tights) Air Date: 05-11-2004
Episode 87 (Raincoats and Recipes) Air Date: 05-18-2004
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Gilmore Girls (Season 3) DVD Review Nominated for 1 Emmy and 1 Golden Globe in its first five seasons, Gilmore Girls has experienced much greater success among TV viewers than among industry critics. In fact, the show is the first script supported by the Family Friendly Forum's script development fund to go on and become a regular television series. Part of an initiative between The ... Gilmore Girls (DVD) Review Nominated for 1 Emmy and 1 Golden Globe in its first five seasons, Gilmore Girls has experienced much greater success among TV viewers than among industry critics. In fact, the show is the first script supported by the Family Friendly Forum's script development fund to go on and become a regular television series. Part of an initiative between The ... The Golden Girls (Season 3) DVD Review Making its debut in the fall of 1985, The Golden Girls quickly established itself as a fixture of Saturday night prime time television. Following the lives of four older women living together as roommates in Miami, the show displayed a raw wit and a biting humor. The women live in the house of Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), a Southern belle wh... The Golden Girls (Season 5) DVD Review Making its debut in the fall of 1985, The Golden Girls quickly established itself as a fixture of Saturday night prime time television. Following the lives of four older women living together as roommates in Miami, the show displayed a raw wit and a biting humor. The women live in the house of Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), a Southern belle wh... I Love Lucy (Season 3) DVD Review Widely considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, show in television history, I Love Lucy signaled the ascendance of the prime time TV era. The brainchild of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy revolutionized the television industry with its extensive use of a live audience and the employment of multiple camera angles. The result of ... Dawson’s Creek (Season 6) DVD Review Nominated for 12 Teen Choice Awards in its five-year (six season) run, including Best Drama Series, Dawson's Creek quickly built an extensive cult following. A surprise smash hit for the enterprising WB network, the show initiated a successful string of numerous original series for WB such as Angel (1999), Gilmore Girls (2000), and Smallville (2001... Angel (DVD) Review Nominated for 25 Saturn Awards and one Emmy for Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Angel has established a strong cult following during its five-year run on the WB network. A spin-off of the enormously popular series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel has followed in the footsteps of its predecessor and boasts many of the same heroes and villains. Creat...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
At last, we can legally download movies from the internet.
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As always, the marketing spiel sounds good at first. You can download the same day the DVD is released. It will cost $20-$30. You can download it before it appears in rental shops. Studios believe that we want to own our own copies of movies - Correct “The internet…is a viable method of distributing our content”; President of Universal Pictures - Correct
Why it will fail “CinemaNow will only allow the movies to be played only on a single computer” “Movielink will allow the movie to be copied onto a DVD, from which the movie can be downloaded to two other computers, but it cannot be played on a conventional DVD player. Movies will also not play on handheld players.
So I can pay for the DVD, in much the same way as I would if buying it in a store, and can then only play it on my computer. Are they insane? The lifetime of a DVD is almost infinitely more than that of a computer. I would speculate that few of us still use a computer that we had in 2003 - am I right? Whereas I’ve got videos and DVDs pre-dating 2003 by many years and intend to keep them for many more years, that was the whole point of buying them in the first place. This has to be a classic case of not thinking something through and simply rushing to market to be seen as a “player”. The hare has lost already and the tortoise will be triumphant.
It gets worse. The downloaded movies are [a] more expensive than if purchased in the store and [b] do not contain the bonus footage on the store DVDs. So where is the incentive for me to download a movie again? I’ve forgotten. Furthermore, where are the savings that a realised in online distribution (through not producing DVDs for a start) passed on to the consumer? How on earth did the price manage to increase?
I don’t think this will fly, it will be interesting to see if I’m proved wrong.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Roger Ebert, together with Rex Reed, is arguably one of the best movie writers in the business. I read his columns regularly.
In his review of Syriana, Ebert forwards a very interesting thesis:
“The movie’s plot is so complex we’re not really supposed to follow it, we’re supposed to be surrounded by it. Since none of the characters understand the whole picture, why should we?”
I never thought about a situation in which ALL the characters would be confused about what’s really going on…
If that is the case, does the script itself need to reflect that confusion?
And does this mean that the script should end up confusing the audience, by design? It’s hard to buy that.
The first chapter of Faulkner’s unforgettable The Sound and the Fury comes to mind…
But in the later chapters Faulker lets us discover the genius of that first and utterly confusing first chapter. At the end of the book, we also agree with the author that the first chapter HAD TO BE that confusing in order both to understand one of the characters and also savor the aesthetic structure of the whole edifice.
However, I cannot think of myself leaving a movie more confused than I was in the beginning.
RASHOMON is an example where it is totally legitimate to reflect a LACK OF CERTAINTY. But Kurosawa is never confused about his take on the relativity of “facts.” He is very CLEAR about lack of clarity in life.
