Friday, April 6, 2018

Stay up to date on every Movie being made


Ever wonder what movies are coming out soon. What about next month or the month after or maybe you want to know what's coming out during a holiday or some other day that is special to you.

If you're like many others and occasionally get curious as to what's coming soon, the website Movie Insider has you covered. They not only give you release date information for upcoming releases, but they give you detailed information about every film in production by the major studios. From conceptual beginnings to pre-production, casting, casting changes, and basically every stage of development until the film is finished and scheduled for release.

Useful information can be yours at the click of a link. This is for sure a link you'll want to bookmark for future reference.

Check it out!

Movie Insider

You can also follow them on Twitter @movieinsider



How to fix DNS server not responding?


Are you sick of seeing this...“Your computer appears to be correctly configured, but the device or resource (DNS server) is not responding, error message.”

What is DNS server not responding?
How do I fix my DNS server?
How do I find my DNS server?
How do you fix DNS server not responding?
How can I reset my DNS server?

Listed below are the 4 most important and useful ways to fix your DNS server is not responding errors.

The problem>
You cannot connect to Internet, although your computer appears to be correctly configured, however the device or resource (DNS server) is not responding

The most common and easy fix is to do the following.

Restart your router

Remove the power cord from the router.
Wait at least 30 seconds after all lights on the router have gone out and then
reconnect the power cord to the router.

*Sometimes this does not do the trick. In such an unfortunate case such as this you could try the next suggestion for fixing your problem.


The 2nd best way to solve your internet problem

Go to Control Panel and open Network and Internet then go to Internet Connections and select your connection, then right click and open Properties and select Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) > Properties.

Then follow these easy steps.

  • Select Obtain an IPv6 address automatically > Obtain DNS servers address automatically > OK.
  • Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) > Properties.
  • Select Obtain an IP address automatically > Obtain DNS servers address automatically > OK.
Then click OK again to close.

If this series of steps seems like too much to handle, there is an even easier way to solve your internet connection problems.

The 3rd most easy and useful way to to fix your DNS server is not responding errors.

Select Start, type command prompt in the Search Programs and files box, press and hold and hit enter.

At the command prompt, type the following commands. Press Enter after each command.


ipconfig /flushdns

ipconfig /registerdns

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew



If all else fails you can simply follow my 4th most easy and even more practical way o fix your DNS server is not responding errors.

Invite some friends over and have an office party, and everyone can have a go at it with a good ol' baseball bat, and then throw the damn thing out and buy a new one!

The Top 20 Best Selling eBooks of 2017


Looking back on the year that was 2017 and wondering what the best of the best was, here's a list of the best selling ebooks of the year by actual sales through the world's biggest eBook seller.

If you were to do a search, you'd discover that everyone has a best selling list, and if you've seen a few you have undoubtedly noticed that they are not all the same. One of the most respected and highly referenced is the NY Times best sellers list, and then there is the LA Times, Wall Street Journal and then the online Book Sellers Barnes & Noble, and of course Amazon. And all of these lists will be different...WTH you say??

The truth is that most of these lists are based loosely on sales figures that are collected by Nielsen BookScan, and their figures represent something in the area of 75%-85% of actual sales. So, there is no definitive actual best seller list, you simply get what others are speculating about.

Realizing that all of these lists are speculative and not very accurate, I feel a little bit more confident with the lists that Amazon publishes. They are the biggest online seller of books and eBooks in all formats and there is not even a close second.

Here then are the Best Selling eBooks of 2017 as reported by Amazon.

1. The Handmaid's Tale Kindle Edition
by Margaret Atwood

2. Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel Kindle Edition
by Mark Sullivan

3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Kindle Edition
by J.K. Rowling  (Author),? Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)

4. Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake Series Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Rachel Caine

