September 19, 2009
Netflix DVD Rental, Watch Movies Online, DVD Movie Rental, Blu-Ray
Rent what you want Simply point and click to add movies & TV episodes to your list. Get DVDs by mail plus instantly watch movies (some new releases) & TV episodes (including current season) online on your PC or Mac or streamed instantly from Netflix over the Internet right to... Read the story »
July 23, 2009
kids-in-mind.com
Unlike the MPAA, we do not assign a single, age-specific rating and we do not make recommendations. Instead we assign each film three distinct, category-specific ratings: one for SEX & NUDITY, one for VIOLENCE & GORE and one for PROFANITY. Each rating is on a scale of zero to ten,... Read the story »
May 2, 2009
blockbuster.com
BLOCKBUSTER Total Access™, the convenient, flexible way to rent DVDs online, with over 90,000 titles to chose from! BLOCKBUSTER Total Access gives the convenience of renting movies online with a choice of how to return them: send them back by mail or exchange them for new movies or discounted game... Read the story »
September 24, 2008
Ten Amazing Movies Your Friends Have Never Heard of
We all love movies. And some movies are wildly popular. But then again, some films didn't set the world on fire. but they are still unique works of art. That's what today's FamilyFirst pick is all about. It's called Ten Amazing Movies Your Friends Have Never Heard of. What are... Read the story »
August 4, 2008
Starlet Showcase
So this all starts with me catching Charlie Chaplin's great silent movie Modern Times on TCM Saturday night. The film, which will grab you like any great film, regardless of the fact that the majority of its dialog is in the form of cards flashed on the screen, has been... Read the story »
May 24, 2008
Movie Cliches
Didja ever notice... If a character uses martial arts rather than a weapon, his opponents will always face him one-to-one. Spare bad guys may dance around the fight taunting our hero, but none will engage until his predecessor has been disposed of. And if it's an oriental martial arts film,... Read the story »
January 23, 2008
Movie-a-Minute
We type a's lead busy lives. Besides working a 40-hour-a-week job (which, I'm happy to say, I LOVE!), I write this column, plus four more, PLUS I run a website hosting/PC consulting business on the side. So who has time for movies? Well, I actually watch a bunch of movies,... Read the story »
January 14, 2008
Movie Mistakes' All-Time Greatest List
Hey, mistakes happen. I check my blog entries diligently, yet the occasional typo slips through. In the moviemaking biz, your mistakes live on in infamy. There's no option to edit and rebuild your movie. Today's FamilyFirst pick is moviemistakes.com's all-time greatest movie mistakes. No genre is immune to movie mistakes.... Read the story »
November 16, 2007
Star Wars United
It's difficult for me to believe that Star Wars has been around for thirty years! The year that your author graduated from high school, a movie was released that was part science fiction (more fiction than science) and part cowboys and Indians. We all knew one thing for sure, though.... Read the story »
October 23, 2007
The Movie Box Presents Trailers
Trailers, trailers, trailers! No, I'm not talking about FEMA housing. I'm talking movie trailers, as in dozens of movies! Today's FamilyFirst pick is The Movie Box's trailers page. And there is a veritable cornucopia of movie trailers for you to choose from. New movies, older movies, dramas, comedies, romances, documentaries... Read the story »
September 25, 2006
Box-Office Mojo
Prices on high-def tv's have been steadily dropping. I've been monitoring their fall, and when I had a chance to score a Philips tube-type for $370, I finally took the plunge. It's been a blast watching my widescreen DVD's in their full glory. And doing so has put me in... Read the story »
August 28, 2006
Jack Nicholson Unofficial Fansite
There are actors, and then there are actors. Hollywood has given us countless superstars. However, there is a top tier of thespians who stand alone. Their names are equated with greatness. Their talent is such that they survive the occasional bomb unscathed, to still be able to demand the top... Read the story »
August 22, 2006
Shawn Hogan, Hero
I am absolutely in awe of the MPAA. I have some friends of mine who recommended getting edited DVD's from various websites that offer edited DVD's. It's a great idea, because we don't watch R-rated movies in my house. However, many excellent movies came out with an R-rating due to... Read the story »
July 1, 2006
Bond Villains
In 1962, a movie was released based on the works of a British writer named Ian Fleming. He created a spy character known as Bond. James Bond. Here we are over forty years later, and despite running out of Fleming books on which to base movies, Mr. Bond is still... Read the story »
May 19, 2006
AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Heroes & Villains
Why do we love movies so much? I would say because movies present dilemmas that more or less mirror our own challenges, but which are generally exaggerated to be more challenging than what we face. And, for the most part, movies have happy endings. And the ones that don't end... Read the story »
