Announced in the current issue of the TiVo newsletter, Netflix integration will be available on the Series3 and THD boxes next month! If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you’ll be able to “instantly” stream movies from Netflix to your TiVo … for free. I was a Netflix subscriber back in 1999 when I was still a [...]
Archive of posts filed under the movies category.
Dropo is back!
Just in time for the holidays! What timing … just last week I posted about the 20th anniversary of “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ and the (former) Best Brains’ current endeavor, “Cinematic Titanic.” What should I find in my inbox this morning? An e-mail from CT announcing the release of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” a [...]
What do you think, sirs?
I found this New York Times article via slashdot … “Mystery Science Theater 3000” turns 20 this month! MST3k premiered on Thanksgiving Day 1988 on KTMA in Minnesota. It was eventually picked up by Comedy Central where I discovered it as a sophomore in college in 1992 (back when Jon Stewart was still on “Short [...]
Take the red pill. Get the blue screen.
I love the Clippy cameos, and my favorite part is the last line.
Graduation at East High
I took my daughter to see “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” this afternoon. I guess everyone who wanted to see this saw it opening weekend, because this was only the third weekend of its release and the theater was pretty empty … and all the kids were girls under 10, as I expected. “Senior [...]
TiVo will change your life
Or it just might try to kill you. Just in time for Halloween.
I think someone ….
… at the theater is a Monty Python fan. I went out to see “The Dark Knight” and snapped this photo: I can just picture the French taunter taking on Batman … “I fart in your general direction you silly Dark Knighit!” Gotta go … I’m posting this from inside the theater on my Treo [...]
WarGames 25th Anniversary
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie “WarGames” it’s showing in select theaters tonight at 7:30pm! You can use the event locator to see if it’s playing near you. Unfortunately I just found out about this today and have prior plans so I can’t go … but I totally would if I could. As [...]
Blast from the (computing) past
When I was up in Ohio on vacation last week, my mom presented me with a cardboard box she found while cleaning out the basement. Score! The Atari 800XL was my first computer, given to me by my parents as a Christmas present in the early 80s. That, combined with seeing the movie “WarGames“, is [...]
“WALL-E” is great!
We took my daughter to see Disney Pixar’s latest animated feature, WALL-E, tonight, and it was great. For a film with only a few characters and almost no dialog, it tells a story anyone can follow and understand. It’s not as cartoonish or cutesy as Pixar’s previous fare but will still reach out to all [...]
