Blu-ray disks are harbouring two dangerous exploits that would allow an attacker to potentially launch executables remotely using a disk drive. First reported by The Register, hacker Stephen Tomkinson found two separate vulnerabilities in Blu-ray disks involve the infamous piece of bloatware CyberLink PowerDVD and a rooting process that utilises an external USB. The first one takes advantage of …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The strange, tragic relationship between wrestling and John du Pont Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Mark Ruffalo, Bennett Miller Likes: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, wrestling (not the pro kind) Dislikes: Many biopics Hates: When money protects the guilty The Movie Despite getting something of a late start on his directing career, Bennett Miller has been in no rush …
Rent It The Movie: Are there many directors like Rob Reiner in film history who produced a string of classics during the first half of his career, only to spend the second half pumping out one disaster after the other?
DVD Talk Collector Series The Connection (1961) is a historically significant if very stagey and virtually unreleased feature directed and edited by independent experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). An adaptation of Jack Gelber's 1959 Obie-winning play, the entire story takes place in a grungy New York loft – there are no exteriors and no other sets – where junkies, including jazz …
Movies a distraction for remote plunder British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks.…
A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency.
Review by John Delia Academy Award winner for best Animated film Big Hero 6 has been released on Blu-ray in a Collector’s Edition combo
Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …
Rent It I'll say this, Guy Who Designed the Artwork for Dark Haul : you did your job, and you did it well. It's probably been twenty years since I last picked up a new release just because I was entranced by its cover art.
Things are simmering in the Aerosmith camp, with the announcement of a cross-country summer tour expected any day now.