By Germain Lussier/Sept. 4, 2012 6:38 pm EST
Sometimes you just want to watch a dumb, gory, horror movie and Troma Entertainment has always been more than happy to oblige. For decades the independent production and distrubtion company has been responsible for hundreds and hundreds of films, most of which you haven’t heard of. (Some of the ones you have include The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke Em High, and Cannibal The Musical.) Many of those random films are now available on YouTube, to stream for free, on the TromaMovies account. Thanks to Tech Dirt via BoingBoing.
Hulu is currently available on Apple TV in the U.S. but, apparently, it wasn’t available in Japan. According to TUAW, that change has finally been made and you can even get a free one month trial.
A Netflix spokesman said the company decided not to renew its exclusive deal with EPIX because the premium channel’s content is available elsewhere through TV Everywhere services that are offered to cable subscribers — and therefore not truly exclusive. The programming accounts for only about 5% of viewing hours.
The BBC has their own App on the Market, the BBC iPlayer but, up until today, it only allows live streams of BBC shows like Doctor Who. With a new update today, first reported on in The Guardian via AppAdvice, users can now download full episodes to watch when they’re offline. Unfortunately for users outside of the United Kingdom, the global version of the app does not allow that option, but might in the future.
Finally, my favorite Troma film of all time is the aforementioned Cannibal: The Musical, by South Park/Book of Mormon creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They made the film while in college, and it’s very much in the vein of those two defining Parker/Stone projects. Fortunately, it’s much, much, much worse. If you’ve never seen it, here you go. Have a Shpadoinkle day!
