• Grrrrrrrrr. After falling in love with the new 3.0 version of DVD Profiler, from the newly split-off company of Invelos (splitting away from Intervocative), the servers went offline this week in a shroud of mystery. Fellow forum users have discovered why (or at least the early stages of why). I’m going through withdrawal already. After using version 3, I just *CAN’T* go back to the 2.x version that’s still maintained at the old Intervocative site. I hope something is resolved soon. Please don’t let one of my favorite apps stagnate and/or die…
• I thought Downfall was an amazing movie when I first saw it. After a number of viewings now, it is rapidly becoming one of my all-time favorite war films. It’s just so well done, and made by the Germans no less (and if that ain’t enough irony, St. Petersburg being used as the filming location to double as WWII era Berlin!)
• Somebody who takes tests like me
• Frank Darabont confirms what we’ve all thought for some time: George Lucas has lost it.
• Oooooh, Kate Beckinsale has been cast as Barbarella. That’s a far cry better than Jane Fonda…
• So, Froogle has become Google Product Search. Personally, I think they should have left it named Froogle (a name I rather liked).
• This week’s Gilmore Girls episode reminds me of just how much better I’m liking this season of the show than last season. In what must be one of the least dramatic episodes of the season (a good thing), they take a break to do what the show does best - rapid, casual, funny, quirky characters. We get to see the Stars Hollow charm laid on for their annual Spring Fling, and we get characters patching things up finally, feeling like all the damage done to the show last year has finally been worked out. The show continues to walk the bubble for renewal next season. I’d be thrilled for it to get a pickup, but I would also be happy with it ending this year, when it can go out in good form. The show has had a better run than most any series could ask for. Seven full seasons (including surviving the death of their network) is hardly anything to shake a stick at. And most impressive is the vast array of supporting characters that have been with the show since the beginning, or at least for a while. We got to see a great many of those in this Stars Hollow heavy episode this week.
• Speaking of Kate Beckinsale, I’ve added Vacancy (8) to the 2007 Film Order list. It’s an effective, if somewhat genre restrained, low budget film. I’ve also added Perfect Stranger (5) - a weak movie which is only helped by a very talented cast.

Random Fact Of The Day: Between the two World War’s, France was controlled by forty different governments.

Dialog Of The Day: “Klytus, I’m bored. What play thing can you offer me today?” (Ming The Merciless, played by Max Von Sydow in Flash Gordon)

Video Of The Day: Here’s an interesting Stupid Pet Trick