On Demand Weekly Vodder Blog http://ondemandweekly.com/ en bensenb1@yahoo.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-10T09:27:14+00:00 T Tara On Demand: MTV Cribs http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/t_tara_on_demand_mtv_cribs/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/t_tara_on_demand_mtv_cribs/#When:09:27:14Z
MTV Cribs – Kerri Dillon
MTV On Demand

Kerri Dillon isn’t somebody I know at all but Cribs has been around since I was young (yes, THAT long) and it was the original inspiration for house stuff I’d never seen before. So I’ll watch the snow boarder champion (he mentioned it) give me a tour and get some ideas for when the big lotto ticket comes in.
 
Things to wish for: a Boost Mobile phone booth, a hot tub on the deck, a macked out wooden cabin.
 
I picked this Kerri Dillon guy cause he has a family and I was thinking the design might be less Spring Break and more Spring Relax. I love it when a man talks thread count! Thread count on linens is important. He’s only up to a thousand. I’m in the low hundreds. Great. The color scheme is lovely and dark. I do like the rug in the living room since it’s comfortable looking and big. Mental note. And there was a great portrait of his dad who passed away. That’s a great idea too! I gotta remember that.
 
Then we get to the cars. And well, I don’t’ have it like that so he can enjoy his macked out Bentley snowmobile all on his own.
 
MTV Cribs – Kerri Dillon
Available on MTV Cribs until 3/22/10
 
T.Tara Turk is a contributing writer to On Demand Weekly. She is a writer living in LA, navigating the world of "writing for a living" minimally. She maintains a blog at www.ttaraturk.com  while working on screenplays, fiction and plays.
]]> 2010-03-10T09:27:14+00:00 T Tara On Demand - HGTV House Crashers On Demand http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/t_tara_on_demand_house_crashers/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/t_tara_on_demand_house_crashers/#When:09:23:34Z
Josh Temple – House Crashers
HGTV

I woke up this morning with the desire to get hardcore with this design idea. Josh Temple’s House Crashers sounded just like what I needed. Josh contracts himself out to people who have projects and these people need a new bedroom because theirs looks like a dorm room. Hey! That’s not me standing there but that’s my problem!
 
This couple has the foxy sliding mirror closet doors. Sexy. Their carpet is “go team” blue. The entry way to the bathroom is wide enough for the husband’s wheelchair (again, making me feel like I’m a dope since I’m perfectly healthy). Josh is going to save the day! Josh and his team of almost 15. I need a crew. One thing I notice is that they have a floor diagram. The BF is good at those. One crew member down, fourteen more to go. They demo the mirror closet door! Isn’t that bad luck? Maybe just for the mirror. This is some serious demolition. I want one of those hammers that breaks threw walls. But we rent. So maybe I should bypass that.
 
The “go team” blue carpet is being replaced with hardwood but right before the hardwood, there’s a big concrete floor grinder that I immediately add to my Christmas list. That looks like a good time. I’m digging project but this one is a bit more intense than my needs. I mean there are door frames involved. If I learn all this, I could change careers. Hmmm…wait! Stop sidetrack thought. This is what gets me into procrastination trouble. But Josh seems to joke around a lot so maybe procrastination isn’t so bad. Except he has a crew, Tara. Right. Good one.
 
There are some great details like thinking of where to put organizational things and light fixtures so they don’t impede with door closures. No detail is too small for me.
 
 
Joh Temple – House Crashers
Available on HGTV ON Demand until 3/15/10
 
T.Tara Turk is a contributing writer to On Demand Weekly. She is a writer living in LA, navigating the world of "writing for a living" minimally. She maintains a blog at www.ttaraturk.com  while working on screenplays, fiction and plays.
]]> 2010-03-09T09:23:34+00:00 Academy Award Winners Available On Demand http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/academy_award_winners_on_demand/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/academy_award_winners_on_demand/#When:11:00:59Z

Last night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scienes (AMPAS) announced winners for the Oscars.  The following 82nd Academy Award winners are now available via video on demand.

  • The Hurt Locker – Best Picture
  • The Hurt Locker/Kathryn Bigelow – Best Director
  • Hurt Locker – Best Editing
  • The Cove – Best Documentary

  • Hurt Locker – Best Sound Mixing
  • Hurt Locker – Best Sound Editing
  • Star Trek – Best Make Up
  • Hurt Locker – Best Original Screenplay
  • Up – Best Animated Feature
  • Inglourious Basterds/Christoph Waltz - Best Supporting Actor

 

*pricing and availability subject to vary from market to market

]]> 2010-03-08T11:00:59+00:00 Movies on Demand Coming Soon This Week Precious http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/movies_on_demand_coming_soon_precious/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/movies_on_demand_coming_soon_precious/#When:10:59:03Z

New Films on VOD for the Week of March 8

 

Precious

Academy Award winner, Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson stars in a breakthrough performance as an overweight, illiterate Harlem teen who is pregnant with her second child and is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.  Precious also won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

 

Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson, Paula Patton. R / 109 minutes / Available 3/09

 


Michael Jackson’s This Is It

Michael Jackson's This Is It offers fans and music lovers worldwide a behind-the-scenes look at the Gloved One as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer.

