By Todd Haselton |
Blockbuster’s On Demand movie service has been available for Android, OS X and Windows for quite some time now, but iOS users can finally join in on the fun. The company officially released its iOS application on Thursday, which will no doubt compete with rental…
By Adriana Lee |
Somewhere in Los Gatos, CA, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must be doing a happy dance. According to Netflix’s first quarter results, the company not only beat Wall Street estimates, but in terms of subscribership, it has breached the 29 million mark in the U.S. Do…
By Adriana Lee |
When Funny or Die announced it was making a Steve Jobs biopic spoof and casting Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” hipster from the old Apple commercials, we were bracing ourselves. Would it be smart? Silly? A little uncomfortable? Totally hilarious? Hard to tell from…
By Adriana Lee |
Vine may be only be two months old, at least as a Twitter offering, but it’s already playing with the big boys. And the boy it’s playing with has adamantium claws. Director James Mangold let loose the first lightning-fast peep at the new Marvel superhero…
By Adriana Lee |
Move over, Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin. There’s a new Steve Jobs biopic coming to town. (Well, sorta.) And there’s no fiddling with facts this time around. In fact, aside from there being an actual man named Steve Jobs who ran Apple, there are few…
By Adriana Lee |
Imagine minding your own business, waiting for an elevator to open up, when the doors pull back to reveal a strange man choking a victim. What would you do? Scream? Run? Call 911? All of those reactions are very natural, judging by what happened when…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re a fan of classic movies, arthouse or foreign films, and obscure flicks, you may not want to make any plans for the next couple of days. The Criterion Collection is making hundreds of its titles available for free streaming on Hulu this weekend.…
By Adriana Lee |
Were you a fan of Wedding Crashers? Well, how about Google Crashers? Apparently Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are teaming up again to play middle-age workers at the Mountain View campus in a new movie, The Internship. The twist? They’re about as tech-savvy as the…
By Adriana Lee |
Actors sometimes do some crazy things to prepare for their roles on the big screen. Some so thoroughly inhabit their characters, they can’t (or won’t) shut them off even off-camera, like Daniel Day-Lewis. Others pork up or whittle way, way down, like Bridget Jones’s Diary’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Software security pioneer John McAfee, 67, has dominated computer screens around the world, and now he’ll be gracing a different screen altogether as the subject of a new Warner Bros movie. But this is no ordinary biopic. Sure, the tech exec is a recovering cocaine addict…
By Adriana Lee |
“jOBS,” the much-anticipated film starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, finally got a release period: Open Road Films and Five Star Feature films has announced that the biopic will be hitting screens this April, after it closes out the Sundance Film Festival this month. Chronicling…
By Todd Haselton |
Walt Disney Co and Netflix have reportedly reached a deal in which Disney will provide the streaming TV and movie service with its movies. Disney, as Reuters notes, typically only provides its content to premium cable channels. Netflix customers will be able to watch Disney movies…
By Killian Bell |
Research in Motion has announced some changes to its BlackBerry App World service, including a new name. From January, just before the Canadian company launches BlackBerry 10, it will simply be known as ‘BlackBerry World’. The new name paves the way for not just apps,…
By Adriana Lee |
After getting a fill of relatives this weekend, you may yearn for a break. While four whole days off from work or school may be a gift, who wants to squander that time dodging kooky Aunt Edna? It’s not too late — you can make the…
