Awards this weekend and farewell to Conan’s Late Night

It’s almost time! THE OSCARS are Sunday, 5pm our time on ABC (or Channel 4 to us locals). You can start your award show fervor the night before with the Independent Spirit Awards–airing on the fancy IFC Channel at 2pm our time then again at 10pm on AMC (so stay off any movie sites if …

Oscar parties for great causes

THE OSCARS ARE ON SUNDAY! (thanks to Awards Daily for linking to this) Even if it’s a forgone conclusion that   Slumdog Millionaire will win everything except Heath Ledger’s award, host Hugh Jackman’s promise of a more “intimate” Oscars will likely make for either a much needed change of pace or a flat out disaster. Either …

Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day weekend!

Greetings and Happy Friday the 13th / Valentine’s Day weekend, everyone. As of this post there are still copies of the original Friday the 13th and its sequels available for rent tonight, especially recommended if you’re thinking about seeing the remake. We’re without a specific Valentine’s Day rental section this year but that doesn’t mean …

What’s new this week

Here’s a quick list of just some of the many titles that have just arrived on our shelves:
Blindness Chocolate       Death Note II: The Last Name
Frozen River Miracle at St. Anna My Name Is Bruce
Nights in Rodanthe   Otto; Or Up With Dead People   Soul Men
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 2    W.

We …

Support some local arthouse theaters!

Arthouse:
SIFF Cinema
Showing this weekend, a new 35mm print of Kurosawa’s Kagemusha.

Farthouse:
King Frat at the Grand Illusion, late night (11pm) screening. Only print in existene (that we know of!), only showing at the GI, only Saturday night. It’s the frat party you are all invited to! Don’t end a sentence with a preposition… at!
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So true!

The Onion AV Club lists 18 packaging disasters, and I couldn’t agree more with some of their DVD choices. Have you ever actually taken the DVDs in and out of the packaging for Mad Men? Have you seen our sad and crumbling Sex and the City DVD cases? Can the Strangers with Candy trapper keeper …

Items of note

–While you’re in the store picking up movies, be sure to enter our drawing for two tickets to the opening night double feature of SIFF Cinema’s NOIR CITY series on Friday, February 13th. The night begins at 7pm with Deadline USA, a Richard Brooks movie from 1952 starring Humphrey Bogart that has yet to be …