Media Junkie Lounge

Davion W asked:


There is so much one can do with an internet connection. Virtual communication becomes possible; so does sharing pictures with friends. One of the internet’s more recent breakthroughs is that it now enables one to download full length movies and music.

In many instances, such websites that allow one to download full length movies require one to register as full-fledged member by paying the corresponding membership fee. Usually, the one-time membership fee does not go beyond $40 — fairly cheap, considering that you get to download as many movies as you want. As soon as your membership is validated, you can already begin downloading your favorite movies right into your personal computer.

There are a number of websites that enable one to download full length movies. However, these sites usually do not offer their services for free. The reason for this, perhaps, is in compliance with anti-piracy laws, the main objective of which is to protect the movie industry.

Imagine the huge collection of all-time favorites, classics and even uncut versions in your movie library! This should come as great news for those who want to go into the movie rental business. They get legal access to thousands of movies without having to pay a lot of money!

Downloading a movie is not really difficult. It does not even require a fast internet connection, like DSL and similar high-speed connections, although that is highly recommended. Even with a dial-up connection, one can download full length movies.

However, before doing so, one must see to it that the website he wishes to download from is secured and licensed to sell movies online. While the internet does have a lot of advantages, internet scammers and online thieves still prowl the World Wide Web. So always be cautious when choosing a website to download full length movies from.

In particular, be wary of sites that offer free downloads of movies. Most likely unsecured and unlicensed, these sites may contain malicious spyware or viruses that could infect your computer. Moreover, because these are free sites, they are not expected to be equipped with copies of good quality movies, and they may not have the necessary technical support. So better go for something safe and will not likely to disappoint you — even if you have to pay a little investment.

To download full length movies is not illegal at all. So long as you pay the required fee, you are guaranteed of copies that are licensed and legal. Click on my blog and learn more about the legalities and guidelines for downloading movies.

Gen Wright asked:


Rihanna, born in 1988, is a singer from Bardados. She shot to fame in 1995, with her hit album, Music of the Sun. She is currently signed to the Def Jam Recordings label, and is the second Barbadian singer to have received a Grammy award.

Riding on her fame, she quickly released the a new single that featured the popular hit song “A Girl Like Me”. The song quickly gained immense popularity and was frequently aired by major radio and TV stations.

Her third album was released in 2007. It did even better and had six hit singles. Three of which were international hit singles - “Umbrella”, “Don’t Stop the Music” and “Take a Bow”. For a young singer who has debuted just 3 short years ago, Rihanna already has a very impressive record. In the U.S alone, she now has 11 top 40 hit singles.

Anyone would have wondered how Rihanna could have shot to fame so quickly. As it turns out, Rihanna wasn’t exactly a newcomer in the entertainment industry. Even when she was in school, she was already heavily involved in music. While studying in the Combermere School, she was part of a 3 person musical group. In 2004, she was proudly announced to be the winner of Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant.

Being beautiful certainly has its advantages. Her talent and beauty captured the attention of Evans Rogers, a record producer who happened to be on vacation in Barbados in 2003. Evans helped her make some recordings and sent them to various recording companies. Jay-Z, a successful singer and businessman, shared the same sentiments as Evans, and signed her to Def Jam Recordings. And everything just took off from there.

Music of the Sun, Rihanna’s debut album, was released on August 30, 2005. The album yielded 2 hit singles - “Pon de Replay”, and “If It’s Lovin’ That You Want”. “Pon de Replay” peaked at no.2 in the US on Billboard Hot 100 charts. “If It’s Lovin’ That You Want” did not do as well. It peaked at number 36. The album sold over five hundred thousand copies, which is a stunning result for a new recording artist.

Despite the debut album enjoying huge success on the charts, it was given a 2.5 out of 5 rating by Rolling Stone Magazine. The Magazine criticized the album for its lack of originality and replay value.

Ignoring all negative criticisms, Rihanna went on to release “A Girl Like Me” in 2006, and “Good Girl Gone Bad” in 2007. “A Girl like Me” achieved huge success, and peaked at no.1 in Australia and no.2 in the UK. “Good Girl Gone Bad” yielded a total of 8 hit singles.

