Honoring Stanley Kubrick

As a way of promoting its upcoming broadcasts of Stanley Kubrick's films, England's Channel 4 has created an ingenious TV ad that imagines what it must have looked like to Kubrick to come to work to the set of The Shining. If you're a fan of that film, you are going to absolutely love this clip. Check it out.

Arrested Development: The Movie is coming

Actor Jeffrey Tambor has told EW.com that the much-rumored big-screen spin-off of the late, great FOX TV sitcom Arrested Development is a go. "After months of speculation, I think we have finally figured out for sure that we are indeed doing [a film]," Tambor told the magazine. Now I just need a Deadwood film adaptation and I can close my existing file of Prematurely Canceled TV Programs That Would Make Great Movies.

A death in "Twin Peaks"

Actor Don S. Davis, best known for a recurring role in seven seasons of the sci-fi TV series Stargate SG-1, died June 29 after a heart attack.

To me, though, Davis was Major Garland Briggs, the Air Force officer from Twin Peaks whose son Bobby was always causing trouble in town.

Major Briggs, whose secretive work may have had something to do with Project Blue Book, was abducted by aliens during the show's second season. Upon his return, he uttered my all-time favorite line of Twin Peaks dialogue, which had been previously heard during a dream sequence: "The owls are not what they seem." This confirmed my long-held suspicion that owls are, in fact, extra-terrestrials, sent here to surreptitiously study the human race.

R.I.P., Mr. Davis.

"The Godfather" is coming to Blu-ray

Here's an offer no owner of a hi-def TV set can refuse: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, which recently underwent a frame-by-frame restoration, is coming to Blu-ray on Sept. 23.

The films are also being issued on a five-disc DVD set, although the four-disc Blu-ray box will contain a slew of exclusive extras, all of them in HD. The DVD set will cost $73, while the Blu-ray will set you back $120. Small price to pay for two of the greatest films ever made (and one superfluous sequel).

Reviews of "The Dark Knight" are starting to trickle in

The buzz around The Dark Knight is kicking into overdrive following several screenings held this weekend in Los Angeles.

The New York Post reports the movie pretty much belongs to Heath Ledger, while Rope of Silicon's Brad Brevet says the same thing, placing Ledger's Joker alongside all-time great movie villains such as Hannibal Lecter, John Doe and Scarface.

I wish I could chime in and tell you what I thought of the movie. But nooooo.

Another big weekend at the box office

WALL-E's $62 million gross over the weekend - the second-biggest June opening ever - wasn't a huge surprise, considering the ecstatic reviews the film received and Pixar's track record at the box office.

What was not as expected was the $51 million Wanted earned, especially since the movie bears an R-rating and Angelina Jolie is not usually a box office draw, her magazine-cover popularity notwithstanding.

Also this weekend, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull inched a few dollars shy of the $300 million mark, although it may have a tough time dethroning Iron Man as the reigning summer box office champ. On deck for the Fourth of July holiday is Hancock, which is guaranteed to open huge, although early reviews do not bode well for its longetivity. And then the Bat arrives on July 18.