28
Oct
Posted By: JMom // Category:
Movies
On the way back to Netflix, the Brothers Bloom got lost…
The Brothers Bloom
(2008)
The Brothers Bloom made a name for themselves as the world’s best con men. Now, the younger (Adrien Brody) is ready to retire on the millions the pair has swindled. But when his brother (Mark Ruffalo) lures him into one last job, he reluctantly agrees. What he hasn’t counted on, though, is falling for their mark, an adventure-seeking heiress (Rachel Weisz). Robbie Coltrane and Babel’s Rinko Kikuchi co-star.
We watched this movie over the weekend and I was pleasantly surprised. I hadn’t heard of this movie before, my daughter was the one who put it on the Netflix queue.
Speaking of which, I totally love Netflix! For $10 a month, we can choose one movie at a time and we can keep it for as long as we want without any late fees. You exchange videos over the mail, but they make it a point to have a center near you so you can get your next movie the following day after they receive your previous DVD. Isn’t that cool? If you work it right, you can end up getting a movie every three days or so!
We’ve had the service a couple of months now and everything has been seamless up until now. I just received notice that Netflix received an empty envelope from me. This DVD has magically disappeared between my mailbox and theirs. It’s always a good thing when companies have excellent POS systems. Because after I told Netflix that I did return the DVD in the envelope, they simply said, “OK, it happens!”
I like their kind of thinking! I was expecting them to charge me for the movie and I was ready for an argument!
So wherever The Brothers Bloom have gotten to, I hope the thief gets what he deserves.
27
Sep
Posted By: JMom // Category:
Blogging,
Movies
I have been using Photobucket’s free online storage service for the photos that I use for blogging. I think that Photobucket has the best photo storage service available online. Even though there are bells and whistles that used to be attractive to me in other services, I always went back to Photobucket because of their solid basic services.
They provide almost unlimited storage and bandwidth as part of their free service package. For a small blog or one that is just starting out, this is plenty. I never did fill my quota up in the four years that I had the free service. I could have stayed that way longer but for a unique and hard to pass up offer that I found just recently.
They had an offer for free upgrade to the pro service if you sign up for Netflix. Well what a coincidence! It just so happened that I was approaching my storage limit in the free Photobucket owing to the large sized formats I had been uploading lately. And the kids had been bugging me to buy more DVDs and/or rent movies more and more as they got interested in new and old movies. So it just made sense for us to sign up for Netflix! When I signed up for the $9 a month plan on Netflix, I got Photobucket Pro FREE for a year! That was an awesome deal especially as we already got our money’s worth in DVD rentals before our free first month was even over.
So check it out if this deal is still available. It’s definitely worth it.
