Ending Review Updates

As my mobile blog has an RSS feed I will no longer be updating the news blog with new reviews. Readers are requested to move to the http://m.tabfilm.net address for updates. You can get the feed and read reviews there.

New Reviews for March 12, 2009

This week we've had Milk, Rachel Getting Married, Let the Right One In, I've Loved You So Long and Transporter 3.

New Reviews for March 8, 2009

We have up Cuba Gooding Jr.'s vehicle Way of War and a special cinema review of Watchmen. Enjoy.

On Vacation

I will be out of town until 3/7/09 so no new reviews next week.

New Reviews

We've got Body of Lies and Religulous up now. Enjoy!

Latest Reviews

Well, I've gotten behind in my news posting, sorry, but here's a list of all the latest reviews including my special Friday the 13th cinema review!

Friday the 13th (2009)
Red Mist (2008)
The Lucky Ones (2008)
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears (2008)
Dorothy Mills (2008)
Hounddog (2007)
Against The Dark (2009)
Quarantine (2008)
The Midnight Meat Train (2008) - 100th REVIEW!!!!

Special Cinema Review

Tonight I'm going to see the Friday the 13th reboot. Directed Marcus Nispel (of the bad Texas Chainsaw remake and the worse Pathfinder) this film promises to have the blood and boobies but I'm leery of another Nispel crapfest. Stay tuned...

New Reviews Week of 2/10/08

We have new comedy Soul Men, Oliver Stone's presidential biopic W., Horror Comedy My Name is Bruce and indie hit Frozen River. Be sure to check out our mobile site at Tabfilm (ME)

New Reviews 2/0/09

New Review today: from the vault comes horror comedy, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. Enjoy.

New Reviews 2/8/09

Happy Birthday to ME! New reviews posted today: family film Madagascar 2: Escape To Africa! From the vault: horror thriller Salvage.

New Reviews 2/6/08

Added today: indie comedy Bottle Shock and micro-budget horror Small Town Folk.

New address, new engine

Dear Reader,

We have officially changed our address to http://www.tabfilm.net so be sure to update your bookmarks. To view us on your mobile phone, Blackberry or PDA, visit us at http://m.tabfilm.net for the latest reviews. You can browse while you shop!

Now that during this transition the search engine on the main page will experience some delays in catching up. Please bear with us during this change. Search should be back to normal within 48 hours.

Thank You,

Chris Morgan, Webmaster and Reviewer

2/9/08 Review Update

Added The Secret Life of Bees to the archive. Thanks for your patience in this matter. Tomorrow we have indie comedy Bottle Shock and low budget horror flick Small Town Folk. Stay tuned!

New Reviews 2/4/09

Running behind today. Up now Kevin Smith's romantic adult comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Rainn Wilson's comedy The Rocker. Coming later this afternoon, The Secret Life of Bees!

Make sure you've updated your bookmarks to www.tabfilm.net!

New Reviews 2/1/09

Happy Super Bowl Sunday. You're reviewer is hard at work. Today we're adding the family film City of Ember. And from the vault: Charlie Wilson's War. Be sure to visit us on your mobile device at Tab Mobile! Now you can read us while you're making your selection at the video store!

New Reviews 1/31/08

New Reviews today! We have horror sequel Boogeyman 3 and Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla. Enjoy. Also I've added a new mobile version of the site. Just head to here to check it out. I'm slowly adding links to the archive (have to do each one as a manual post, takes a while). Hope you guys like it.

New Reviews 1/28/08

Latest reviews posted today! Thriller Lakeview Terrace and cop drama Pride and Glory. From the vault: Irish real-life crime story Veronica Guerin.

New Reviews 1/26/09

Apologies for the late news update. Reviews have been posted for the animated film Igor, the Narnia sequel Prince Caspian, biopic The Express, and horror film Amusement. New films coming tomorrow.

New Reviews 1/23/08

Apologies for late update. Today we've got the musical Repo! The Genetic Opera. From the vault reviews of Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell and Michael Haneke's The Pianist. More coming this weekend.

New Reviews 1/21/08

New reviews added today. We have horror sequel Saw V and neo noir Max Payne.

New Reviews!

Reviews are up for the period drama The Duchess and the kids' film Horton Hears A Who. From the vault we have a review of Equilibrium. Coming soon: Max Payne, Saw V, Amusement and others...

New Section, New Reviews!

I've added a review for the dark drama 8MM and at the request of readers I've added a JUST FOR KIDS section. I'll start reviewing once a week either a kids movie or DVD. Right now I'm doing ages 0-2 (I have a niece in that age range) and have 2 reviews up. Check it out it's available from the REVIEWS main page! I hope you enjoy it.

New Reviews!

I've uploaded reviews for Rockaway, Hardcore (1979), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Lake of Fire and A Girl Cut in Two. More to come this weekend, some new, some from the vault...

Vault Reviews

Added 2 reviews from the vault today: Irreversible and Hardcore (1979). Click to read. More to come soon!

New Reviews!

Today I added reviews for the western Appaloosa and the horror film Mirrors. More to come tomorrow!

Latest Review Update

New reviews of the docudrama The Killing Of John Lennon and the documentary Young @ Heart. Check them out now. Coming soon: Appaloosa, Mirrors, and Swing Vote. Stay Tuned.

New Reviews, New Essay!

Two new reviews up today: Seed and Standard Operating Procedure. Seed is a recent horror film by Uwe Boll and Standard Operating Procedure is the latest Documentary from Errol Morris.

New essay entitled "Who Owns The Film" about ownership of interpretation is up now as well. Enjoy!

New Reviews, New Format

Today I posted reviews for the comedy Disaster Movie and the French horror film Frontier(s). Tomorrow will be Eden Lake and something from my vault, not sure what.