Michael Jackson. PG / 112 minutes / Available 3/12

 


Pirate Radio

Pirate Radio tells the true story of a band of rogue radio DJs that captivated Britain in the 1960s, blasting rock and pop music from a boat off-shore in direct defiance to the government.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy. R / 116 minutes / Available 3/11

 

]]> 2010-03-08T10:59:03+00:00 T Tara On Demand: 1st Time Design http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/t_tara_on_demand_first_time_design/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/t_tara_on_demand_first_time_design/#When:09:18:32Z
Vern Yip
HGTV On Demand

In my head, I’m an international interior designer. I’m the Michael Kors of homes. In reality? My apartment looks like I’m still in college. My clothes are comfortable on the floor, my books shun a bookcase, my clutter piles are expecting a maid anytime now. Whenever I think I like a color scheme, it comes out looking off. My goal this year is to get that together. Especially since we might be moving soon!
 
Vern Yip is one of my favorite HGTV stars. He’s so nice. I wonder if he’ll end up on an MTV Celebrity Death Match. That would be fun. Except when I see his show First Time Design, which takes a layman (like me) and gets them to design a room for other people, with Vern’s help. This episode, the newby is Monica, an almost legally blind stay at home mom with a retina disease. Hmmm. She might be the only one I have head’s up on. She’s got to put a living room together for a couple who want a Balinese design. Hey, I like that too! I think.
 
Monica gets a crew to help but design is hard and she’s got to be in charge of it all. No pressure! They take us on her shopping and selecting adventures and I’m confused as to why the never address how she can select things being legally blind but I gotta say, she’s picking out some great stuff. What’s my excuse? Great. Except she hits a wall when her paint color goes wrong and she gets overwhelmed. Now maybe we’re related! She can’t paint the entryway because of time management. Time management is evil, Monica. Unless it’s an app on your iPhone/iTouch. Then it’s an obsession. But her colors are great! I love the light blue walls. They seem soothing. Stealing it.
 
The upside for me would be I have no set time limit like Monica. And Vern won’t be coming to visit me…he won’t, right?
 
Monica’s reveal is wonderful! I’m inspired. She’s got the knickknacks that go where they’re supposed to. The colors are soothing. This may sound a little cheesy (get tissue), but when Monica talks about being steered away from design school because of her eye sight, I choke up a bit. And it make me want to get my living room together. (Put tissue away). Do I know how to do it by myself? Not really. Lots of the focus of the show was on the technique but not the design details. This show felt good. I need more though to get myself together.
 
 
Vern Yip – First Time Design
Available on HGTV On Demand until 3/15/10
 
T.Tara Turk is a contributing writer to On Demand Weekly. She is a writer living in LA, navigating the world of "writing for a living" minimally. She maintains a blog at www.ttaraturk.com  while working on screenplays, fiction and plays.
]]> 2010-03-08T09:18:32+00:00 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2010 ON DEMAND http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/the_oscar_nominated_short_films_2010_on_demand/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/the_oscar_nominated_short_films_2010_on_demand/#When:23:58:23Z

 

Academy’s picks of the best short films of the year are now available for the first time on demand, presented by Shorts International

The Academy Award Nominated Short Films are often difficult for film fans to find. Now, for the first time ever, “The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2010” will be available via cable’s Movies On Demand (MOD), presented by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures.

The Academy Award Nominated Short Films are often difficult for film fans to find. Now, for the first time ever, “The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2010” will be available via cable’s Movies On Demand (MOD), presented by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures. The nation’s leading MOD distributor, iN DEMAND L.L.C., will make the films available to U. S. digital cable audiences through Movies On Demand (MOD) starting March 3rd in both standard and high definition.

Nominees in both the Live ActionandAnimatedcategorieswill be available on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks systems around the country. The two cable MOD programs, and the films included within them, are:

 

 
OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2010
 
“2010 Live-Action Nominated Shorts”– (total running time 97 min)
•           “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn –(Ireland, 17 min.)
•           “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström (Sweden, 18 min.)
•           “Kavi” Gregg Helvey (India/U.S.A., 19 min.)
•           “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey (Australia, 18 min.)
•           “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson (U.S.A./Denmark, 20 min.)
 
OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2010
 
“2010 Animated Nominated Shorts”– (total running time 97 min)
•           “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert (France, 8 min.)
•           “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell (Ireland, 6 min.)
•           “The Lady and the Reaper” Javier Recio Gracia (Spain, 8 min.)
•           “Logorama” H5 (France, 17 min.)
•           “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park (U.K., 29 min.)
 
