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The Movie Blog reminds us "never to trust those pirates." The Film Experience is having a blog-a-thon to honor film's best action heroines. Give Me My Remote picks a cast of newcomers for "Grey's Anatomy." Popwatch shares the ways in which they bond with Dad through entertainment, for example, one can count on Dad walking in exactly during the sex scenes. Want to talk about last night's season Read more
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. Also releasing this week is Nicolas Cage's Ghost Rider, which inexplicably took the No. 1 spot at the box office when it first came out. Breach There are more interesting and complex CIA thrillers than this Read more
It's Fri-day, you're at your job (or not) and there ain't much to say. Ryan's new movie Breach may not have done so hot at the box office, but he's looking pretty hot while enjoying some beverages with a friend. Perhaps that's because he's wearing a hat when it's clearly warm where he is! Dumb joke zing! Sigh. View 2 Photos › image image Splash Read more
Perhaps I've watched too much "Alias" and "24," because it turns out I expect espionage/government agency stories to be fast-paced, entertaining, and suspenseful to the point of biting off my fingertips. If one goes into Breach expecting these qualities, one will not find them. The real-life story on which the film is based is intriguing, but the film itself is not. If the intention was to make Read more
Ryan's career obviously hasn't been hurt by any of the negative press surrounding his split with Reese. Last night he went on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his new film, Breach that also stars Oscar winner Chris Cooper. Breach is a true story about a young FBI agent trying to bring down his boss for selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Ryan may have lost points with us over the past few months Read more
Breach opens this Friday, Feb. 16, and it looks like Ryan Phillippe is mumbling his way through yet another movie he doesn't deserve to be in. In this true-life tale that — like the Enron saga — just begs to be made into a movie, Phillippe plays young Eric O'Neill, an FBI agent hopeful assigned to work with renowned operative Robert Hanssen, played by the excellent Chris Cooper. It turns Read more
Data has been breached at a payments processing firm and the personal information of up to 10 million users can potentially be compromised, says security blog Krebs on Security. Apparently, the scale of the breach is "massive" and major credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard have been alerting their customers about this development and to reassure them that the actual Visa and Read more
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This week, the White House announced a framework to protect consumer privacy in the digital age of smartphones and constant Internet access. The voluntary corporate guidelines called the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights "give consumers clear guidance on what they should expect from those who handle their personal information, and set expectations for companies that use personal data." For now, Read more
