In order to discuss why seed boxes will most likely become much more popular in the coming months, it’s necessary to fill in a little background.
In the world of file sharing, especially when it comes to private trackers like Cinemageddon, users are required to maintain a ratio hovering around 1:1. In other words, you must […]
Jun
14
Why Seed Boxes Are Destined To Become More Popular
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
Jun
13
American ISPs to Launch Massive Copyright Spying Scheme on July 12
≡ Category: News | ≅ Leave a Comment
I happened across an article that I thought might be of interest to my readers, so I’m reprinting it:
American ISPs to Launch Massive Copyright Spying Scheme on July 12
By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, 15 March, 2012
If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for […]
Apr
22
The Greatest Action Scenes of All Time
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
I don’t why, but I got to thinking about the action scenes that have really floored me. If I missed any, add them in the comment section. Here they are in no particular order:
The Wild Bunch - The Railroad Detective’s Ambush
This whole sequence is just masterful. The way director Sam Peckinpah uses slow motion, the […]
Feb
24
The Difference Between Trash And Garbage
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
Lately, I’ve seen an lot of really terrible films.
These days, with all the fan sites out there, it is possible to see many, many obscure genre releases from bygone years from Italian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, and Japanese cinema.
Back when I first became a fan of these film scenes, we didn’t have this kind of […]
Oct
3
Reel Life vs Real Life
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
My observation has been that there is a funhouse mirror relationship to reality in films.
For example, when viewing American films, people native to Asian cultures often notice that people often get up from bed and go to work without taking a shower, which would almost never happen in their culture. They think that all Americans […]
Jul
11
Forum Rules
≡ Category: News | ≅ Leave a Comment
Actually, this title of this post is misleading. There is only one forum rule.
Anyone who posts anything that does not have to do with film (such as Viagra or cell phones) will have his or her account deleted and all of his or her posts.
Duh.
If you found this post helpful, share it by […]
Jun
2
Google +1 Button - If You Like What You See…
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
Hello, faithful readers.
You might have noticed a funny looking red, blue, green and yellow box on my posts, right above the icons/movie poster that usually links to Amazon.com (except when Amazon.com doesn’t carry the movie — shame on them).
Well, this is the latest doodad from Google. Here’s the way it works. +1 is shorthand […]
Mar
16
Does File Sharing Negatively Impact Content Creation?
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
Just read an article called File-Sharing and Copyright by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. Interesting.
While the article seems biased in favor of file sharing, it stops short of claiming that file sharing doesn’t have an impact on content creation.
I quote:
As our survey indicates, the empirical evidence on sales displacement is mixed.
While some studies find evidence […]
Jan
29
Why Subtitles Rule
≡ Category: News, Talkin' Trash | ≅ Leave a Comment
I just saw an indisputably good movie, The Great Silence AKA Il Grande Silenzio, but for all I know, it could well have been truly great. Why the uncertainty? Because the only version I could get hold of was dubbed.
The Great Silence is a spaghetti western, so obviously it was originally in Italian.
There are many […]
Dec
25
Repo Men Takes On the Privatization of Health Care
≡ Category: News | ≅ Leave a Comment
If there’s anything that gets me excited, it’s when a clever writer finds a way of touching on contemporary issues of great importance through a science fiction premise. That’s what Eric Garcia has accomplished with his novel The Repossession Mambo, which has been made into the film Repo Men, coming to a theater near you.
The […]
