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 …
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.
The Washington Post Capsule reviews of the next week's video releases, on DVD and Blu-ray, including special features: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part I” (PG-13, 123 minutes, Lionsgate): As the first part of the last installment of the
With director George Millerâs insane-looking fourth Mad Max movie, the Tom Hardy-starring Fury Road , due out this May, what better time to rewatch the first film in the series?
With director George MIllerâs insane-looking fourth Mad Max movie, the Tom Hardy-starring Fury Road, due out this May, what better time to rewatch the first film in the series? âNo better time!â say the folks at Scream Factory. The genre imprint is putting out a collectorâs edition Blu-ray of 1979â…
Rent It The Movie: Albert Pyun is best known for directing action and sci-fi pictures like Cyborg with Jean Claude Van Damme but in 1986 he made Dangerously Close , a strange tale of youth gone wild. It's a strange film to be sure, one that seems far more concerned with technique and style than with narrative substance, but it's an interesting film to revisit almost thirty years after it debuted …