Martin Scorsese’s The Departed is terrific. I haven’t had my heart pounding that much during a movie for many years now. So go watch it. I am going to go rewind the DVD and watch it again. Just brilliant.
Just got an email from MovieStar and they write:
Always trying to be innovative, before summer we hope to offer Movies and TV show to users as digital downloads, so you decide to get the DVD, or download to the PC.
Interesting. Could we soon finally have a usable, legal movie download service in Ireland?
Perusing the Oscar nominations list I realised how living in Waterford has pole-axed my cinema habits. Back home in Cape Town I had the choice of 7 or so cinema complexes all of which were good quality. Here in Waterford we have one dingy complex that I have been to two times too many. I saw more films at the cinema during my months holiday to South Africa than I have seen in over a year here in Waterford. Supposedly Dungarvan has a nice cinema but driving 45 minutes for a cinema is crazy.
Waiting for DVD is now my habit.
Of the Oscar list I have seen just 8; The Devil Wears Prada (good), Cars (entertaining), Pan’s Labyrinth (brilliant), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (entertaining), Children of Men (very good), United 93 (good), An Inconvenient Truth (very good) and Superman Returns (disappointing.)
I have written a rather long post on what is happening with Colib. It goes into my thoughts on attention trust data, S3, federation, microformats and a host of other bits. Hopefully it sparks something.
Thanks to Coudal I won a Summer Reading List poster. Nicely done and the list itself is worthwhile going through. Along with the poster came a DVD featuring some short movies by Coudal and Veer which are pretty cool. Mainly though it highlights the very cool jewel cases that Coudal makes, called Jewelboxing. These are quality CD/DVD cases folks. Really solid, nicely designed and slick. I’d be very happy putting out my product in cases like this.
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