What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday


Updated 05/15/07 10:35 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 11 comments

What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. Pan's Labyrinth Not for the weak of stomach, Pan's Labyrinth is a mesmerizing, adventurous, grisly yet beautiful fantasy tale for adults. Set in 1944 Spain after the Spanish Civil War, the story follows Read more

What 2007 Oscar-Winning Movie Do You Want to See Next?


Updated 03/24/07 8:39 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

What 2007 Oscar-Winning Movie Do You Want to See Next?

Now that the 2007 Oscars have come and gone, I am anxious to catch up on my movie viewing! Though I've seen most of the winners, there are a few Oscar movies I missed. What 2007 Oscar winner have you not seen that you really want to see next? What 2007 Oscar-Winning Movie Do You Want to See Next? The Departed The Queen Little Miss Sunshine Dreamgirls The Lives of Read more

Link Time! 2/22


Updated 02/22/07 5:00 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 2 comments

Link Time! 2/22

Stereogum presents the winners of its bald Britney Photoshopping contest. While Best Week Ever posts a pitch-perfect Spears music-video parody. And Popwatch tells us that Craig Ferguson refuses kick Britney while she's down. Mourning "The OC"? The TV Addict rounds up "OCbituaries" from around the Web. My Old Kentucky Blog posts an astounding number of covers of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." I can't Read more

TV Dinners: Pan's Labyrinth - Caramelized Grapes


Updated 07/29/07 9:26 AM · Posted by YumSugar · 14 comments

TV Dinners: Pan's Labyrinth - Caramelized Grapes

Unfortunately I don't get out of the kitchen often enough to see all of the Oscar nominated movies (be sure to fill in BuzzSugar's Oscar ballot). However I did manange to make some time to check out Pan's Labyrinth, the nominee for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Although the movie is wonderfully beautiful, there is one scene that takes the cake (or should I say grape?). If you've Read more

Pan's Labyrinth: Gruesome and Amazing


Updated 04/23/07 6:06 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Pan's Labyrinth: Gruesome and Amazing

Pan’s Labyrinth has been marketed as a “fairy tale for adults,” and perhaps for lack of other categorization, it is. It has fanciful elements that could be compared to stories by Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, but this tale is even darker and more gruesome than many adult stories — fairy tale or otherwise. What it certainly is NOT is a fairy tale for children, though the previews can Read more

Movie Preview: Pan's Labyrinth


Updated 12/29/06 11:38 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 2 comments

Pan's Labyrinth opens in limited release today, and already the dark fantastical film is earning accolades and award nominations left and right. (Tune in on Tuesday for my review!) Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker who brought us Hellboy, the haunting but stunning movie tells two stories: a reality set during the Spanish Civil War and a haunting fairy tale. Check out the Read more

WTF Selma Blair?!


Updated 12/30/06 8:32 AM · Posted by · 57 comments

WTF Selma Blair?!

Selma came out to a screening of Pan's Labyrinth the other night in LA. While the night was supposed to be about the film, we can't doubt that there was much ado made over Selma's new haircut. She really seems to be digging her do which leads us to believe she may have cut her hair like this on purpose! Still, we're holding out hope that she's doing a film that's set in the 80's and that it Read more

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Light on Scares


Updated 08/26/11 3:05 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Movie Review

In Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a young girl named Sally (Bailee Madison) moves cross-country to Blackwood Manor, a Gothic estate her architect father (Guy Pearce), and his interior decorator girlfriend (Katie Holmes) are renovating. Soon after arriving, Sally begins to hear eerie voices coming from tiny creatures in the mansion's basement, and what follows is a pretty formulaic approach to a Read more