Additional Films*
•           *“The Kinematograph” Tomek Baginski (Poland, 12 min.)
•           *“Runaway” Cordell Barker (Canada, 9 min.)
 
“These short films are great entertainment, featuring some of the world’s best filmmaking” said Carter Pilcher, Chief Executive of Shorts International. “These filmmakers are the talent of the future. We are thrilled to be able to bring their films to cable viewers across the country.”
 
*Note:The short films “Runaway” and “The Kinematograph” which were shortlisted but not ultimately nominated for an Academy Award, will also be included in this program.
]]> 2010-03-05T23:58:23+00:00 Hot Movies On Demand Couples Retreat A Threepeat! http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/hot_movies_on_demand_couples_retreat_a_threepeat1/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/hot_movies_on_demand_couples_retreat_a_threepeat1/#When:16:28:20Z

Hot Movies On Demand - The Week’s Top Ten VOD Movies

 

Joey: Please take the bikini pictures off of your facebook page.

-       Couples Retreat

 

The top ten video on demand (VOD) movies for the week ending February 28, 2010 are:

 

10. Hurt Locker                               

9. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs                                            

8. Sorority Row                              

7. The Stepfather                                                                                                    

6. Everybody’s Fine                                                                                                                       


       

5. The Time Traveler’s Wife                                                                         

4. Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant                                                                                     

3. The Informant!                                                                                                                                                                                  

2. The Box                                                                                                             

1. Couples Retreat

 

 

Source:  Rentrak 2010

]]> 2010-03-05T16:28:20+00:00 Movies On Demand Coming Soon Where The Wild Things Are http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/movies_on_demand_coming_soon_where_the_wild_things_are/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/movies_on_demand_coming_soon_where_the_wild_things_are/#When:11:00:14Z

New Films on VOD for the Week of March 1

 

Where The Wild Things Are

Based on the book by Maurice Sendak, 'Where the Wild Things Are,' is a classic story about childhood and the fantasy world we create to explore our imaginations. It will be available On Demand the same day as DVD.

Max Records, Catherine Keener. PG / 101 minutes / Available 3/2

 


Gentlemen Broncos

From the writer-director of Napoleon Dynamite this is a quirky comedy about a teenager who attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Michael Angarano, Jennifer Coolidge. PG-13 / 99 minutes / Available 3/2

 


Zombieland

The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies…sort of.

Woody Harrelson, Amber Heard. R / 88 minutes / Available 3/4

 

 

]]> 2010-03-01T11:00:14+00:00 Hot Movies On Demand Couples Retreat Again! http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/hot_movies_on_demand_couples_retreat_again/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/hot_movies_on_demand_couples_retreat_again/#When:11:00:28Z

Hot Movies On Demand - The Week’s Top Ten VOD Movies

 

Dave: Is his junk literally out of his pants?
Ronnie: Yes.
Dave: Now it's a party.

- Couples Retreat

 

The top ten video on demand (VOD) movies for the week ending February 21, 2010 are:

 

10. The Hangover                           

9. Hurt Locker                                 

8. Amelia               

7. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself                                                                                     

6. Pandorum                                                                                              


                     

5. Love Happens                                                                            

4. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs                                                                                

3. The Stepfather                                                                                                                                                                                  

2. The Time Traveler’s Wife                                                                          

1. Couples Retreat

]]> 2010-02-26T11:00:28+00:00 Movies On Demand Coming Soon September Issue http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/movies_on_demand_coming_soon_september_issue/ http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/movies_on_demand_coming_soon_september_issue/#When:11:00:10Z

New Films on VOD for the Week of February 22

 

 

September Issue

A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue

Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington.  PG-13 / 90 minutes / Available 2/23
HDHD not available in all systems

 

 


The Box

An average suburban couple are presented with a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring them a million dollars, but simultaneously take the life of someone they don't know

Cameron Diaz, James Marsden. PG-13 / 116 minutes / Available 2/23

 

 

Cirque du Freak:  The Vampire’s Assistant

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Based on the hugely popular series, Cirque Du Freak tells the tale of a boy who breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires.

John C. Reilly, Ken Wantanabe. PG-13 / 109 minutes / Available 2/23

 

 


The Informant

A top-ranking executive at an agri-industry giant suddenly turns whistleblower, envisioning himself a hero, yet his ever-changing stories threaten the FBI's case against the corporation

Matt Damon, Scott Bakula. R / 108 minutes / Available 2/23

 

 


Sorority Row

When a pledge week prank goes terribly wrong and one of their own is killed, the popular, hard-partying sisters of Theta Pi vow never to speak of the tragedy again.

Briana Evigan, Jamie Chung. R / 101 minutes / Available 2/23

 

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