Monthly Archives: May, 2012

Are you a Sharks dude or more of a Jets kinda guy? Or perhaps you've never seen West Side Story, the 1961 musical that nabbed 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Today's your chance to go all in with the 50th anniversary edition box set on sale for just $25 at Amazon. Based on a hit Broadway play that updated the tale of Romeo and Juliet to the tune of gang warfare in New York in the 1950s, West Side Story stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as star-crossed lovers who must conquer ethnic and geographic obstacles in their path. And how do you do that? You sing about it! All of the fun tunes and dazzling dance numbers are enhanced by the high def treatement and 7.1 digital sound. The box set includes a wealth of special features, including song-specific commentary by composer Stephen Sondheim.

Best Buy's CinemaNow is now available for Xbox users on Xbox Live. The service lets users rent or purchase premium titles such as Underworld:...

MLB.TV Premium for Xbox Live has launched in 18 new international markets including South Africa, Brazil and Spain. MLB.TV Premium provides on live and...

It's Tuesday, May 8, and another set of Blu-ray Discs hits the shelves. Probably the anticipated title this week is Underworld: Awakening,

DIRECTV has launched a streaming service in Beta mode, offering movies and shows on TVs, laptops, tablets and smartphones over the internet -- just like Netflix and other streaming providers.

Dish Network says they will drop all four of AMC Network's cable channels due to high licensing fees which can't be supported by viewership. T

Amazon's Blu-ray Deal of the Week is the Coen Brothers Collection, featuring their first film Blood Simple (1984), Fargo (1996), Miller's Crossing (1990), and Raising...

Will Microsoft launch a $99 Xbox console next week? We can't imagine the Xbox going for half the price of the $199 model.

Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises which gives us a lot more to chew on than the last trailer. The new 2-minute teaser shows off some amazing digital effects and previously unseen clips. There's also quite a few more scenes with Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.

HBO has decided not pick up The Corrections, the multi-part TV series based on Jonathan Franzen's novel of the same name. The pilot starred Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Angels & Demons) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight), along with Chris Cooper and Dianne Weist.