The South By Southwest Film Festival kicks off tonight in Austin, and from zombie documentaries to the return of Veronica Mars, we’ve got a dozen movies on our gotta-see list. Â Â Â Â
One day, your Facebook photos will sit in the hands of robots. Behind the scenes at Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant, Facebook engineers have already built these robots, and one of them was on display last week in downtown San Jose, at a gathering of companies dedicated to exploring new technology inside the massive data centers … Â Â Â Â
Movies are totally wasting POV cams! Camera angle is supposed to help tell the story, not get in the way. Â Â Â Â
Sharing a wonderful film or television series with friends is a great way to spark a conversation. Netflix Social brings that sharing to Facebook, eliminating one more reason to talk face-to-face with friends.
If you never got addicted to Battlestar Galactica, here’s your chance: Wired is giving away a complete Blu-ray box set of the rebooted sci-fi show and its prequel Blood & Chrome .
To mark the release of Robot & Frank on DVD, we’re giving away a copy of the film along with a programmable robot!
And thus 2012 ends, and thus studios chum the waters with Oscar-bait. Some of the recent releases have been great ( Zero Dark Thirty ), some weird ( Holy Motors ), some are for your parents ( Lincoln ), and some are just plain sadistic ( Les Misérables ). But while 2012’s been full of solid movies— The Master , Argo , Magic Mike , Looper —there are always too many that are forgotten too quickly.
Films about photographers suffer from an inherent problem: Depicting depiction jars the viewer’s sense of disbelief and the self-aware results can seem canned, or even campy.
Copyright regulators rejected on Thursday proposals to make it lawful for people to copy DVDs for personal use or to jailbreak videogame consoles to run custom software.
“So bad it’s good.†That’s how people are describing Miami Connection , an unreleased 35-mm action film from 1987 that I recently purchased on eBay for $50, and which is now getting critical raves and a bona fide theatrical release.