I’ve heard about this, but this is the first article I’ve seen that really lays out the fuss being made over Steven Soderbergh and Mark Cuban’s plans to release a movie in theatres and on DVD at the same time. I can see why studios like it, but it’s pretty obvious that theatre chains hate the idea. Too bad though; customers want it, so it’s only a matter of time.

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I watched Prizzi’s Honor (imdb | rotten tomatoes) over the last week or so, drawn mostly by the fact that it had been nominated for 8 Oscars and was some kind of low-level classic. It was, in fact, shit. Boring shit, to be precise. It was neither dark nor a comedy, despite being billed as both. Maybe it’s just because of my hatred for the 80s, and maybe this is over-generalizing just a bit, but every single human in the world looked ugly/ridiculous/both between the years 1980 and 1989, so I didn’t buy Kathleen Turner as an attractive woman. The whole movie played like a substandard episode of an aging dramedy; you know, when a show’s been on for seven years and they know they’re going off the air so the cast just starts phoning in their performances and collecting their paycheques, not really giving a crap about the quality of their work? That’s what this felt like. And, apparently, the entire Motion Picture Academy was on coke in 1985 when they nominated it for four major awards. Yeesh.

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Speaking of phoning it in, the Habs were awful last night. They somehow managed a 1-0 lead through two periods but then coughed it up with less than ten minutes left. And when I say coughed it up, I mean Radek Bonk, with about 3 minutes left, passed it to a Colorado player in his own zone and then forgot to cover his man (who wound up scoring). Hack, hack.