Archive for June, 2006

Tuesday June 27th = Devil Wears Prada National Coffee Break Day.

By Scarecrow ⋅ June 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Eh?  Yep, you can get a free coffee via the folks at Fox & Devil Wears Prada.  The insanely popular book has been made into a new film.  We haven’t seen it yet! You tell us what you think …
CATCH A BREAK’ THIS TUESDAY
WITH THE DEVIL WEAR PRADA NATIONAL COFFEE BREAK DAY
 
Overworked …

some musings on SIFF

By madamecrow ⋅ June 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Every year during SIFF, I find the same things happening to me around town: stumbling around the lines outside the Egyptian (is it just me, or is that the hardest one to maneuver around?), overhearing media industry types talking (always somewhat loudly in public places) about the filmmakers they’ve hobnobbed with, appreciation for the opening …

HD-DVD (oh, and BluRay too)

By Scarecrow ⋅ June 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Let the new format war begin …
For those new to the latest technology game. There’s 2 new DVD formats : HD-DVD and (sony’s) Blu-Ray. The first question is probably why? Well, with these new formats – you can fit A LOT more information (aka = video) on the discs. Current generation DVD …

Sheitan (France, 06)

By Scarecrow ⋅ June 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Vincent Cassel stars as a satanic peasant who ends up hosting a rather tense holiday evening with some ‘youth looking for shelter’ (the classic horror problem). This big budget black comedy/horror venture comes via Vincent Cassel and his friends from the Kourtrajmé collective. Scarecrow has some Region 2 PAL DVDs from this group of …

You have been warned … heed the omen.

By Scarecrow ⋅ June 1, 2006 ⋅ One comment

6/6/6 .. The media industry (or crazy people living in desert caves?) only get the opportunity to exploit this date once every one hundred years. This century they’ve decided to remake the classic ‘Omen’ films into something new. None of us have seen it yet … so no comment. It could be great, …

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