We’ve all heard it before, but we just can’t get it out of our heads. Today’s movies make us feel dumb. Paulina Borsook joins the chorus and condemns contemporary cinema by praising movies of the 60s and 70s:
They were movies made for adults, even if they had been mainstream movies and/or nominally rated PG. They [...]
Posted December 4, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: criticism, dvd rental, film, film criticism, films, good movies, greencine, movie, movie criticism, movies, netflix, old movies, paulina borsook. 10 Comments.
This is old news, but Netflix now offers multiple queues for each account. Queues, of course, are the movie wish lists each Netflix customer keeps; when you return a movie, they send out the next movie in your queue. In the old days, each subscriber got just one queue, no matter how many members of [...]
Posted August 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: consumer interest, dvd, dvd rental, entertainment, films, movie, movies, netflix. One Comment.
Ross Rubin at Engadget just alerted me to Peerflix
…which can be described on a basic level as eBay meets Netflix. Peerflix resembles many online DVD stores, but it neither rents nor sells DVDs. Rather, it depends on a community of users willing to trade DVDs they have for DVDs they want. There are no subscription [...]
Posted July 22, 2005 by Casey
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The New York Times did a Netflix story. The Author, William Grimes, seemed to like it, but…
[My wife and I] each judge the other’s selections harshly. I scored a major victory with “Mon Oncle” by Jacques Tati, a director I once dismissed as tedious, annoying and far too French. He is now a god in [...]
Posted March 21, 2004 by Casey
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