Comment

I had to stop this trailer after 10 seconds as it was telling me the entire plot of film.

5 days ago on Watch this: New 'Elysium' trailer reveals a dark future run by machines 2 recommends

Comment

Is there such a thing as a spoiler with Hollywood stuff?

Spoiler alert – the good guys win.

6 days ago on Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Hollywood is largely a lost cause for me at this point. The so called ‘event movies’, are total non-events for me. I haven’t been interested in super heroes since I was 8 years old.

I find myself spending my time in front of the TV watching high-end TV shows, such as House of Cards and Mad Men, and when it comes to film, I watch indies and non-English language stuff. French cinema is consistently excellent, as is Korean and Spanish cinema.

6 days ago on Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry 1 reply

Comment

I was hoping there would be a SKU of the X1 without kinect. Motion control doesn’t work in gaming, and even if it did, I have zero interest in it. Therefore, why should I pay for a big lump of plastic which I will never use?

8 days ago on Sony prices PlayStation 4 at $399, ships this holiday season in US and Europe

Comment

Visually it’s street ahead of the old iOS, but other than a new look, it looks basically unchanged.

Why is the springboard still just a big pile of lifeless icons?

8 days ago on The design of iOS 7: simply confusing

Comment

All this talk about updates to Metro. I installed a boot to desktop and start menu replacement called Pokki when I got Win 8, so never, ever see Metro.

I unfortunately still see the retarded charms bar though, which I keep triggering by accident on my Wacom tablet

19 days ago on Windows 8.1 preview: many small tweaks make for a significant update 2 replies 1 recommend

Comment

Roku launched in the UK about a year and half ago. Since then they’ve barely touched the platform and have very few UK specific streaming services, crucially missing Amazon’s LoveFilm, amongst many others, despite promises from Roku UK to the contrary.

The platform is now dead here, and the blame for that lies entirely at Roku’s feet.

20 days ago on Roku raises $60 million investment as it tries to keep up in the war for your TV

Comment

Fishing bombs are massively destructive to the sea floor, which is why most countries have banned them. If this idiot had fished in a sustainable, intelligent, and logical way, he would still have his hands.

20 days ago on Amputee in rural China builds bionic arms from steel and pulleys 2 replies

Comment

Good news, and news which means I’ll be able to keep using Waze, as opposed to boycotting it as I do all things Facebook touches.

20 days ago on Facebook's talks to acquire Waze reportedly end 1 reply 4 recommends

Comment

ATV could be so much more than it currently is, simply by giving it an app store and publishing an SDK. Then it would go from a tiny number of US only apps, to hundreds of thousands available to the whole world.

21 days ago on Apple TV sales surpass 13 million, 'about half' sold this year 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Trailers are obnoxious in the extreme, and they’re getting worse. They’re designed to mis-sell, spoil plotlines, and basically dumb everything down to it’s lowest possible level.

Ads in cinemas are the final nail in the coffin, and why I very, very rarely go there.

All I need to gauge if I’m interested in a film is to know who’s directing it, and a very, very brief plot outline. (by brief, I mean something along the lines of ’ this film is a family drama’).

21 days ago on Theater owners reportedly pushing for shorter movie trailers to improve audience experience 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Who actually still teaches kids imperial measurements? The USA and…. anyone else?

We all moved on decades ago Vergers, time to go metric with the rest of us.

26 days ago on Construction on world's tallest building to begin next month and end this year 2 replies 4 recommends

Comment

The hardware isn’t quite as similar as it may first appear. The PS4 has a much quicker GPU, and vastly quicker RAM. It’s a significantly more powerful machine.

28 days ago on Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: the next console war pits living room against cloud 4 replies 3 recommends

Comment

They showed the console, they showed a LOT of TV stuff, and a lot of sports stuff, and some kinect.

What they didn’t show much of, were GAMES.

Unless E3 radically changes things, Sony will be the place to go for gamers.

28 days ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 15 replies 66 recommends