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Exclusive: McPherson and Hinds on The Eclipse |
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 |
One of the movies that really took us by surprise at last year's Tribeca Film Festival was Conor McPherson's The Eclipse, a film set in a small Irish seaside town that mixes genres in a flud way we haven't seen very often in recent years. McPherson, an Irish playwright, essentially adapted the short story "Table Manners" from Billy Roche's collection "Tales from Rainwater Pond" and took it in a very different for the film.
Ciaran Hinds, who also starred in McPherson's Broadway play "The Seafarer," plays Michael Farr, a lonely widower and father of two still not quite over the death of his wife, who is assigned to drive British horror author Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle) around during the town's annual literary fair. Being that Michael has started having nightmarish visions and seeing ghosts himself, he finds himself confiding in Lena, while she deals with the unwanted advances of another world-renowned author visiting for the festival, played by Aidan Quinn.
Where at its heart The Eclipse is a character piece about dealing with loss, it also features some absolutely shocking scares, a good deal of romanticism as well as a strong sense of humor, mainly in the way Quinn plays the arrogant blowhard jealous of the attention Michael is getting from Lena. But what most will leave the movie with is what an astounding and underrated actor Hinds is, being that his character runs the emotional gamut often without saying very much.
A few weeks back, we had a chance to sit down with McPherson and Hinds to talk about their fascinating and distinctive film. |
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Lexo me shume...
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Macs: Not as Secure as We Thought? |
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Saturday, 28 March 2009 |
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Well, I don't know about other security professionals, but I'm not at all shocked that this year's PWN2OWN contest showed that both Windows PCs and Macs could be cracked. I do have to admit that 10 seconds was a bit of a shocker for the Mac Platform. Look, I have put my faith in OS X since 2003, but I'm not one of those Mac zealots who think that Macs are infallible. There sure are less of us than our Windows using brethren. So, we're a smaller target simply because the user base is smaller. That's one of the reasons there haven't been as many Mac viruses. But the contest also showed that the recently launched IE8 could be hacked too (although I'm sure it took longer than 10 seconds). Those mere 10 seconds keep echoing in my head. |
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Lexo me shume...
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Adobe Reader, IE 7 Holes Under Attack |
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Saturday, 28 March 2009 |
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 If you were an Internet crook, the following item would be music to your ears: A zero-day flaw--a security hole with no fix available before attacks could be launched--exists in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, and can be exploited by a poisoned PDF file in an attempt to take over a vulnerable computer.
As Symantec reported in February, crooks have hit the flaw with small-scale attacks that e-mail PDF attachments to specific targets. Adobe says a patch should be ready for version 9 of both programs by the time you read this, with fixes for earlier versions to follow. Read Adobe's alert and get a link to the eventual fixes. |
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Lexo me shume...
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