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Subject to its Terms of Use November 15, 2009 http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1350050535.html?nid=3518 This past summer, Paper Heart director Nicholas Jasenovec and screenwriter/actress Charlyne Yi participated in a Q&A at the Los Angeles Film Fe... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/810050481.html?nid=3518 “I like movies about successful con men,” announced James Toback, the director of Fingers (1978), The Pick-up Artist (1987) an... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1420050342.html?nid=3518 Sony’s just-released Film Noir Classics I collection compiles five prime examples of the oft-discussed post-war genre, including previous i... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/830050283.html?nid=3518 A very likable and lively singer-songwriter, Vonda Shepard was first introduced to mainstream American audiences as a regular on the first five s... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1560050156.html?nid=3518 I had an appointment to phone comic Jim Jefferies in an Indianapolis hotel at 6:00est to interview him in conjunction with his new DVD, the HBO c... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1810049981.html?nid=3518 Having given us “something completely different” in their 20s and 30s, the members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus have little ... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1420049942.html?nid=3518 “One million dollars, Mr. Bond. You were wondering what it cost,” Joseph Wiseman coolly announces as the price of his evil lair&rsquo... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1710049771.html?nid=3518 A few quick words on The Stepfather—no, not the new version starring Dylan Walsh that’s opening theatrically today, but rather the or... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1360049736.html?nid=3518 Recruited by filmmaker Tony Scott (Top Gun, Man on Fire, Crimson Tide) to star as one of subway hijacker John Travolta’s nasty partners in ... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/310049631.html?nid=3518 Filmmaker Nicholaus Goossen has two feature films to his credit: the spirited 2006 comedy Grandma’s Boy and The Shortcut, a just-released D... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1610049561.html?nid=3518 Though she’s probably best known for her all-too-brief appearances in a bunch of straight-to-DVD horror movies, including such marvelously-mo... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1760049376.html?nid=3518 Warner Home Video celebrated the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, and the just-released DVD and Blu-ray “ultimate” versions of the... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1910049191.html?nid=3518 With a nearly 30-year history of head-banging touring and 13 studio albums to their credit, the Canadian heavy metal outfit Anvil has seen their gr... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1600049160.html?nid=3518 Writer-turned-filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer first met Valentino Garavani six or so years ago when he penned an article on the legendary fashion designer ... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1480049148.html?nid=3518 Last week, I had a chance to speak on the phone with the lively and loquacious Bai Ling, co-star of Lionsgate’s recently released Crank ... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1000049100.html?nid=3518 David As the co-creator of Seinfeld and the creator/st... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1340048934.html?nid=3518 A funny, sophisticated, caustic-as-all-hell writer who made his bones penning gags for the likes of Sid Caesar, Bob Hope and George Burns, before i... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1740048774.html?nid=3518 Last night I took my first dip (of what is sure to be many) into Shout! Factory’s much anticipated “It’s Garry Shandling&r... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1020048702.html?nid=3518 One of the most acclaimed filmmakers to emerge from Scandinavia over the past decade, Norway’s Bent Hamer has written and directed such notab... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/960048496.html?nid=3518 Featuring two-plus hours of songs from the movies This Is Spinal Tap and the Christopher Guest-directed A Mighty Wind and Waiting for Guffman, as w... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/440048444.html?nid=3518 Concerning the private and professional lives of a pair of female detectives, the ground-breaking TV series Cagney & Lacey ran for six-plus sea... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/1420048342.html?nid=3518 In one of the most clever efforts at dual-item marketing that I’ve encountered in recent years, Philadelphia’s Tony Luke, Jr. is making... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/110048211.html?nid=3518 It’s been nearly five years since actor David James Elliott last donned a uniform as Commander Harmon Rabb Jr., a Judge Advocate General offi... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/730048073.html?nid=3518 When we reviewed Rankin/Bass’s beloved Mad Monster Party upon its first DVD release back in 2002 (http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6184... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/490047849.html?nid=3518 In a not-so-subtle wink to his own trajectory in the entertainment business, the dark comedy Donna on Demand stars Corbin Bernsen as washed-up Holl...