Syriana seems to be opening the gates for a new post-9/11 kind of “post structuralism” where we’re permitted to confuse the audience as a matter of “high concept” and not only the style.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
How do I download The Bourne Ultimatum movie for free? There are many ways of doing that, however, you are probably using the most popular one - iTunes, am I right? It’s a very good movie download service, there’s no doubt, but I don’t think it’s that good. I have switched to another movie download service and let me explain why.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
On 7th April Monday at 9:00pm Bodyshock: “I Am The Elephant Man” was broadcast on Channel 4. Upon watching the programme an apparent microcosm of humanity, encapsulating a story with all the notions of hardship, plight, love, dignity, sorrow and optimism. We followed the life of Huang Chuncai a sufferer of neurofibromatosis: the same ailment that afflicted John Merrick - the Elephant Man, in the run-up to and after an operation to remove some the 20kg of tumour he has on his face. We saw his poor farming family, we heard from his perennially weeping/crying mother and felt his terrible pain and thanked God this disease is not afflicting any one of us or our families.
The producers did not skimp on the extreme close-ups of Huang mid-operation or choose not to film an adult pig being slaughtered, wailing while jets of blood was gushing from it’s heart to the earth.
Upon watching I realized I’m watching less of a documentary and more of the traveling-circus Haung and his family so dignifiedly refused to be a part of. And I thought this is just an obscene semblance of a credible heartrending factual program when in fact it’s little more than the abhorrent of reality TV shows.
We watched Huang tortured, emotionally and physically to learn more about China? To learn more about humanity? To learn more about about neurofibromatosis? Or as a form of sordid voyeurism, to look how yucky this puddle of a human being can survive, and feel how lucky we are?
I think my feelings are justified by Channel 4, choosing to show us slaughtered pigs and surgical images to entertain, their lack of consideration and respect having the show sponsored by the ‘Beautifully Formed’ Volkswagen Passat and how ending the programme with no noticeable conclusion. For shame.
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Do you know that you can download and watch full length movies without ever leaving your home? Well, you can, matter of fact, there are a huge number of websites that offer you this great and convenient service. There are some that will state “free movie downloads’, or “free full length movies”. As you come across these type of sites, you will notice that there are some that will require payment, and there will other that will offer free downloads (these are typically illegal downloads).
With the ever increasing growth of the Internet, the demand to watch full length movies is becoming more and more popular. This gives us as movie lovers a way to build up a library of our favorite movies to watch whenever we want.
So what do you want to look for in a website that offers you the benefit to watch full length movies? You want to look for site that allow you to pay for each download, this way you know you are getting high-quality, legal downloads. These sites also offer great download transfer rates, and protects you from the dangerous spy-ware that is so prevalent on the free-download sites.
When you are searching to watch full length movies on your computer or add to your movie directory, keep in mind that you are paying to protect your computer, whereas, if you download something for free, you may pay a very high price in the end.
How Do You Determine The Best Sites?
How do you know which sites are good and which ones should you stay away from? There are so many sites that will offer movie downloads, but you need to compare the prices as well as the features. Check for the site to be backed up or endorsed, or supported by some of the major movie companies, such as MGM. Look for the word or term ‘legal’.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
I must admit I was first beguiled by the panorama of it all. The scenes were beautifully shot and the emotions of Ennis and Jack really got to me. I even shed a tear at the end of the film as I realized the love so desired would never be.
Of course, Im speaking of Brokeback Mountain. The story of two gay sheepherders struggling with a love that could never be. But, could it?
It wasnt until much later when the fog of the beautiful music and the lush scenery that Ang Lee so beautifully brought to the screen faded from my memory. It wasnt until my heart stop pining away for all the loves lost in my own life could I begin to see that this story is a depiction of lies.
Ironically, this Brokeback Mountain is supposed to be a story of two very strong men. Two men who brave the elements and arent afraid of hard work. What they are afraid of is the truth. The truth that should have been revealed to their spouses and families.
The only moral to this story is that there are people in this world who are clinging to relationships built on false hope and lies with partners that, once the going gets tough, pine away for someone else rather than placing their concentration at homewhere it ought to be.
Of course being with someone who brings laughter, and no stress, is alluring. Its not nearly as much fun to remain with a partner worrying over paying the rent and electric bill.
Even as much as we all yearn for a relationship full of passion and no worries of money, the reality is that life (and relationships) comes with the full package, including all the boring stuff required to keep life going.
This movie idealizes love affairs outside the primary relationship and does nothing to depict how lives can be shattered when the people involved are too weak to stand up to their responsibility and place their emphasis on the home they helped create.
