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Blog IMDb Turned 19 This Past Weekend dOc has had a long relationship with this invaluable Internet resource from searching for bits of information on movies to having our reviews posted as external links. SO many times before IMDb, an obscure actor or show episode would pass by so quickly and there was just no way to really follow up. But this is no longer with the astonishing amount of information about movies and television that is stored at this site. The site started long before web browsing with a group of scripts that allowed a news group user to search "rec.arts.movies". Follow this link to read a history of the site written by founder Col Needham. Posted by: Jesse Shanks - October 18, 2009, 9:57 pm - Article Blog Rotten Tomatoes Lists The Worst of the Worst Movies of the Last 10 Years  Rotten Tomatoes has a respected reputation when it comes to movie reviewing and digitallyOBSESSED.com has had a long relationship with them, extending back to the founding of both sites. You will find many of dOc reviewers represented on RT. Click here for a funny article that presents "a veritable cornucopia of dull, foolhardy, and outright terrible films." The list contains the worst reviewed movies of the last ten years. I hate to admit how many of these worst movies that I have seen. Bet you have more than a few too. Posted by: Jesse Shanks - October 4, 2009, 10:55 pm - Article Article digitallyOBSESSED.com on iPhone  iPhone users will find that if they go to the digitallyOBSESSED.com home page with Mobile Safari, they will be redirected to a specially-formatted version of the site. The special home page provides links to the most recent reviews, articles, press releases and news source links. Provided to share items in each will be selected social networking sites links and a link to email a URL of the item. For purchasing an item, most will contain links that will take the user to the iPhone version of Amazon.com. News source links will take the user to the referenced article in a new browser window in Mobile Safari. Read More... DVD Review CRASH: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON  While not the best show on TV or DVD, Crash can be diverting and fun in a pulpy kind of way, like a decent detective novel. But, it seems like there should be more. Read More... Article Listening to the Contestant Recordings American Idol Season 8  A co-worker has the recorded versions of each week of American Idol Season 8 performances. We have the songs loaded on one of the lesser used PCs and use iTunes to play them in various rotating playlist configurations. It turns out that these are some of our favorite things to listen to while at work. Read More... Press Release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Diamond Edition Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack - Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment  The Diamond Collection debut of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will keep audiences spellbound for hours with exciting content exclusive to this historic release, presented with spectacular newly restored picture and 7.1 Digital Theater System Hi-Def Surround Sound. Utilizing the latest in technology, possible only by the power of Blu-ray, the release includes "Disney Smart Navigation," allowing the magic and personality of Disney Characters to come to life as never before. "Disney Family Play", the ultimate interactive Hi-Def experience, offers a variety of immersive games, activities and unprecedented levels of personalization and customization features, to transform how families experience home entertainment together. Read More... Press Release A Miser Brothers' Christmas (Deluxe Edition & I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown on DVD Oct 6 - Warner Home Video  A Miser Brothers' Christmas (Deluxe Edition) is an all new original movie that's available on DVD for the first time. The special originally premiered on ABC Family's "25 Days of Christmas" television event in 2008. The special aired four times during the holidays and was the highest rated program on ABC Family the day it premiered. I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown centers on Rerun Van Pelt, Linus' and Lucy's lovable and wise-beyond-his-years little brother who wants a dog for Christmas after he sees what a great relationship Charlie Brown and Snoopy share. The Van Pelts however, don't think he's ready or capable to care for a pet yet. Read More... DVD Review MAN VS. WILD WITH BEAR GRYLLS SEASON 3  Can be an entertaining ride for the bug-eating, urine-soaking, alligator-wrestling crowd. Read More... Article Playlist: Jesus Christ Superstar (The Expanded Version)  Back when I was younger, one album we had that we played often was the Original Cast Recoding of Jesus Christ Superstar Read More... DVD Review