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  • 14 Apr

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    Watch Netflix Movies on Your Wii

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    So we all know about the greatness that is the Netflix streaming experience. If you need to see a movie now, chances are about 50/50 that Netflix can deliver it to your computer screen instantly. And with the number of titles available for streaming going up seemingly everyday, those odds are going up considerably as well.

    To make things even better, Netflix has already incorporated a few ways in which to watch said movies on your nice big 55″ TV set as well. As a recent addition, to go along with their Netflix ready video game devices (Playstation 3 and Xbox 360), you can now use your Nintendo Wii to stream movies onto your TV as well.

    All you need as the disc with your activation code, which Netflix sends you for free, and you’re pretty much off and ready to start watching flicks. Just one more (legal) addition of easy ways to watch movies in this new technological age. I’ve ordered my Wii disc and will try it out later in the week. I’ll be sure to drop back by here and leave thoughts on how well it works out.

  • 13 Apr

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    Screen Shot Quiz #189

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    I was correct in guessing that Kurt would figure yesterdays screen shot from Shallow Grave as he had mentioned it on a recent Cinecast. Like Kurt said this is one under appreciated Hitchcockian thriller. I’m going to continue on today with another screen shot from a movie that I feel is under appreciated. This movie really does a great job of what it wants to do and I really do think it was panned a bit by the critics and the general audience because it doesn’t really try to do too much more. I don’t really have a problem with it wanting to be just one thing as I said it does that one thing really well.

    I will post the answer to the quiz tomorrow along with the next quiz. Please feel free to discuss the movie once you have made your guess. Even if you are wrong we’d love to discuss you guess.

  • 09 Apr

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    Want to Help Out a Good Director?

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    Joe Schermann SongI don’t think we’ve covered up our general love for Gary King’s New York Lately (My Review) and I know that both Andrew and I are eagerly awaiting What’s Up Lovely (Check out the Trailer). King’s next project that he would like to do is a musical called How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song. King is trying to finance this movie using Kickstarter. Kickstarter allows anyone to donate money to the cause and he only has 9 days left in the pledge drive. King needs $30,000 for the pledge drive to go through (no money is donated if he doesn’t reach his goal). I’ve chipped in what I can and now I’d like to ask you to chip in whatever amount you can afford. As a special benefit of donating today you can get a free copy of New York Lately or What’s Up Lovely if you donate over $25.00. If you have already donated you can also add an an extra $5 or $10 to your contribution and you will receive one or both of them.

  • 23 Mar

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    The Good, The Bad, The Weird coming to Theatres

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    The Good, The Bad, The Weird

    My second favourite movie of 2008 is finally arriving at theatres. IFC Films has set April 23rd. I’m not sure how wide the release will be. If you can manage it be sure to check this one out. You won’t be dissapointed. The Good, The Bad, The Weird is a hell of a lot of fun.

    In the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules, the fates of three mysterious Korean men collide on a train carrying precious cargo. The Good, a suave bounty hunter, The Bad, the brazen leader of a gang of outlaws, and The Weird, a hard-up robber with nine lives, are swept up in a frantic chase across the wilderness, fighting all the way for possession of a mysterious treasure map. THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD explodes in a flurry of violence as the Japanese Army and a brassed-off posse of Chinese bandits join the pursuit. Who will claim the prize for themselves? In this pulse-pounding adventure, you can never be sure who exactly is good, bad, or weird.

    The following is my brief mini review from our post Row Three’s TOP TEN FILMS OF 2008 :

    What starts out as a pretty much fluff action, comedy western really ends up having some meat to it. Hidden within the amazing action sequences you will find a good look at how split up parts of China really were with multiple cultures all bouncing off of each other. Song Kang-ho is great once again.

    If for some reason this doesn’t make it to Saskatoon then I am going to see if I can bring it in for Dark Bridges as a midnight movie. Yes, I like it that much.

  • 12 Mar

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    A Shout Out for August Diehl

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    Last Sunday, while Inglourious Basterds was robbed of its Best Original Screenplay Oscar, it at least got some love with probably the least surprising win of the night when Christoph Waltz’s long-awaited victory finally arrived. Yet while his Colonel Hans Landa is one of the film’s chief delights, I just wanted to put the spotlight on another Nazi villain in the film who, I feel, has been eclipsed by Waltz’s one-of-a-kind performance. That character is the Gestapo Major Dieter Hellstrom, who, like Landa, but in his own way, is capable of exercising a mesmerizing screen presence. Played by German actor August Diehl, his main moment of glory is easily the deliciously tense La Louisiane sequence in which, beer boot in hand, he excruciatingly ratchets up the tension for Michael Fassbender’s rendezvous with Diane Kruger. He also appears earlier in the film when he picks up Mélanie Laurent’s Shosanna and takes her to lunch with Goebbels and company in the “German Night in Paris” chapter.

