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Amazon Video on Demand Coming on Roku

Author: Editor  //  Category: Entertainment, Video Reviews

Roku Big movies on your big-screen TV — without waiting for a download. Pinch me. Or better yet, get me a Roku box, ’cause that’s what it provides. I’ve yet to meet anyone who doesn’t love their Roku. (Though they tend to know the little black bit of goodness as “the Netflix box.”) The word is out, however, as of today: Soon, it will be an Amazon Video On Demand box too. Just think of it as a great way to enjoy new-release movies like Hancock or Tropic Thunder as well as more than 40,000 other movies and TV shows — no subscription required and commercial-free. (You can also access any Amazon Video On Demand stuff you already own.) I’ve been lucky enough to try out an early version of Amazon VOD on Roku, and I have that TiVo feeling — you know, the “how did I ever live without this” sensation. Can’t wait ’til you get to try it out!

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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)

What others would you add?

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