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How to watch movies online for free — legally

sudshr47 March 28, 2019

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In the modern age of the internet, there are ways to watch movies for free that are completely legal. Yes, you read that correctly. There’s no need to visit any shady sites or jump around YouTube in order to watch free movies. 

Free (and legal) movies are waiting for you only a few clicks away, and there’s a pretty easy hack to get you there. It all hinges on one crucial step: Get creative with utilizing free trials, and you’ll have hundreds of free movies right at your fingertips. 

Almost every movie streaming service offers new subscribers a free trial period to “try before you buy.” Taking a test run on a streaming service is the best way to know if it’s a good fit for you and your individual movie tastes. Of course, eventually you’ll run out of free trials, but the idea is to use these free trials to shop around so you can find the streaming service that you truly love — and don’t mind paying for. Read more…

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Video streaming subscribers now outnumber cable customers: report

sudshr47 March 25, 2019

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Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other video streaming service subscribers now outnumber their cable subscribing counterparts.

According to a report by the Motion Picture Association of America, online video subscriptions surpassed the number of cable customers in 2018. 

The MPAA’s report says there were 613.3 million online video service subscriptions as of last year, a 27 percent increase from 2017. Those 131.2 million new customers helped video streaming services exceed cable’s 556 million subscribers for the very first time. 

Also assisting video subscription services in surpassing cable: cord cutters. Cable’s overall customer base fell 2 percent in 2018, according to the MPAA report. Read more…

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‘PEN15’ is a hilariously painful reminder that middle school mattered

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

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Every once in a while, social media is swarmed by people participating in 10 year challenges, where people dig up photos of themselves from a decade ago and juxtapose them with a more recent picture. These challenges are meant to show how much time has changed someone, but to be real — they’re really just a flex on how much hotter people are now than when they were teenagers. 

10 year challenges often start conversations about how wild fashion was back then, why anyone thought a then-trendy haircut looked good, or how everyone has puberty to thank for erasing the humiliating forms of their younger selves. The “after” picture exists as a thank you, or perhaps a thank god, that the acne and bad jeans of the past don’t exist anymore.  Read more…

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‘The Act’ offers up true crime at its most heart-wrenchingly exploitative

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

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Warning: Spoilers for The Act lie ahead.

I’m a fan of true crime the same way some people are fans of Halo Top. 

After a long day, I’ll crack open nearly any true crime account and eat up the terrifying, true-to-life details with a metaphoric spoon. Whether it’s a movie, series, or podcast, I live for moment-to-moment reconstructed investigations, retrospective interviews with emotional eyewitnesses, and the big reveal of that one mistake that gets the criminal caught. Put plainly: True crime is very much my thing.

So, you can imagine my surprise when only an hour and a half into The Act, I had an overwhelming urge to turn off the TV —  and then possibly throw up. This is true crime in its most brutal and most transparently self-serving form. Read more…

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Original Content podcast: ‘Shrill’ stays positive, despite bad boyfriends and terrible bosses

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

Many of the themes and stories found in Hulu’s “Shrill” will be familiar to fans of writer Lindy West — after all, it’s based on her book “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman,” and she’s a writer on the series. But “Shrill” has mined the autobiographical material in West’s book to tell a fictionalized story […]

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Disney closes its $71.3B Fox acquisition

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

As of 12:02am Eastern today, Disney has closed its acquisition of 21st Century Fox . The goal of the enormous acquisition is to help Disney position itself for a streaming-centric future. The company has already taken a step in that direction with the ESPN+ streaming service, and it has plans to launch another service called […]

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Disney says Fox acquisition will close on March 20

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

More than a year after the deal was first announced, it looks like Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox is about to close. Disney announced today that the deal is “expected to become effective at 12:02 a.m. Eastern Time on March 20, 2019,” suggesting that it has obtained the final approval needed, specifically from regulators […]

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Hulu and Spotify launch an even more steeply discounted bundle of $9.99 per month

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

Hulu and Spotify today announced an expansion of their partnership on discounted streaming bundles, which lowers the price of Hulu’s ad-supported service to, well… nothing. Starting today, Spotify Premium subscribers can basically tack on a Hulu subscription for free on top of their existing $9.99 per month streaming music plan. In other words, for the […]

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15 Hulu tips for streaming TV fans

sudshr47 March 7, 2019

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If you’re a cord cutter or want to be, but can’t abandon network TV, you need Hulu. The service is best known for streaming shows the day after they air, specifically shows from a few of the five major networks—ABC, NBC, and Fox. (CBS has its own streaming service and Hulu’s next-day CW shows deal evaporated in 2016.) It’s also got lots of content from other cable outlets and many movies—Hulu has almost as many “certified fresh” films on the Rotten Tomatoes list as Amazon Prime.

When it first emerged, we dinged Hulu for a lack of news, sports, and original programming, as well as ads that interrupted the paid version, all points that were probably big factors in Hulu’s relatively slow growth. Those fortunes have changed. It got its first Emmy nod in 2017 for the excellent show Casual, and then became a major player with the multiple wins for the dystopian thriller The Handmaid’s Tale. That show was probably the biggest factor in how Hulu doubled its subscriber based in the last year to 25 million. Read more…

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