Category Archives: Movies
Burt Wonderstone
Burt Wonderstone is an upcoming film featuring Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi and Steve Carell about the two longtime stage partners breakup and the arrival of a new “hip” street magician. Sneak peaks look fantastic. via imdb
Netflix for UK
Out of nowhere, Netflix just landed in the UK, rivalling longtime assholes Lovefilm. I’ve just signed up for their 30 day trial, and at £6/month for all you want TV/Movies (from their not-so-amazing but okaaaay library) it beats Lovefilm’s shitty … Continue reading
Mac Bluray Ripper Pro (for Mac)
I paid about £20 for this great software about a year ago to backup my Bluray discs to HDD so I can watch them anytime without having to take them out of their jackets and fast forward the ads.
Watch US TV via Firefox
Penx just showed me a neat plugin hack for FireFox to enable watching content from the United States. Download Modify Headers from the Firefox Addons repository, install, restart browser.
Theatre aficionados
I went to see a play the other day, haven’t been to one in ages, and it was fantastic. The play I saw was the old Russian comedy, The Government Inspector. A story about a small village panicking about the … Continue reading
Copyright protection ‘Cinavia’ on PS3
Sounds like Sony has implemented their Copyright control on movies encoded with Cinavia technology. Most of the movies I watch are downloaded from the web. Most of them are available to me on Lovefilm, a monthly service I pay for … Continue reading
Online bittorrent service hides your warez
New service put.io is a commercial service which has allows you to download torrents using their servers, store the files and then later download them to your computer, or stream them to your iPhone, without a trace. Obviously you must … Continue reading
RipIt vs Handbrake
RipIt is a great small app to quickly rip a DVD to your harddrive. However, it uses ffmpegx which can only utilise two cores. Handbrake goes nuts. It uses as many cores available and can rip discs from DVD to … Continue reading
Chris Morris' Jihardist movie "Four Lions"
Chris Morris is a satirist who created a mok-news show called Brass-Eye has created a new movie called “Four Lions” about the daily goings of Islamic terrorists. It looks amazing and is being screened at the Sundance festival.
Free PlayStation 3 media server
If you own a PS3 and have trouble finding a decent media server, check out ps3MediaServer http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/ Apparently it’s supposed to be easy to setup and get running. I’m not entirely sure how it works, but look forward to having … Continue reading