Hear 2.0
So I'm in a lovely hotel in Portland OR when I hear through the window a familiar movie score. That can't be, I thought to myself, it's the score to one of the original Universal Frankenstein movies. The fact that I knew this was obscure enough (made doubly so by my knowledge that it's also the score to the original Mumm (Read More)
: At WAY-FM, we've begun to think outside the concert experience a little more. Still not quite there yet with the right ideas. At least in my humble opinion.
Booman Tribune
Here's me: The reason is I just listened to the new Bad Lieutenant commentary on the movie's special edition rerelease and director Abel Ferrara sounds shockingly lucid. I don't mean to wish substance abuse on anyone, but anyone who knows Ferrara commentaries knows how amazing they can be when he's utterly dissociated (I'm (Read More)
blog maverick
Riddle me this Batman. If Redbox can offer DVD rentals from Kiosks for $1 per movie, then why can’t online download services offer movies for overnight rental for the same $1 ?The answer isnt quite so obvious. Redbox does two things very well.First, they offer consumers an incredibly easy way to rent the most popular movies (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
The extremely popular Cash for Clunkers program will live on. After the American public took advantage of the program for one billion dollars, the program was running out of money. On Thursday, Cash for Clunkers got an additional two billion dollars.Barack Obama, who released a written statement after the vote in Congress t (Read More)
New York Times
Ryan Reynolds will will play Hal Jordan, a k a Green Lantern in a live-action Warner Brothers film based on the DC Comics character, Variety reported.
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New York Times
The troubling leak of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” occurred at a time when media companies are working harder than ever to curtail digital piracy of content.
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TorrentFreak
Movie theaters nowadays are becoming more secure than some airports. Employees are equipped with night-vision goggles and instructed to closely monitor movie goers. Metal detectors are installed, the public has to hand over all recording devices and in some instances even their candy. Despite all these efforts, desperately (Read More)
CNN
The global economic slowdown is so severe that the worldwide economy will contract for the first time in 60 years, the International Monetary Fund says. (Read More)
Apple Section - Ars Technica
iTunes Store customers can now purchase and rent high-definition movies right from their computers, Apple announced today. HD "box office blockbusters" will be available for download for $19.99, and HD rentals of those new releases will be available for $4.99 within 30 days of release.Previously, Apple's HD re (Read More)
Engadget
For phone manufacturers, it seems like having a decent multimedia ecosystem tied to your devices is nearly as important to success these days as the platform you're running, and Samsung wants in on that action -- at least in Europe. The company will launch its Acetrax-powered Samsung Movies service in the UK and Germany fir (Read More)
Cinematical
Drag Me to HellSam Raimi has a new horror movie? How can this not be a good thing? Yes, he's been directing the adventures of Spider-Man in recent years (and really should have stopped before the third installment), but Raimi's first film was the horror classic The Evil Dead, and The Evil Dead 2 was one of the few sequels t (Read More)
Cinematical
If you're looking to kill a couple hours this weekend, might I suggest listening to the latest podcast over at Slashfilm. This week writer/director/actor (and geek expert) Kevin Smith came on as a guest to review Watchmen with podcast regulars David Chen, Peter Sciretta, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley. I happen to be a (Read More)
ComicBookMovie.com
Yesterday the wait was finally over, after months and months of patient waiting I got to see Watchmen in my local theater. Here's my opinion on Zack Snyder's interpretation!! I'm not going to spend more time on telling you guys the story, just going to compa (Read More)