Category: IMHO

Hulu could be awesome

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By now I’m guessing a lot of you have heard about Hulu, the new video site which features network TV and full length movies. I posted a clip on here from Saturday Night Live with Jonah Hill that was up on Hulu. The site provides higher quality video and legit content (no user-created stuff) including some videos exclusive to Hulu.

Best of all, you can watch full episodes of some of the best TV shows, like, oh, say…30 Rock!!! The only downside is that you have to sit through about three commercials within each show.

While I doubt this will replace anyone’s TV or iTunes, it is certainly a great way to catch up on episodes or clips you might have missed. No more do you have to worry about embedding a YouTube clip on your blog only to find that the network has had it pulled from the site for copyright infringement and the video no longer plays.

I can see this being huge for bloggers like myself because I can embed the best sketches from SNL without having to upload them myself or risk dead links on YouTube.

Definitely check out Hulu.com and see for yourself… or just enjoy this FULL EPISODE of 30 Rock.

Entertainment Weekly lists 20 Most Appalling TV Shows Ever

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I just had to jump on this one!

EW.com has published a list of the 20 worst TV shows of all time, including photos.

Making the list were some of Trashwire’s favorite trashy reality shows including Britney Spears’ home-made series Chaotic, the Paula Abdul mood-swing-a-thon Hey Paula!, trash classic The Anna Nicole Smith Show, the Fox plastic surgery give away The Swan, the delightfully infamous Kid Nation, the crap-tacular Cheaters, almost the entire family of Flavor Flav dating shows on VH1 as well as nearly ever program on MTV including the often ripped on My Super Sweet 16, my personal favorite reality show Big Brother, the series that made Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie household names (and made me wanna slit my wrists) The Simple Life, and of course the greatest trashy reality show of all time–something that made even us question the fate of the world–Fox’s one-time 2000 event, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?.

The list is dynamite, definitely check it out and click on the links above to see our coverage of some of these shows.

Miss Universe 1929

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Starz Denver Film Festival Review:

Miss Universe 1929 is the story of Lisl Goldarbeiter, the Austrian Beauty Queen who won the title of Miss Universe in 1929. Told using archival footage from her husband Marci Tenczer, the story follows Goldarbeiter from her childhood through her eighties as she becomes a beauty queen, lives through World War I and II, and refuses to leave her beloved city of Vienna.

The story begins and ends with Tenczer telling filmmaker Peter Forgacs how much he loved Goldarbeiter and how he thought she was the most beautiful woman to ever walk the earth. While the story of Tenczer’s love for Golddarbeiter is romantic, the film fails to go into any real detail about the more interesting parts of Goldarbeiter’s life. This is a woman who lived through two World Wars and survived a concentration camp, yet those details are barely mentioned.

Playing like a well-made home movie, the film seems like it was made for people who already know her life story, so it offers little to viewers who might not be familiar with the details of her adventures. It seems like a story like Goldarbeiter’s deserves to be told in full