Don Cheadle directs and stars in MILES AHEAD, a bio-pic about jazz great Miles Davis. The rags to riches (and sometimes back to rags) life stories of legendary musicians told on the big screen are numerous, here are ten that struck the right chord. Amadeus Beyond The...
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There have been individual Batman and Superman films dating back to the 1940s, but the two most famous comic book superheroes of all time finally share the screen in BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. Here are some of the wildly diverse cinematic interpretations of...
Read MoreAnother awesome hackathon is in the books! This past weekend I was lucky enough to attend the NBCUniversal/Media Labs hackathon in Sunnyvale, California as a tech partner. Internet Video Archive (IVA) gave participants full access to our APIs, trailer content, and expertise to help them...
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The Supreme Court is dominating the news right now. Considering how much the Court's decisions influence American society, it has only rarely been represented in the movies. Here are nine films (one for each justice) that have used the highest court in the land, one...
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By Rebecca Horovitz, Acquisitions Coordinator, Games I think I have a bit of an unusual experience reviewing The Following expansion. I played the expansion before finishing the main quest and before being at the appropriate level, but I wasn’t far off. Things went smoothly at first but...
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The story of CLOVERFIELD continues in the unexpected sequel 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, featuring a new set of characters trying to survive in a world destroyed after the events of the first film. Making a truly scary movie is hard enough, but finding something new to...
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IVA joins a long list of technology partners including Twitter, Amazon, WatchWith, Spredfast, Ford, and more to give access to our vast library of "snackable" video content and easy to use API's. In the fall of 2015 IVA was a tech partner in a similar...
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In WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, a reporter played by Tina Fey risks life and limb covering war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here are some other celebrated cinematic journalists on the trail of "the big story." Absence of Malice Ace in the Hole All The President's Men Foreign Correspondent Good Night, and Good...
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Did you know IVA also has video game trailers and video content? All this and more can be found via IVA's OData 2.0 API. Use the example queries below to get started ingesting the data about over 10,000 video assets for over 5,000 games. Use...
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A ruthless gang of crooks will stop at nothing in the gritty new heist film TRIPLE 9. A bunch of guys "pulling a job" is one of cinema's most irresistible genres, as this collection of criminals, delinquents, and recidivists proves! The Asphalt Jungle The Killing Ocean's 11 Quick Change Reservoir...
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