One of our QuickStopEntertainment colleagues has a new job.

If you are a fan of Kim Morgan‘s work from her old MoviePoopShoot columns (Morgan hasn’t yet been active at Quickstop) or from her own blog Sunset Gun, or even from her news blog at MSN Movie Filter, you’ll want to follow her work over at ClickStar, where she is also a writer and editorial consultant.

What the hell is ClickStar, you may wonder? Your wonderment is not surprising. ClickStar is the multimillion dollar investment in home movie downloading that no one has ever heard of. Launched last month in a cloud of silence, the service bears the faces of Morgan Freeman, Peter Bogdanovich, and Danny DeVito, who make the site unique by offering commentary in the form of video interviews before you watch the movie (I’m guessing about this because, as a Mac user, I am banned from ClickStar).The company is backed by Revelations Entertainment, which Freeman co-owns, and Intel Corporation, and has agreements with Sony, Universal, and Warner to offer downloads of portions of their catalogs. ClickStar also boasts the ambition to allow downloads of new movies, such as the Freeman starer 10 Items or Less, which was released on ClickStar and in the theaters in an experiment similar to Mark Cuban’s burst Bubble.

ClickStar appears to be a great idea that has been terribly implemented and marketed. Starting with its name, ClickStar, one of those nonsense internet techno names that mean nothing (especially since you don’t actually click on anything with a tuner as the illustration on the home page suggests), all the way up to its goulash of conflicting website names, and its virtual anonymity among pundits. But things got worse when it went live. The site’s user forum, which Mac users can access in a limited fashion, contains complaints by eager customers who can’t figure out how to download movies (Steve Jobs would never have allowed the site to be this complex) or who are overcharged while getting nothing. Click? Yeah, right.

One bright spot in the hash is Morgan’s ClickStar blog. So far Morgan has written a general introduction to herself and subsequent posts on Bringing Up Baby and films based on plays by Tennessee Williams. Morgan is enthusiastic and movie mad and informed, and like the late Pauline Kael is very good on stars and star personae. The site has several bloggers, but Morgan’s blog thus far is the best. Morgan makes you eager to see the movies she talks about (which are then downloadable from ClickStar), unlike one of the other bloggers, who spends most of her webspace ridiculously listing movies she hasn’t seen, rather than celebrating ones that she has, certainly missing the whole point of the blog.

You may not be able to figure out how to actually purchase any ClickStar movies yet, but you can at least enjoy Morgan’s enthusiastic film criticism.

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