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...slow times for prestige movies and blockbusters, are the big seasons for horror films. Scare cinema opens at its peril in the summer: Snakes on a Plane won its weekend, but did only about $15 million, much less than predicted. Come September, though, The Covenant took the top slot, and The Grudge 2 was #1 two weeks ago. Other horror pictures, Final Destination 3, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning and The Hills Have Eyes (a sequel, a prequel and a remake) weren't their weekends' champs, but each took in more than $15 million - or about 50% more...
...buzz terms you might hear these days are ?time shifting? and ?place shifting.? Time shifting is what a TiVo does, recording something in the 8 pm slot that you watch later on. Place shifting is what a Slingbox does, giving you access to video stored up in one location-be it on DVD or recorded on a TiVo?s hard drive-from another place using an Internet-connected PC or mobile device...
...meal is wolfed down, to the ticking of an egg timer, during halftime of the Giants game - is a great set piece. The series will have to lose the red-sauce clich?s before we start watching it with that kind of devotion, but its good humor and uncompetitive time slot (Saturdays at 8, with no other scripted series scheduled against it, starting next week) could make it a sleeper...
Shortbus, which opens today in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in other cities next week, is a sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, or the art-house screen at your local multiplex, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...week after receiving the second spot in both the coaches’ and the media’s ECAC preseason poll, the Harvard men’s hockey team garnered more respect in the national preseason rankings, earning the 12th slot in the USCHO.com/CSTV and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls. The Crimson was the highest-ranked ECAC team in both polls, beating out No. 13 Cornell in the USCHO.com/CSTV poll and No. 14 Colgate in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. Boston College, Minnesota, and defending national champion Wisconsin were among the top three teams in both polls...