Pride and Prejudice (PG, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent and $4.99 to buy) – From Amazon: The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters – Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet – in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) … Read more
On Thanksgiving, when the little ones are getting antsy, it’s time to break out the holiday videos. And if you’ve loaded up a few of these on your Kindle Fire ahead of time, you can keep the backseat crew quiet for that long drive home, too! Elf (PG, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to … Read more
Kindle Fire + iPod: The Grudging Marriage Born of Necessity Most people who have a Kindle Fire use it for apps, video, email, web browsing and reading ebooks, but not many use it for music. Music sounds great on the new HD models, but the Fire is just a little too big to easily toss … Read more
Robert Duvall is perhaps best known for his Academy Award -nominated, tour-de-force starring turn in The Great Santini, or the leading actor role for which he won the Oscar, in Tender Mercies. Duvall was also very memorable as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. But did you know he got his start in 1960’s … Read more
Due to fallout from the cable TV wars, many consumers have lost the BBC America channel. Others have had to give up their premium channel packages to balance the household budget, or else their cable provider never carried BBCA to begin with. Luckily, Amazon Instant Video has made many of BBC America’s fantastic programs available … Read more
When a great book is adapted into a movie, conventional wisdom states the movie will never be as good as the book. But conventional wisdom isn’t always right. Sometimes the movie is very good, but quite different from the book. Sometimes the movie’s a terrific adaptation, but simply too limited in time or scope to … Read more
Wes Anderson is one of those auteurs like Tim Burton: directors with a strong design aesthetic who care as much about color and composition as they do about story, and who enjoy collaborating with the same actors over and over. Anderson’s body of work includes numerous critical favorites and sleeper hits, but he’s yet to crack … Read more
Here at Kindle Fire on Kindle Nation Daily we mostly stick to writing about the content, news and accessories that are specific to the Kindle Fire device, but we just had to share this Blu-ray bargain because it’s so incredible, and we’re sure many of our readers won’t want to miss it. The Mel Brooks … Read more