| Sony confirms LoveFilm is coming to PlayStation 3 PS3 owners will soon be able to stream movies from LoveFilm's subscription service via their console.Sony has finally confirmed that the movie subscription service LoveFilm is coming to PS3. Subscribers to LoveFilm will be able to select from thousands of titles, and then stream films directly to their TVs, through their PlayStation 3 console. Subscriptions start at ﾂ｣5.99 a month, and are already available via the latest Samsung and Sony Bravia internet connected TVs as well as Sony Blu-ray players. The LoveFilm option will appear on the console's XMB menu system, and users will be able to browse various catagories including 'Pick of the Week', 'Most Watched' and 'Highest Rated', as well as searching the entire database by title, actor and genre. Apparently PS3 owners who aren't currently LoveFilm subscribers will be offered incentives, including free trials, to sign up.This is the latest in a series of deals designed to expand the PS3's entertainment offerings beyond games. Sony has its own Video Store service, but the BBC iPlayer is also viewable through the console, and users will also 'soon' be able to access the indie-themed movie library, Mubi. Microsoft offers similar video-on-demand services via the Xbox 360.The LoveFilm service will be launching on PS3 sometime in November. GamesSonyPlayStationPS3Keith Stuartguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Rolling Stone Richards 'targeted by the government' Keith Richards claimed he was 窶徼argeted by the British government窶 when he was famously put on trial for drugs offences in 1967. feeds.breakingnews.ie |
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Easy A 窶 review The regular flow of indifferent high-school comedies has been occasionally enlivened in recent years by a reworking of classics in a teenage setting, most enjoyably perhaps the transposition of Jane Austen's Emma to Beverly Hills in Clueless and of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to Padua, Seattle in 10 Things I Hate about You.A successful example of such exercises opened this week. Easy A is less a modern version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter than a witty look at some of the novel's themes 窶 hypocrisy, humiliation, conformity, social cowardice, individual goodness 窶 in a Californian high school where the book is on the curriculum. The delightful Emma Stone plays Olive, an intelligent, witty 18-year-old virgin who's pushed by her best friend into pretending to have a secret lover. The fake confession is overheard by a pious classmate, leader of a fundamentalist religious group, and in her hands gossip is transformed into scandal (which Wilde defined as gossip made tedious by morality). Very soon, after helping a tormented gay to appear as a conventional straight guy, Olive gains a reputation as an easy lay and becomes a pariah.The movie is not only cleverly developed and sharply observant of high-school life. It also makes a clever comparison between Victor Sjﾃｶstrﾃｶm's classic silent version of The Scarlet Letter starring Lillian Gish and the terrible Demi Moore treatment that most of Olive's class have seen in lieu of reading the book, and there is an amusing disquisition on Brat Pack films of the 1980s. Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson are a brilliant double act as Olive's liberal parents, whose cultivated sense of humour and falling-over-backwards empathy are part of the joke, and there's excellent work from Thomas Haden Church and Lisa Kudrow as sympathetic teachers. You'd have to see Easy A to fully appreciate Olive's line: "If there's one thing worse than chlamydia it's Florida."ComedyPeriod and historicalPhilip Frenchguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
'Made in Dagenham' Review: Sally Hawkins Asserts Women's Rights As an unlikely women's-rights leader, the Oscar-nominated actress is a steely counterweight to Made in Dagenham's lesser tendencies feedproxy.google.com |