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Portable Video Player Comparison Matrix
So I was in the market recently for a portable media player that I wanted to not only use for music but primarily for playing video when I was bored at the gym or traveling on a long domestic flight. After a lot of searching I eventually found a pretty nice Wikipedia page that has [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Mediacenter Plug-in
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anthony Park has released on open beta plug-in, that allows you to utilize your Netflix “Watch it Now” functionality on your Media Center PC. The plug-in is still in beta and still a little buggy, but to be able to cruise movies, shows and concerts with your remote on watch a movie on demand is [...]
Continue reading...Toshiba Officially Exits HD-DVD
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Chris Hunkele sends in news that Toshiba has officially stepped out of the HD-DVD race and will stop producing disks and devices based on the standard. It’s over folks… officially.
Continue reading...Wal-Mart Going Blu-ray Exclusive by June
Friday, February 15, 2008
Ted Regulski, AKA Ted “The Ted Man” Regulski, sent in news that Susan Chronister from Wal-Mart has confirmed that the employee-raping giant will go Blu-ray exclusive by June with no plans to continue stocking HD-DVD media or players. So everyone that bought a $99 HD-DVD… yea… that freaking sucks
Continue reading...Best Buy Recommends Blu-ray over HD-DVD
Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje, staying on-top of the death of HD-DVD, sent in news that Best Buy has taken the official stance of recommending Blu-ray to customers over HD-DVD when asked about which HD format to support. We already covered all the major studios (except Universal) moving over to Blu-ray, and Netflix announcing Blu-ray only support (Blockbuster announced [...]
Continue reading...Freddy’s Back: A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
As a huge fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, but sad to never see it revived fully but just somewhat half-attempts through the years, I was thrilled and surprised to see that Michael Bay is taking the lead on this for a remake in 2010 of the movie and the main character that [...]
Continue reading...Guillermo Del Toro to Direct The Hobbit (2 Movies)
Friday, February 1, 2008
Guardian Unlimited reports that Guillermo Del Toro (Glade 2, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) will take charge and direct the next two The Hobbit movies (in place of Peter Jackson) while Jackson is executive producer on the projects. While I thought Pan’s Labyrinth was an curious and dark movie, I wasn’t trying to dry-hump it like everyone else [...]
Continue reading...Rambo Movie Review
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Summary [8.5 out of 10] Rambo is a visceral, serious, action packed movie about the rescue of Christian missionaries from war-torn Burma and it’s military. Stallone’s execution of this movie is so raw and completely devoid of cheesy lines or “typical action hero” antics that you can’t help but walk out of the theater with respect for [...]
Continue reading...Shoot ‘Em Up Movie Review
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Summary [7 out of 10] Shoot ‘Em Up is a ridiculously paced, non-stop action movie that is a collection of surprisingly cohesive scenes that provide excuses for the director to realize constant over-the-top action sequences that are a blast to watch ending with a great cheesy one-liner from the main character. Setup If you plan on watching this [...]
Continue reading...Resident Evil: Extinction Movie Review
Monday, January 28, 2008
Summary [4 out of 10] Resident Evil: Extinction is a terrible, terrible movie. For fans of the games or even of the 1st or 2nd movie, just turn and walk the other way. Hidden deep in this script are literally 2 good ideas that get 3 mins of screen time, while the remaining 87 mins is garbage [...]
Continue reading...Cloverfield Sequel will Likely Happen
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
FEAR.net had an interview with Cloverfield’s new golden-boy director, Matt Reeves, in which they asked about a sequel. Reeves commented on how much fun they had with the movie and as far as a sequel was concerned: We’ll just have to see, we’ll have to see whether or not anyone would even want a sequel. We’ll [...]
Continue reading...Cloverfield Backstory, Mythos, Lore
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
NOTE: For those of you that don’t watch Lost and can’t understand what all the craze behind Cloverfield’s story is (why not just watch the movie and be done with it?) it’s because when J.J. Abrams creates a story, he sort of creates a fake world around the story (of fake companies, stories, backstory, etc.) [...]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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