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2008 Hall of Fame-Shame in Movies and TV

Author: Editor  //  Category: Entertainment, Video Reviews

Kristin Scott Thomas in Sony Pictures Classics' The ValetBest Two-Fers
Kristin Scott Thomas (Tell No One, I’ve Loved You So Long)
Josh Brolin (Milk, W.)
James Franco (Milk, Pineapple Express)
Anne Hathaway (Get Smart, Rachel Getting Married)
Kate Winslet (The Reader, Revolutionary Road)
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder)

Best Comeback No One Saw Coming
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Tom Cruise (Tropic Thunder)

Title That Sounds Most Like a Low Budget Erotic Thriller
Body of Lies

Strangest Common Movie Theme
Animated space films (Wall-E, Fly Me to the Moon, Space Chimps)

Busiest Revolving Door in a Series
Grey’s Anatomy

Best Showing of a SNL Alum
Tina Fey (30 Rock, Baby Mama, that Sarah Palin impersonation)

Worst Showing of an SNL Alum
Bill Murray (City of Ember)
Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave)
Mike Myers (The Love Guru)
Molly Shannon (Kath & Kim)

Show That’s Become Cool to Like
How I Met Your Mother

Worst Unceremonious Canceling
Pushing Daisies

Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester, Ed WestwickBest Dysfunctional TV Couple to Root For
Chuck and Blair (Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester), Gossip Girl

Most Touching Post-Character-Departure Episode
“For Warrick,” CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Yes, It’s Still on TV
According to Jim
The Tyra Banks Show

Movie That Didn’t Suck As Much as You Thought it Would
Rambo
The Incredible Hulk
The House Bunny

Movies That Looked WAY Better in the Trailer
Jumper
Vantage Point
Hancock

Biggest Arguments for “The Book Was Better”
The Other Boleyn Girl
Twilight
The Ruins

Best Reason for Vin Diesel to do the fourth Fast & The Furious Movie

Babylon A.D.

Coolest Movie Title
Ping Pong Playa
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Most Confounding Movie Title
Quantum of Solace
Bangkok Dangerous

Movie Titles You Can’t Pronounce
Synecdoche, New York
Cthulhu

Movie Title That Gives You Chills if You Know What It’s About
Teeth
The Midnight Meat Train

Biggest Reasons Not to Answer the Door/Phone
Funny Games
The Strangers
One Missed Call

Biggest Waste of a Long-Awaited Matchup
Righteous Kill (Al Pacino / Robert De Niro)
The Forbidden Kingdom
(Jet Li / Jackie Chan)

Biggest Waste of a Cast
The Women

Wisest Film Choice for a TV Star
The gals of Sex & the City
Kristen Bell, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Matthew Fox as Racer X in Warner Bros. Pictures' Speed RacerUnwisest Film Choice for a TV Star
Eva Longoria, Over Her Dead Body
Matthew Fox, Speed Racer and Vantage Point
Brittany Snow, Prom Night

TV Show That Went Out With a Bang (Literally)
The Shield

TV Show That Went Out With a Hug (Literally)
Boston Legal

Wherever You Look, There’s Beverly Hills, 90210

Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty, and Joe E. Tata, 90210
Brian Austin Green, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Lindsay Price and Vanessa Marcil, Lipstick Jungle
Luke Perry and James Eckhouse, Criminal Minds (guest star, sep. episodes)

Colin Farrell Worked in 2008 (Maybe You Missed ‘Em)
Pride and Glory, In Bruges, Cassandra’s Dream

So Did Rachel McAdams
The Lucky Ones, Married Life

Most Disappointing Follow-Up for an Acclaimed Director
George Clooney (Leatherheads)
Kimberly Peirce (Stop-Loss)


Samuel L. Jackson Award for Most Screen Credits in a Year

Samuel L. Jackson (Jumper, Lakeview Terrace, Soul Men, The Spirit, an appearance after Iron Man’s credits)
Jason Statham
(In the Name of the King, Death Race, Transporter 3, The Bank Job)

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Best DVDs of January 2009 - Moonlight - The Complete Series

Author: Editor  //  Category: Entertainment, Video Reviews

MoonlightWhat it is: No, it’s not Twilight, which is also about vampires so you’d certainly be excused for the confusion.  Nor is it True Blood, which is also a recent vampire-centric TV series.  Moonlight is the series that debuted on CBS in the fall of 2007 and was unceremoniously canceled after one season.  Alex O’Laughlin plays Mick St. John, a vampire who mingles with the human world by working as a private investigator then finds himself falling for a human (Sophia Myles).

Why it’s Significant: When it was canceled after one strike-interrupted season, Moonlight seemed destined to join the ranks of TV shows that had a devoted following but were quickly tossed on the dust heap.  But even worse, when I talked to the folks at Warner Home Video in the summer of 2008, they said they had no plans to release Moonlight on DVD–it wasn’t even going to get the chance to become another Firefly.  I explained to them that Amazon customers were passionate about the show, that you had signed up in droves to be the First To Know when it was available on DVD.  You had bought the episodes on Amazon Video On Demand and written hundreds of customer reviews on the AVOD page and on the First To Know page.  And you had sent us e-mails and posted on our discussion boards that you wanted Moonlight on DVD.  In October, Warner Home Video announced that Moonlight was indeed coming out on DVD, in January 2009.  Though it’s hard to say for sure what happened at Warner, I think it’s safe to say that Amazon customers played a big role in getting their show on DVD.

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