I have a strong feeling Brokeback Mountain will win best picture at the Oscars, but Im left wishing a movie about men who stick with their relationship regardless of hardship, whether they be gay or straight, were up for nomination. Now, that movie would hold my interest.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Leaping onto the television landscape in Fall 2001, Smallville follows the exploits of a young Clark Kent in the years leading up to his emergence as the beloved Superman. Following a slew of TV renditions of the character’s life since the comic book first appeared, Smallville sets itself apart by focusing on the lesser discussed niche of Clark’s earliest developmental days. Superb casting and consistent writing have combined to make Smallville one of the more popular shows on television (especially in international markets), making the show one of the WB network’s most successful creations to date
Tom Welling stars in the imminent role of teenager Clark Kent, a refugee from the dying planet of Krypton. His ship having landed in the rural American town of Smallville, Clark is raised by locals Martha (Annette O’Toole) and Jonathan Kent (John Schneider - of Dukes of Hazzard fame) as their own son. Unlike some of the film and TV spin-offs, Smallville attributes powers to other individuals in the area as a result of some of the debris associated with Krypton’s destruction. As a result, Clark is forced to keep his own powers a secret while battling against other individuals who are more powerful than traditional human criminal elements. The show also provides a glimpse into the early friendship experienced between Clark and Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as well as Clark’s romance with two high school classmates, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk). Part sci-fi fantasy and part teenage soap, Smallville is an instant television classic
The Smallville DVD offers a number of exciting episodes including the series premiere in which the stage for the series is set by recounting the story of Clark’s voyage to earth in the aftermath of Krypton’s destruction. Clark meets Lex Luthor for the first time as well as a human mutated by the strange green rocks which accompanied Clark’s spacecraft in the meteor shower Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “Hourglass” in which the green rocks enable one man to reverse the aging process so that he can seek revenge on his enemies, and “Stray” in which a runaway kid named Ryan has the power to read minds, prompting his stepparents to attempt to exploit him for financial gain
Below is a list of episodes included on the Smallville (Season 1) DVD:
Episode 1 (Pilot) Air Date: 10-16-2001
Episode 2 (Metamorphosis) Air Date: 10-23-2001
Episode 3 (Hothead) Air Date: 10-30-2001
Episode 4 (X-Ray) Air Date: 11-06-2001
Episode 5 (Cool) Air Date: 11-13-2001
Episode 6 (Hourglass) Air Date: 11-20-2001
Episode 7 (Craving) Air Date: 11-27-2001
Episode 8 (Jitters) Air Date: 12-11-2001
Episode 9 (Rogue) Air Date: 01-15-2002
Episode 10 (Shimmer) Air Date: 01-29-2002
Episode 11 (Hug) Air Date: 02-05-2002
Episode 12 (Leech) Air Date: 02-12-2002
Episode 13 (Kinetic) Air Date: 02-26-2002
Episode 14 (Zero) Air Date: 03-12-2002
Episode 15 (Nicodemus) Air Date: 03-19-2002
Episode 16 (Stray) Air Date: 04-16-2002
Episode 17 (Reaper) Air Date: 04-23-2002
Episode 18 (Drone) Air Date: 04-30-2002
Episode 19 (Crush) Air Date: 05-07-2002
Episode 20 (Obscura) Air Date: 05-14-2002
Episode 21 (Tempest) Air Date: 05-21-2002
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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a movie review site where you can find more reviews like this one of the Smallville (DVD) Review.
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
After the delay caused by Hurricane Katrina, the cast of the Real World Key West are ready to open their Mystic Tan salon. That night, they make their usual rounds of the bars, but this time theyre also promoting their opening the next day. On opening day, John is worn out by his marketing efforts the night before, and he decides to take a nap in the closet.
Paula Meronek is aghast at this both at John for taking the nap and at her roommates for not being outraged as well.
That night, the group is out drinking again, and Paulas resentment is unleashed. In case you ever need to spot a drunken Paulie Walnuts in the wild for yourself, heres what to look for
1) Repeated shouting of the phrase, Kiss my aaaaass!
2) Occasional use of a baby voice.
3) Out-of-control outbursts.
4) Frustrated growling when words fail.
5) Panicked gulping and near-hyperventilation.
The first three are exhibited in the van on the way home and directed at John. At first, he ignores her. But she will not relent, and John rips back into her, calling attention to her anorexia and self-mutilating behavior. The entire van gets quiet but his comments are painfully accurate.
Later, Paula then adds the fourth and fifth stages of Paulie Walnuts to her behavior for the evening. Strangely, her anger is directed at Jose Tapia and Zach.
The next morning, Paula pieces together the night by talking to the other housemates. Janelle confirms that she did start the fight with John.
Meanwhile, John and Zach decompress from the evening at the salon. John says the only solution he sees is to not be around Paula when shes drinking.
Later, at the salon, when Paula arrives, John approaches her and says he cant be around her anymore when shes boozing. She acknowledges her actions and the two seem to make peace.
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