TVSquad

• I've recently become obsessed with Video On Demand, both through Netflix and through my cable company, so I'm excited that its future is being discussed at Fantastic Fest. I want more available now, please!
• "Why TV is (sometimes) better than the movies:" Whaaaa? I mean, I totally agree, but this isn't something I expected to see on Cinematical.
• OMG I want to see Zombieland so badly. It's like someone snuck into my brain and said, "Hey Kona, I want to make a movie exactly for you." I'm planning on seeing it this weekend, and I can only hope that it won't let me down. You can read Cinematical's Zombieland review here.
• Everything I've heard about Mo'Nique's performance in Precious is that she is AMAZING. So the idea that she should be denied an Oscar nomination because she is reportedly skipping press events for the film is asinine. If she deserves it, she deserves it-- whether or not she wants to play the game.
• I understand why Michael Moore is inviting jobless and homeless folks to a screening of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, but do they really need to sit in a theater for two hours and relive how the government and Wall Street screwed them?

• Did you know that ten members of the Wayans family makes appearances in Dance Flick? Read the review here.
• If you remember, when Heath Ledger passed away, he was in the middle of filming the Terry Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. It premiered at Cannes this week; you can read the review here.
• Michael Moore's next film sets its release date. It's a look at the current financial crisis, and comes out October 2, a year and a day after the $700 million Wall Street bailout.
• I'm saying right here and right now, that I have zero interest in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so I would already be in trouble. Cinematical asks, "What films would you break up over?"
• It's been getting mixed reviews, so Cinematical asks how you rate Terminator Salvation.

• Big Brother 8 premieres next week, and it has a twist I'm feeling a little suspicious about.
  
• Josh Duhamel says the bad reputation that soap actors have in Hollywood is unfair.
  
• Michael Moore is having a hard time keeping his TV interviews these days.
  

• Charlie Rose: Paul Simon
• The Daily Show: Claire Danes
• The Colbert Report: Doug Bailey
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Robin Williams and Julie Chen
• Jay Leno: Dr. Phil and Velvet Revolver
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: George Foreman, Jennifer Esposito, and Tiger Army
• Tavis Smiley: Michael Moore and Don Cheadle
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Jake Gyllenhaal, Lance Armstrong, and Bayside (repeat)
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Ludacris, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Bobby Valentino
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Cheryl Hines and Midnight Movies (repeat)

(S03E07) I'm sure that many of us have either been laid-off from their jobs or know someone that has, so this episode surely hit home with quite a number of people.

As what took place with the British version of The Office, Jan tells Michael that corporate has decided to close the Scranton office and will transfer a few staffers to the Stamford branch. Someone once said to me that you never truly find out what a person is made of until you seem him/her deal with a crisis. Watching Michael go to extremes to save his employees (and himself) showed that despite his overbearing, obnoxious, pompous personality, he does have a soul, and you ended up rooting for him to save the day. Of course, it was all moot when we learned earlier that after Josh decided to move on to Staples, the Stamford branch would be closed and merged into Scranton.