Ebert’s “Great Movies” App Now Available Caleb Hamilton, June 15, 2011 Roger Ebert, a famed film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, has been known in the past for his (at times) harsh reviews, television shows and more recently his battle with Thyroid Cancer which has left him unable to speak. In 1996, Ebert began compiling a list of what he felt were the most important films of all time. The list and the accompanying reviews has includes over 300 movies. Roger Ebert’s Great Movies is now available as an app on iOS devices. Read on for more. The app can be purchased in the Apple App Store for $0.99 and added to all of your iOS mobile devices, though it is not optimized for the larger screen of the iPad. The app includes all of the aforementioned over 300 movies and reviews with stills from the film. All of the films on the list have a link so that they can be added to your Netflix queue or your shopping cart on Amazon.You can also create lists of your own of films that you want to see and those you have seen. The app also allows you to share reviews with Facebook and Twitter and via e-mail.Will you download the app? Let us know in the comments! Social Networks App StoreAppleiTunesRoger Ebert
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Watch a Live Webcast for “The Social Network” On MySpace September 25, 2010September 26, 2010Talk about a perfect idea. Columbia Pictures is having a live webcast on Sunday, September 26th (tomorrow!) for The Social Network, and it will be on the film’s MySpace page. This is quite the jab at Facebook, as the film is a dramatization of the sordid rise of the 2nd… Read More
The 1701 Have Been Chosen in “Star Trek Into Darkness” Viral; New Trailer Debuting Tomorrow May 1, 2013May 1, 2013Last week, we reported that the long-dormant Star Trek Into Darkness viral site AreYouThe1701.com went live with a social media contest using Instagram and Vine. Paramount gave fans a week to enter the contest, where they had to take a picture or video inspired by Star Trek or “the future.”… Read More