SUPER FRIENDS: THE LOST EPISODES  There is a simple refreshing quality to these tales of action and adventure. Engaging for youngsters and generally not offensive in their content, these discs will provide a reasonable amount of entertainment. Not too bad a deal. Read More... Press Release Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins on DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack Sep 22 - Warner Home Video  The highly-anticipated movie reveals the never-before-told tale of how the Mystery Inc. crew originally came together along with the world's most famous Great Dane. A co-production of Warner Premiere and Cartoon Network, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins video also features an array of enhanced content including behind-the-scenes yearbook footage, a Mystery Inc. personality quiz, pop-up facts and even Scooby ring 'rones! Read More... DVD Review JASON ALDEAN: WIDE OPEN LIVE & MORE  if you are looking for a harder edge to your country music, Jason Aldean might be the ticket with hits like "She's Country" and "Big Green Tractor". Read More... DVD Review ONE TREE HILL: THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON  Love it or hate it, the show is increasing in popularity. There is a big risk to its continuance with the significant cast changes in store for the next season. The DVD provides the nice "soap-opera-on-disc" continuity that allows the viewer to blend the episodes together and find new levels of continuity that are not available in the weekly, commercial interrupted versions. Read More... Press Release Fighting on DVD and Blu-ray Aug 25 - Universal Studios Home Entertainment  The film that Pete Hammond (Hollywood.com) calls a total knockout is now available to own with two versions on one disc, including the theatrical version plus the unrated cut with even more ferocious fighting! Starring Channing Tatum, Academy Award® nominee Terrence Howar, Zulay Henao and Luis Guzman. Read More... Press Release Award-winner Katyn Comes to DVD Aug 11 - KOCH Lorber Films  Katyn has received international acclaim as official selections at some of the world's most prestigious festivals, including Tribeca, Berlin and Denver, where it captured the award for best feature film. A winner of the European Film Award prix d'excellence, it was also a seven-time winner at the polish film awards for best film, best supporting actress, best cinematography, best production design, best costume design, best sound and best music. Read More... Press Release August Home Entertainment Releases - E1 Entertainment  London to Brighton, Mistral's Daughter, Almost Heaven, Dark Rising, Life With Derek: The Complete Second Season Read More... DVD Review SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS 1960S VOLUME 1  A nostalgic set of cartoon fun from the 1960s, one can find a lot entertainment in these old-school cartoons starring The Flintstones, QuickDraw McGraw, Space Ghost, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and more. Read More... Blog Before the Flood: Apple iPorn Drama [updated AGAIN]  The latest revision of Apple iPhone Software allows for parental controls, which has opened the door for "adult" content on the iTunes App Store. Yesterday, TechCrunch breathlessly reported the appearance of Hottest Girls in the App Store which featured "nude topless pics." Then, this morning, they reported that Apple had pulled the application and showed a screen shot of its unavailability, suggesting that it "slipped through the cracks", as it were. Now, at midday, it has emerged that the application Hottest Girls has not been pulled, but rather the demand for it by iPhone users had crashed the download servers! Apparently, other "porn" apps are currently available. They reported Allen the Geek writing on his web site: "The Hottest Girls app is temporarily sold out. The server usage is extremely high because of the popularity of this app." After Apple allowed the flatulence apps on the store, there suddenly was a flood of similar noisemakers. One can only think that a similar rush of dubious software is poised to populate the "back room" of the App Store and feel sorry for the poor Apple employees who are going to have run these apps to "approve" them. It will no doubt add a whole new meaning to "there's an app for that." Posted by: Jesse Shanks - June 26, 2009, 9:30 am - Article News Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: An awesome show, so what went wrong? - Examiner.com Posted by: Jesse Shanks - June 23, 2009, 11:47 pm - NewsKeywords: science fiction, television Blog Geek Sheek  Suddenly Geekdom is even more in vogue than ever before. The President is a nerd. Jimmy Fallon has brought true Nerdom to late night television. Twitter is saving the world or at least drawing attention. Playmates send tweets about replacing their hard drives and other technical