Bye Bye MP3 Archive. Your music will no longer be yours
The website, AppleInsider, has an interesting piece about the giant data center that Apple has been building in North Carolina over the last few years. Apparently, this giant data center is going to be providing Cloud-based storage for iTunes and MobileMe. The billion dollar facility will store all of your media, so that you don’t […]
2010: The year Hollywood made a lot of money
Some startling news out of Hollywood today. Despite the very much noticed drop in total Movie Box Office ticket sales (down 5% to 1.34 Billion tickets sold in 2010, from 2009) The total worldwide Box Office sales set a new record of 31.8 Billion dollars. This is an 8% growth over last years box office […]
Bad idea of the day: Redbox to compete with Netflix in streaming movies
Recently Redbox President Mitch Lowe, told a group of ‘market analyists’ that they will be bringing a monthly-subscription based service to the users. The monthly subscription will allow users to stream Redbox video’s directly to their web-enabled devices. The improtant thing to note here, is the word devices. Service is expected to be offered on iPhones, PCs […]
Del Toro + Jim Henson Company = Pinocchio. My dreams = nightmares.
There are some things that just penetrate my dreams, and instantly spark nightmares. Pan, in Pan’s Labyrinth was one of those things. Also, the Cthulhu-esq monster in Hellboy. Well, it looks like I will be able to add another notch to the nightmare post. Guillermo del Toro has teamed up with the Jim Henson Company, […]
Live-action Akira remake gets a known screen writer
Perhaps it’s good news, but most likely it isn’t. Warner Brothers has found a screen writer to take on the awesome responsibilities of turning Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyber-punk manga series ‘Akira’ (published between 1982 – 1990) and adapted into one of the most iconic Anime films ever made, in 1988). Steve Kloves, is probably most known […]
LRE #29: Mystery Team
Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: Mystery Team Release Year: 2009 Staring: Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes What would happen if Encyclopedia Brown refused to grow up? Or Nancy Drew? Or the Hardy Boys? When high school reaches its end, the Mystery Team are forced to make some hard choices about their lives.
LRE #28: Salt
Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: Salt Release Year: 2010 Staring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski When a CIA agent is accused of being a super-duper-secret mole for the Russians, instead of dealing with it and trying to clear her name, she goes on an outlandish flight proving her guilt.
LRE #27: Red
Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: Red Release Year: 2010 Staring: Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich A second chance at love comes to former covert agent Frank Moses. But when things start to go right, they also start going very very wrong.
LRE #26: The Informant!
Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: The Informant! Release Year: 2009 Staring: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula When a corporate exec just can’t stand the corruption he encounters inside of his company, he takes it upon himself to get the FBI involved in a major price fixing investigation. But, when all the pieces start […]
Tech Rant: Bye Bye Mozy.
Backups. We all know what they are, and yet only a few of us really use them. I was among those who really didn’t care. This is ironic, since my entire business career revolves around the importance of backups. And while it has been important for me to identify the necessity of backups for others; […]
LRE #25: The Other Guys
Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: The Other Guys Release Year: 2010 Staring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes New York City cops are stuck in the shadows, behind two legendary detectives; one by choice, one by force. But when something happens to the the star detectives, it’s left to the […]
iPad2 to go with QXGA resolution?
Some ‘company insiders’ are spreading the rumors that the iPad2 will skip full 1080P resolution (1920×1080) and go to some obscure resolution of 2048 by 1536 (otherwise known as QXGA). My gut tells me this will be wrong. Apple has no reason to skip the ‘full 1080p’ moniker. Considering that a much larger portion of […]
LRE #24: Inception
Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: Inception Release Year: 2010 Staring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe That’s right. It HAS taken me this long to watch Inception. And OH MY GOD, WHY DID I WAIT??!?
I’m Not Dead Yet! Stargate Universe may not be gone completely
There are new rumors floating around the ‘verse, that Stargate Universe may not have given up its last dying breath. Various rumors state that there may infact be a Plan-B, just in case SyFy pulls funding for the show. And as we stand with SyFy having pulled the funding, we are left only to speculate […]
Spiderman, Spiderman, Here he is, that Spiderman.
You’re looking at the first images released by Sony, of Andrew Garfield. Andrew is the lucky dog who got cast as Peter Parker in the upcoming Spiderman reboot. The film won’t be released until mid July, but is supposed to revolve around a young Peter Parker gaining his powers and responsibility. Essentially, the same story […]