    The majority of Diehl’s work consists of films and TV projects I’ve never really heard of. However, among the more prominent things he has done is The Counterfeiters, the recent Austrian film that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (in which he ironically plays a Jewish concentration camp prisoner), and Mouth to Mouth, an indie movie which also features Ellen Page between her breakout role in Hard Candy and her “star-making” one in Juno.

    I’ll be keeping my eyes open for more of Diehl’s stuff, and in the meantime will continue to enjoy his underrated, terrific performance upon further re-viewings of Inglourious Basterds.

     

  • 08 Mar

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    What’s your favorite Best Picture Oscar winner from the past decade?

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  • 03 Mar

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    14 Karats

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    Gold

     

    For some reason or other, of late I’ve been thinking about Gold. Not the colour, but the precious metal used for things like jewelry, crowns and the occasional medal (like, say, 14 of them). Not sure why – maybe it’s due to the fast approaching Oscars and their little gold statues or because of those who seek to invest heavily in the yellowish ore due to the economy. Whatever the case, it’s been on my mind for about the last 2 and a half weeks or so.

    So in honour of that most malleable of metals, here’s a list of 14 films (hmmm, there’s that number again…) that are centered around good old atomic number 79:


    Barbary-Coast Bunny


    (1956 – Chuck Jones)

    As fine as the rest of these films are, this is likely my favourite of the bunch. One of the classic Warner Brothers Looney Tunes, it’s Bugs Bunny at his best. Perhaps not as visually beautiful as some of their shorts or as inventive as the all-time classic Duck Amuck, but it’s filled with Bugs’ pithy comments, witty retorts and sly efforts to get his revenge.

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  • 01 Mar

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    Row Three New Design

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    Guess what everyone. It is time again for us contributors to become bored with our site. When this happens I end up spending a bunch of time (which is actually a lot of fun as I love playing with the design) in long discussions with the contributors, many design committee meetings and finally many hours sitting in front of my computer banging my head against the table when the design is 2 pixels off.

    Seriously though, I hope everyone enjoys the tweaked look for Row Three. I am sure there are glitches (like I just noticed that I forgot to do a search box) and I appreciate everyone’s patience while I fix the them. If do you notice something that doesn’t look right or is down right broken feel free to send an email to john@rowthree.com and I’ll fix it as soon as possible.

    Oh and don’t forget there are only a few more days to enter in the Oscar Pool!

    Also… don’t you just love freaking out cats.

  • 18 Feb

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    Server Upgrade

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    Just wanted to let everyone know that the Row Three server is being upgraded today. Sorry for any downtime. We will resume our normal posting and discussions shortly.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

  • 17 Feb

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    All About Evil – Guess Who

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    I thought it might be fun to see if people can figure out who that is in the poster for All About Evil

    All About Evil is…

    a twisted black comedy set in the world of a classic old horror movie– and a love letter to classic movie houses everywhere! The evil begins when Deborah, a mousy librarian, inherits her father’s beloved but failing old movie house, the Victoria. In order to save the family business, she discovers her inner serial killer– and starts turning out a series of grisly short films. Deborah quickly cultivates a rabid legion of San Franciscan gore fans who help catapult her to new-found local celebrity– business booms so quickly, she’s forced to bring on a full film crew of like-minded misfits to meet the demand! Her adoring public, and even her biggest fan– high school student Steven– don’t realize that the murders in the movies are all too real. But will this brooding youth catch the blame as Deborah’s steady stream of ‘actors’ keep disappearing at an ever-quickening pace? What grisly fate awaits those that dare enter the Victoria theatre?

    You can find out who that is in the poster under the seat…
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  • 16 Feb

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    Brad Pitt + Wes Anderson = Tati-Inspired Goodness

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    A few days ago, after I had revisited Jacques Tati’s magical widescreen epic Playtime, I was cruising around the net reading up on him and his body of work. Thanks to an article from the Guardian, I stumbled across yet another Youtube hidden gem: a Japanese cell phone commercial that Wes Anderson made with Brad Pitt. Shot in one take, it features Pitt pulling off a pretty good Monsieur Hulot as one gag after another (all reminiscent of similar ones in Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, the first Tati film in which the famous character appeared) unfolds onscreen. The commercial is pretty short, and the video quality is somewhat blurry, but it still makes for a pretty delightful half-minute of your time.

    P.S. Could this point the way to a bigger Anderson-Pitt collaboration further down the road? Only time will tell…

    You can find the commercial tucked under the seat, as well as the more widely-seen one for American Express in which Anderson paid tribute to François Truffaut’s Day for Night.

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  • 05 Feb

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    Talk Amongst Yourselves

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    Christopher Walken

     

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