During these album releases, Rihanna also tried her hand at acting and modeling. She is now known to be a young successful singer, actress, model, and fashion designer.

charli jhonson asked:


Celebrity Blogs is a source of online entertainment that offers celebrity gossip, celebrity photos, or latest Celeb news; be it Hollywood or Bollywood. They also provide current scoop on their day to day lifestyle.

The net is simply loaded with all sorts of news, views and blogs. One can easily get lost in the sea of information without realizing which is true and which is not. Ever wondered why every one is so after the celebrity news and celebrity Blogs? Read on to find why…

We are so inspired of our celebrities. We love them; we **** them and want to find every single detail about them. Really, we simply can’t get enough of them. We admire them to a limit that we want to follow them and their style to perfection. It is probably the reason why paparazzi are getting wide spread. But have we ever taken time to wonder what impact our wishes and desires have on the lives of celebrities? It is about time, my friend, about time.

We have seen so many cases of celebrities creating a hype and stir using fake news pieces and ultimately gaining from the situation by getting popular on a Celebrity blog. But there also have been incidents in which celebrities have broken down completely and their careers have ruined because of some irresponsible people. People are in so much awe of their celebrities and stars that they will do anything to hear about the latest gossips, their affairs, break ups, children and anything they say or do in private. They are ready to go to any limits to simply get a glimpse of their beloved stars. The newspapers and magazines are cashing on the public’s interest. Their journalists pester the stars. They can publish any false piece of story to increase their sales. But, how do you think we can change this situation? By reaching for the truth behind the headlines. This is the common responsibility of the readers and the journalists as well.

The first step to ensure this is to disregard all the false sensational news which is being promoted for personal and selfish gains. Be it the celebrities, the newspapers and magazines or even the bloggers on net. Turn to the sites which report the best celebrity news with truth element in them. Oh! And you really don’t need the flowery and fancy words. Truth, my friend is what always prevails.

Blogging with responsibility and truth is what we preach and appreciate. It is what in the end actually makes the difference. Finding and locating the real news and expressing your views truthfully are sooner or later going to make a difference and truth always attracts. Let the celebrity blogs, be simply them selves, and don’t let your blogs being used for the un-deserved gain of others. Originality is also essential; and so is the style to charm the readers.

So, visit all the sites providing true and unique celebrity news and blog to all your heart’s content there. After all, it is your right to read and write as freely as possible, but responsibly.

Gen Wright asked:


new celebrity gossip stories hit the front pages of the entertainment sites but how does one separate the truth from fiction? Of the popular news media outlets some of the more established like People Magazine, tend to be more reliable sources, confirming stories as much as possible before publishing. This tends to make these outlets trusted sources but at the same time often slow to come out with controversial news that’s harder to confirm and that might cause backlash. After all if a story reflects poorly on a celebrity, they and their reps are not likely to confirm and may in fact blatantly deny until totally cornered. They may also be reluctant to co-operate with that media outlet in the future.

There are also many media outlets that are more daring and will go forward with publishing a story pretty readily if they believe it’s based on truth, even if the gossip is based on circumstantial evidence. These types of stories require the most detective work to weigh the validity of the story. New couple alerts are a good example. Celebrities are often spotted ‘looking cozy’ together all the time. Sometimes these types of stories have some supporting photo evidence, other times it’s based on hearsay third party witnesses. Many times these stories are just planted by reps. and the celebrities themselves for publicity purposes. Jennifer Aniston is forever being linked to every leading man she works with, especially since her splitting from Brad Pitt. Fans want to see Jen find love again and tabloids are anxious to deliver to sell magazines. Two thirds of those stories or more are false of course. When Jen was initially linked with John Mayer, frankly I was skeptical. The funny/sad thing was, when Jen broke up with Mayer, she was immediately linked with another hot new guy. This rumor which should have made anyone highly skeptical soon proved to be false but that’s the nature of this business. Without going into a whole manifesto here, another type of story example that’s usually hard to get confirmation on is celebrities stricken with health issues. It was ‘The National Enquirer’ that broke the news on the Patrick Swayze cancer story, which was confirmed by his rep. after the actor was ‘outed’. Meanwhile stories like, Paul Newman’s alleged battle with cancer has never been officially confirmed.

