virtualbri

virtualbri, 3 days ago to StarTrek

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-movie-franchise-reboot-paramount-1235904930/

Hrm.

Interesting choice. I can think of a few other people who have some Trek experience that might be able to produce a Star Trek film, but ok.

I'm sure up at the top there's totally different chiefs in charge of TV versus film and they don't interact with each other at all and don't want to. It's a bummer.

#StarTrek

virtualbri, 3 days ago to ai

Y'all see that these AI generated "movies", "videos" and "commercials" are straight up garbage, right?

#VFX #AI

4gottenfuturist, 4 days ago to random

Jenny Nicholson's Star Wars Hotel video is brilliant. So wonderfully sums up everything wrong with Disney's way of doing things.

arstechnica, 4 days ago to random

Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

virtualbri, 4 days ago to Finance

It's fun to blame Red Lobster going down because of all you can eat shrimp, but no one really emphasizes this bit:

"A private equity firm bought the chain ten years ago from Darden Restaurants.... The firm, Golden Gate Capital, funded the deal partly by selling Red Lobster's real estate.

That meant the chain had to start paying rent. That's now a major financial factor in Red Lobster's bankruptcy filing"

VC again leaving a trail of destruction behind them

#Capitalism #Finance

virtualbri, 4 days ago to movies

Oh, noe, two branches of the same hydra have different ovation counts for the same Cannes film. And drastically different.

Someone's gotta true the count! We demand the truth! 😛

#Cannes #Movies

virtualbri, 4 days ago to random

The world's a better place because Trent Reznor makes music in it.

jvschrag, 5 days ago to random

Currently experiencing the Canadian version of the ‘marshmallow test’ — seeing which of my neighbours can’t wait until Victoria Day tomorrow to set off their fireworks and are instead setting the off randomly throughout the weekend.

virtualbri, 5 days ago to movies

Ah it's Cannes season, where Variety tracks the lengths of each standing ovation, because that's a barometer of...something I guess.

Will the 11 minute ovation for feminist body horror movie "The Substance" be beat? Who knows? Who cares?

What poor reporters have to actually time the ovations and report back? is it the one filing the story? An intern? Who decided that was worthy of the story? That's what I want to know.

#Movies #Cannes

StillIRise1963, 5 days ago to random

I think Charles has the best portrait of any “royal” in history. Bloody red captures his family’s reign.

virtualbri, 5 days ago to poetry

I didn't know Len Pennie's book "Poyums" finally came out, but I've enjoyed her Scots word of the day and her poetry for ages, so it's nice to finally give a bit back.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-poyums/dp/B0BZQ6F37W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Of course I had to hear the audiobook as well, because her performances actually make me remember what poetry's supposed to do. (I'd see if you can buy it from a better source than...ahem, this link.)

#Scots #Poetry

virtualbri, 5 days ago to scifi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRAVbH3qBU

Here's a good one: Phantom Menace Theatrical versus 4K release.

Does the digital noise reduction hammer the details, especially in faces? Is the new color shift to blue better? You decide

#SciFi #StarWars #Movies #Restorations

virtualbri, 5 days ago to random

What a lovely idea.

virtualbri, 5 days ago to random

I think it would be a public service to go to all the "little libraries" in front of houses in my neighborhood to remove the Malcolm Gladwell books and pulp them instead.