A fairly accurate description, no doubt! The Times has a crazy-cool infographic about which zip codes rent what movies in 12 cities. Naturally, Milk and Rachel Getting Married have done very, very, very well. Fun! Also: Jersey <3's Shitty Movies. [NYT]

Teen sex comedies about sexy teens that only want to have sex are Hollywood's way of turning TV stars into movie stars and The Trojan War is the best example of that concept failing spectacularly. It's the anti-Can't Hardly Wait.

A lot of movies have twists. Some of these twists will cause you to nod your head and say, "Well done, sir" or "Good show."

There was a brief time in history when Devon Sawa was a star and Slackers was his crowning achievement.

Ah, Can't Hardly Wait. The teen movie of all 90s teen movies- a mockable story of a hopeless romantic nerd-type who's in love with the popular girl. The movie is a "Where's Waldo" of actors who became successful later on.

In this slasher-movie spoof, a homicidal turkey axes off college kids during Thanksgiving break. Watch this movie instantly behind the cut.

Watch Groundhog Day instantly on Netflix. This 1993 movie starring Bill Murray is a classic and addionally, a previous Freeze Frame on Gawker.TV.

Since most of us have some time off today, we're offering you some of our favorite Thanksgiving-related movies to watch instantly on Netflix. First up is the 1991 John Hughes movie, Dutch.

A movie with a giggle-worthy title and great cast that you've probably never heard of. Neither had we.

In your retro Thursday media column: Vice is having a Halloween party, laid-off journalists get an award, 'Netflix for magazines' is doomed to fail, and the Wall Street Journal is finally as prestigious as USA Today.

Wondering why that one Lost DVD never arrived? If you live in New England, blame the Netflix Nabber. Myles Weathers pinched more than 3,000 DVDs from the mail distribution center where he worked. He faces five years in prison.

• The New York Times Co. is selling its classical radio station WQXR to WNYC Radio and Univision as part of a "complex deal." One thing that isn't complex: The sale will pump a much-needed $45 million into the paper's coffers. [NYT]
• Is Rupert Murdoch planning to buy the Daily News from Mort Zuckerman? That's what some are suggesting, although Mort is denying it. [DailyFinance]
• McGraw-Hill shouldn't expect to make much from the sale of BusinessWeek. In fact, the company may be forced to give the magazine away. [FT]
• Neil Patrick Harris has signed on to host this year's Emmy Awards. [NYDN]
• Russell Brand will be the host of the MTV Video Music Awards. [Vulture]

Looks like Netflix might have a winner in their million dollar improve-our-movie-recommendations-software sweepstakes. And it's not some nerd toiling away with a protractor in his nerd room (nerd!). It's a whole bunch of nerds.

Last month we predicted ten companies and industries that would actually come out as recession winners (crazy, right?). It's time to check on how our predictions are doing! (Hint: f'in awesome):

Every Netflix subscriber who's ever added a Blu-ray disc to their queue — which triggers a setting for Blu-ray movies — is getting a $1 a month fee added to their bill for "access" to the high-def movie discs on the rent-by-mail service, even if they didn't intend to watch Blu-ray movies. Users can log into their account and remove the fee if they change the setting to stop all Blu-ray movies. So what this really is: A tax on laziness. [Silicon Alley Insider]

In a deal with premium cable channel Starz, Netflix will now be able to offer Walt Disney and Sony Pictures films to its streaming video service. (Netflix's films play in a browser or on your television through a set-top box made by Roku.) It's an important step — what's been holding back better content from many online sources aren't technological hurdles, but contractual hurdles. Starz and other premium cable channels have had rights to on-demand distribution locked up for some time. [Los Angeles Times]

It's about time the magazine world jacked Netflix's business plan. Maghound is Time Inc's new service that lets you, the consumer, choose which magazines you want to receive every month—with no hassles, and one low price! (Runs hand, model-like, over selection of 240 glossy magazines). Seriously, this may not save the magazine industry, but it's a good product for anyone who likes magazines. For these three reasons! 1. Gladiator Wars: Assuming Maghound takes off, it will offer a pure look at what consumers want to read (at least within the limited, non-Hearst pool of 240 magazines) when offered a broad array of choices. It could become the Billboard charts of magazine popularity. Plus you can watch magazines get dropped from subscriber lists immediately when people find out their content sucks! Now we just have to ask Time Inc. to make all this data public. 2. Price: Three titles for five bucks a month, five for eight bucks, seven for ten bucks. It's a deal and a half. If Maghound takes off it should cut into news stand sales, because it allows you to sample issues without paying the price of a subscription or the higher price of a news stand copy. 3. Expansion: The roster of magazines available now lacks big names like The Atlantic, The Economist, Esquire, and a bunch of others. But if Maghound proves to be a successful business, that list is bound to expand, because magazines—except very high-end titles—will see that it's in their economic interest to be included. So it's fair to expect more choice in the future. Or the thing will fold, but you only lost five bucks a month. So who cares? [Folio, Paid Content]

A tipster reports that Blockbuster is blast-emailing former customers to Total Access, its DVDs-by-mail Netflix knockoff. The offer: $25 if customers sign up again using PayPal. Odd, since Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes recently bragged about how the company was cutting off online advertising for its money-losing rent-by-mail business in favor of promoting its stores. Has he not talked to his marketing department recently?

Blockbuster has abandoned advertising TotalAccess, its also-ran DVD-by-mail competitor to Netflix. CEO Jim Keyes would like you to think his company's still a contender, though, and PaidContent's Rafat Ali is happy to oblige in a softball interview. Ali's far-from-knockout closer: "This is a hypothetical one. Would you be ever interested in buying Netflix?" We won't bother giving you Keyes's pat response about how he doesn't need Netflix. Instead, we'll just point you to PaidContent's handy financial summary included in the post. Blockbuster is worth $312 million. At $1.93 billion, Netflix is worth six times as much as Keyes's company.

"The company didn't ship DVDs to any of its customers Tuesday, and hadn't made shipments as of midday Thursday, Mr. Swasey said. Netflix made only a partial shipment from about half of its 55 nationwide distribution centers on Wednesday." [WSJ]