I'm also experimenting with a new format for the reviews. I've stopped using the cover and poster images and switched to screen caps for these two latest reviews. I'm not sure how I'll do the grabs for movies I view for Netflix on demand or any theatrical releases, but my goal is to try to do the screen grab style.

Let me know what you think.

New Reviews Coming

Tomorrow I'll be watching Frontier(s), Disaster Movie (the things I do for you readers), and probably Eden Lake. If I'm lucky the Blockbuster employee that has the ONLY copy of Man on Wire will bring it back and I'll watch it (it's holding up my best of 2008 list. It's supposed to be great and I don't want to short it). Otherwise it goes to the top of the Netflix queue. All links are to IMDB.

Search Engine Working!

It looks like the search engine is beginning to work for finding individual titles. I appreciate your patience as I get all this under control. I've added a widget for my news and blog feeds. You can of course still come here directly. Let me know if you like the new widget. You cant scroll within it, only click the scrollbar. I don't like that.

Otherwise it saves me from having to manually type in each news entry (which is what I have been doing) and I don't have to worry as much about archiving by hand. Plus anything I can host off-site saves me webspace. It's not great, but I'm getting there.

If it proves to be too much of a piss-taker then I'll probably just add wordpress in a subdomain and split that into two blogs. It's just such a pain to set up WP. I'd have to install it, then find a template I could manipulate to look like the main site (not an easy thing) especially since I'm not the best at web authoring. I just steal a lot of good html from other places and use my skills as an design hack (not hacker) to make it work. It's not pretty, the code is very messy, but it functions.

Now maybe I can get back to actually watching movies.

New Toys

I'm playing with some widgets as you might have noticed. I've added a viewer for the news. I've not got it working exactly right yet, but I'm getting there. We'll see how it turns out. I added a review for the Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days in the archive. 5 Star film, you should check out the review.

2009 Up Through 1/8/2009

The following news post was edited to remove out of date hyperlinks. New posts will have up to date links.

JANUARY 2009

New Reviews for 1/6/09
Reviews posted for Pineapple Express, Righteous Kill, Bangkok Dangerous, Inside and Calvaire. Coming Soon: In Bruges, Babylon A.D. and the classic war film The Killing Fields.
Posted 5:45 EST Jan-7, 2009


New Essay Today
As The Director Intended is a commentary on the state of DVD marketing, particularly as it applies to multiple versions of films and unrated cuts. Enjoy!
Posted 01:14 EST Jan-5, 2009


Search Engine Being Refined
I'm still working at getting the search engine to feed correctly. Right now it still only shows the review archive pages and not the reviews. I ask your continued patience as I work on this. You can still browse the reviews in our convenient archive.
Posted 23:30 EST Jan-4, 2009

Reviews Posted 1/4/2009
Today we've posted Kabluey, The Dark Knight and Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. More to come next week.
Posted 21:30 EST Jan-4, 2009

New Reviews
Posted Eagle Eye, Zombie Diaries, and The Fall. Apologies for the delay. Next week we'll have Righteous Kill and Pineapple Express.
Posted 02:33 EST Jan-3, 2009

Delayed Reviews
I apologize for the delay in getting new reviews up, I've been overwhelmed getting the website running. Coming soon, The Fall, Michael Clayton, The Re-animator, Trailer Park of Terror and Automaton Transfusion! I'll get one up tonight, hopefully the rest by Monday. Stay tuned!
Posted 21:00 EST Jan-2, 2009

Search Engine Active!
If you look in the upper right hand corner you'll see that I've added a google branded search engine. It's got some ads on the results page, but that's free search engines for you. It's not completely up to date. I now have a working template for all my pages. So far the engine hasn't done very good at picking out specific titles, so you'll probably still do better with the archives for now.
Posted 20:45 EST Jan-2, 2009

2008 News Review

I've started this news blog so I don't have to keep manually posting to the page every day. So, here's the 2008 News in a single post. The posts have had hyperlinks removed but the current news will have links.

DECEMBER 2008

Happy New Year!
I hope you and your families have a happy new year. More reviews coming tomorrow including The Fall, Red, and The Zombie Diaries. Have a safe and happy holiday.
posted 00:01 EST Jan-1, 2009

Reviews Coming on Wednesday
We'll be reviewing Resident Evil: Degeneration and Traitor this week along and we'll be adding Rambo, The Strangers and Palindromes to the archive. Available Wednesday afternoon by 3 PM EST.
posted 23:30 EST Dec-30, 2008

Coming Soon!
I'm still working on the search function, adding archive pages for reviews and essays. I'm having to hand code the pages so it's taking some time. I'm setting up templates where I can but there is a lot of infrastructre yet to complete. Please bear with me as I try to get everything running.
posted 11:30 EST Dec-30, 2008

Tabula Imago Now Functional!
I'm proud to announce that we are now at www.tabula-imago.com! Future updates coming soon. I've added the about me page, the home pages for all the sections and posted some additional reviews.
posted 11:25 EST Dec-30, 2008

Site Going Live!
The site is now up and we'll be loading up reviews as the weeks come through. The site will soon be available through it's alternate domain name, www.tabula-imago.com. Stay tuned for more updates.
posted 11:17 EST Dec-29, 2008

New Reviews Every Wednesday
We'll be bringing you the latest home video release reviews every Wednesday with other new reviews throughout the week. Stay tuned and check the review section for more.
posted 11:20 EST Dec 29, 2008

Search Function Coming Soon!
Scripting isn't my forte so I'm having to make do. I appreciate your patience during construction of the site.
posted 11:30 EST Dec 29, 2008