Many gossip news outlets fall into a third category. Seemingly under the gun to crank out new articles,they throw in a few ‘trash gossip’ stories in the mix of each publication. Most of these fiction based stories are not malicous, and based on some shred of truth, that I call ‘progression stories’. A celebrity dating the same person for a while, is reported to be, breaking up, cheating or planning their wedding. A celebrity known to drink, is going to rehab. A celebrity is photographed with a new ring, there engaged. A couple weeks before Jennifer Aniston split up with John Mayer she appeared on two magazine covers on the same week. One reporting she was planning her wedding, the second saying she was already making plans to have a baby.

My biggest pet peeves in the truth and lies game is twofold:

Media outlets and websites that deliberately publish malicious ‘false stories’ for the sake of publicity. Many of these stories capitalizing on celebrities misfortunes and are attention grabbing but often based on nothing more then conjecture or just imagination. A recent trash story, that had my blood boiling, claimed that Christina Applegate was going to put off treatment for ****** cancer so she could have a baby! The tabloid picked up on the fact that: ‘Christina told an interviewer that she didn’t want to wait until her mid-forties to have a baby, and that her biological clock was ticking.’We learned 5 days later that Christina Applegate had already had a double mastectomy performed to remove the cancer.

Likewise media outlets that turn their back on certain types of stories because they don’t want to get their hands dirty or offend their audience. Recently the NY Post’s famous Page Six published under their ‘blind items’:

‘Which hunk in a summer movie is a violent, closeted **********? The heartthrob snuck into his ex’s apartment a few months ago and ***** him so violently, the ex ended up in the hospital - and the actor paid him $500,000 to keep his mouth shut.’

Well I guess you can see why they might be a bit reluctant to name, names. It’s not unusual for one of these blind items, which are posted frequently to eventually be reported with names by more daring publishers.

Davion W asked:


Many movie studios have come to a conclusion that selling movies only on DVDs is not always viable for them, so they started allowing Internet users to download full length DVD movies at a lower fee. Since this eliminates the need of inventory and storage space, as well as gives an opportunity to reach out for a wider audience, the method has proven to be beneficial for the movie distributors – and for movie buffs, of course!

So, now you don’t need to buy an expensive DVD every time you want to watch a new movie. What if it turns to be disappointing? The DVD will be put aside to collect dust forever, then. Even rental is not that cheap, especially if you tend to watch lots of movies and fail to return the DVDs on time. When you download full length DVD movies online, you basically get the same experience plus a few great advantages:

1. As mentioned before, it gives you an opportunity to save. Fee per download can range between $2 and $5 in most cases, but there are even cheaper options that are based on paid membership rather than price per downloaded movie.

2. When you are offered to download full length DVD movies, it means the quality will be the same as you see on a conventional DVD. Basically, it is the exact copy of the same movie issued on a DVD, without any cuts and/or changes. In other words, you do not lose anything by downloading a movie online and not buying in a store.

3. Professional and reputed sites will not only allow you to download a full length DVD movie, but also transfer it to a disk to play on a conventional video player. All the required software and conversion programs are provided for free.

4. Unlike the chaos of shady torrent websites, neatly organized files and easy search of legal movie distributing websites are definitely helpful. You can also be sure that no hidden virus or malware will pass to your system along with the downloaded file.

5. With the fast downloading speeds of advanced websites you no more have to wait hours to download a full length DVD movie. The entire process is many times easier and faster than going to the DVD shop, browsing through the selection, standing in a line to pay, etc.

With all the obvious advantages of the new alternative, it is only natural that it is becoming the first choice of so many people worldwide. Wait no longer – download full length DVD movies of your choice and enjoy the undisputed benefits!