by Erik Kain on March 3, 2012
Will release its third iPad installment next week? What about the new TV? is hosting a product event next Wednesday. Many analysts predict the iPad 3 will be released, possibly alongside the TV box-top reboot. The March 7th event is being billed with the slogan: “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 25, 2012
and Starz failed to reach a licensing agreement last year and customers are about to pay the price. A hefty number of titles will go missing at the end of February, thinning out ‘s already slim-pickings. Gabe Gagliano has put together an extensive list of the titles about to go AWOL from your instant queue. [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 22, 2012
Ten years ago, David Bowie predicted the death of copyright – in ten years. Like other 2012 end-times predictions, he was wrong. “The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it,” he said. “I see absolutely no point [...]
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Amazon and have reached a deal to add shows from the cable company’s various channels such as MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, to Amazon’s Prime instant video service. “Prime Instant Video now offers thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo-including past seasons of popular shows [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 3, 2012
Imagine you had a time machine that could only take you back in time ten years. The two towers had already fallen ten years ago in the horrifying September 11th attacks. George W. Bush had only been president for about a year. Everyone had the internet already, though it was significantly slower than it is [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 26, 2012
David Thier takes issue with my piracy post, writing that my argument over the nature of most piracy is “nothing but economic apologism. It says that we’re allowed to steal because it doesn’t really matter. Because we didn’t like that song anyway, we just wanted to hear what it was all about. Because it’s all [...]
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I was not alone in making angry noises about ‘s stripping down of Reader into a shell of its former self and nor am I alone in disliking the new look across the board. Reader not only feels empty because of the sudden, horrifying death of its social features – it also feels empty because [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 3, 2012
is launching its own exclusive series, Lilyhammer, on February 6th. has made some pretty glaring blunders over the past year or so, but launching their own television shows will hopefully not be one of them. Lilyhammer is the story of a mobster (played by Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt) who enters the witness protection program and [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 29, 2011
Roger Ebert is easily the most entertaining film critic out there, and only more so since he’s been blogging. His explanation for 2011′s decline in ticket sales at the movie theatre is well worth the read. He lists six reasons why 2011 wasn’t a huge year compared to 2010: 1. There was no major must-see [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 29, 2011
The Norwegian film delves deep into the mythology of trolls and the mundane bureaucracy that keeps them under wraps. Norwegian mockumentary The Troll Hunter is a parable of bureaucracy first and a modern myth second. The peculiar juxtaposition of massive, ancient trolls with the sterile, pencil-pushing government job of the man assigned to hunt and [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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