details. The twists and turns of Steve Jobs' illness has transfixed both the tech world and Wall Street. The anti-nerd, cheerleader led Republican Party is in retreat on all fronts. As John Hodgman said at the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner, "Soon Evolution will be decriminalized in many states." Welcome to Nerdworld! Posted by: Jesse Shanks - June 23, 2009, 11:08 am - Article Blog The "TMZ"-ing of Entertainment News  Regularly on this site we post links to news items that we feel might be of interest to our readers. Maybe an item that is not covered by the general news sites, such as a mention of an important new documentary or an interview with an industry figure. This task has become more difficult because so much of "Entertainment News" is now just so much awful, useless gossip about pseudo-celebrities. For example, on a Monday afternoon the top stories on Google's Entertainment section are: Chris Brown Strikes a Plea Deal, Farrah Fawcett Is Back in the Hospital, Perez Hilton Say He Was Punched By Peas' Manager, Gosselin's Reportedly Filed for Divorce, and Megan Fox Apologizes for Snubbing Child's Rose. This is entertainment news? These are the top stories of the entertainment industry? Well, in a word, yes. In recent years, the level of journalism in the United States has plummeted to new lows. Likewise the interest in the quirks of "celebrities" has skyrocketed. Even events that should be reported as news are treated with the same "reality" treatment. Can anyone forget the horror of what passed for journalism in the recent Presidential election? Or the pathetic attempts to cover the wars, the global financial crisis, the environmental disaster? Our modern life demands the death of the old journalism, but what will replace it? More offshoots of the Maury, Judge Judy, Wife Swap, The Bachelor, ad nauseum? Posted by: Jesse Shanks - June 22, 2009, 3:03 pm - Article Article Pixar's Up Blimp Sighted in Oakland  Sighting of the Up blimp motoring over dOc's Headquarters in Oakland. Click "Read More..." to see more. Read More... Article Star Trek: It's All About Us  This review doesn't contain any spoilers. So if you have not seen the film or any of the teasers, trailers, sneak peeks, previews, special previews or Twitter tweets - I won't be giving away the secrets. In the anticipation of the film, then the seeing of the film and then the post-film contemplation of the film; I realized that the release of this film is really about myself. Really. And if you go see the film, it's not going to be about Star Trek - it's going to be all about you. Read More... Article Between a Rock and an Idol Place  American Idol rocks and the contestants put on a great show. From Adam's Zeppelin jam to the scream from Danny, the like of which has not been heard since Howard Dean was running for President, it was all great entertainment. Heading down into the final weeks, will we finally get the shocker result that everyone is begging for? America, it was up to you! Read More... Article Ten Plot Devices to Help Save Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles  Following last week's Season Finale for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the news net was abuzz with rumors that Fox had already struck the set (later denied) and the show was already axed. Low ratings were apparently the main reason, with only 3.6 million tuning in for the end of Season Two. The move to Friday night and pairing with the somewhat lightweight Sci-fi drama Dollhouse, did little to resuscitate a show that had already been close to cancellation. We put on our little pointy hats and tried to come up with some ideas that might get on table and make the show more viable for a third season. Read More... Contributor Bio
Info I have been a fan of movies for my whole life and have even took some time to study them in college. I would say that my favorite director is Stanley Kubrick. My favorite star is Marlon Brando. My favorite movie is probably The Godfather, but that is hard to say. I enjoy classic film, as well. Equipment Panasonic 32" TV Extra Programmer of this web site and creator of all the database connectivity that drives the dynamic content. View Legacy Reviews from this Reviewer |
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. One of the highlights of a trip I made to London back in 1977 was seeing a big-time production of Superstar. Recently, I had an occasion to download the older Broadway cast version as MP3s from a download promotion. I put it on my iPhone and have enjoyed listening to it, but the other day I had a thought of using iTunes to expand it out a bit. Using the playlist of the cast recording, I added various songs that I hoped would add amplification, commentary, irony or complement the story line. All the songs came from my iTunes library and, ultimately, I wanted to create a listenable playlist.