5. Everything We Keep: A Novel (The Everything Series Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Kerry Lonsdale

6. A Criminal Defense (Philadelphia Legal) Kindle Edition
by William L. Myers Jr.

7. In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II Kindle Edition
by Rhys Bowen

8. When I'm Gone: A Novel Kindle Edition
by Emily Bleeker

9. Silent Child Kindle Edition
by Sarah A. Denzil

10. I Am Watching You Kindle Edition
by Teresa Driscoll

11. 1984 Kindle Edition
by George Orwell

12. The Letter: The No. 1 ebook bestseller Kindle Edition
by Kathryn Hughes

13. Dead Certain: A Novel Kindle Edition
by Adam Mitzner

14. Beach Lawyer (Beach Lawyer Series) Kindle Edition
by Avery Duff

15. The Night Bird (Frost Easton Mystery Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Brian Freeman

16. The Naturalist (The Naturalist Series Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Andrew Mayne

17. The Naturalist (The Naturalist Series Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Andrew Mayne


18. P.S. from Paris (US edition) Kindle Edition
by Marc Levy  (Author),? Sam Taylor (Translator)

19. A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Kendra Elliot

20. The Unremembered Girl: A Novel Kindle Edition
by Eliza Maxwell

Source: Amazon

The Top 20 Best Selling Books of 2017


Looking back on the year that was 2017 and wondering what the best of the best was, here's a list of the best selling books of the year by actual sales through the world's biggest book seller.

If you were to do a search, you'd discover that everyone has a best selling list, and if you've seen a few you have undoubtedly noticed that they are not all the same. One of the most respected and highly referenced is the NY Times best sellers list, and then there is the LA Times, Wall Street Journal and then the online Book Sellers Barnes & Noble, and of course Amazon. And all of these lists will be different...WTH you say??

The truth is that most of these lists are based loosely on sales figures that are collected by Nielsen BookScan, and their figures represent something in the area of 75%-85% of actual sales. So, there is no definitive actual best seller list, you simply get what others are speculating about.

Realizing that all of these lists are speculative and not at all accurate, I feel a little bit more confident with the lists that Amazon publishes. They are the biggest online seller of books in all formats and there is not even a close second.

Here then are the Best Selling Books of 2017 of the year as reported by Amazon.


1. Wonder Hardcover – February 14, 2012
by R. J. Palacio

2. Milk and Honey Paperback – October 6, 2015
by Rupi Kaur

3.Giraffes Can't Dance Board book – March 1, 2012
by Giles Andreae  (Author),? Guy Parker-Rees  (Illustrator)

4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – September 13, 2016
by Mark Manson

5. The Getaway Hardcover – November 7, 2017
by Jeff Kinney


6. The Instant Pot? Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook: Easy Recipes for Fast & Healthy Meals Paperback – April 6, 2016
by Laurel Randolph

7. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Hardcover – June 28, 2016
by J. D. Vance

8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Hardcover – May 2, 2017
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

9. First 100 Words Board book – May 10, 2011
by Roger Priddy

10. The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom Hardcover – April 21, 2015
by Melissa Hartwig and Dallas Hartwig

11. The Handmaid's Tale Paperback – March 16, 1998
by Margaret Atwood

12. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Paperback – January 1, 2015
by Gary Chapman

13. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Paperback – April 23, 2013
by Jen Sincero

14. What Happened Hardcover – September 12, 2017
by Hillary Rodham Clinton

15. Oh, the Places You'll Go!   Hardcover – Special Edition, January 22, 1990
by Dr. Seuss

16. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World Hardcover – April 4, 2017
by William H. McRaven


17. 1984 (Signet Classics) Mass Market Paperback – Unabridged, July 1, 1950
by George Orwell  (Author),? Erich Fromm (Afterword)

18. How to Win Friends & Influence People Paperback – October 1, 1998
by Dale Carnegie

19. Origin: A Novel Hardcover – October 3, 2017
by Dan Brown

20. A Man Called Ove: A Novel Paperback – May 5, 2015
by Fredrik Backman

Source: Amazon

The Top 25 Films of 2017

The Top 25 Films of 2017

These were the top grossing films for the year of 2017. These films reveal that the masses will continue to flock to films with super heroes, sequels, animated fantasy and everything fantastic.

These films do not represent the best of what was made in the past year, they only indicate what was the most popular.

The top grossing films of 2017 listed here are what was big on the domestic front. There is a slight difference, although not much, between the US domestic tallies and what the worldwide totals were.

I've included a link for that also if you have a curious inquisitive nature, then by all means check it out.


What was your favorite film from the past year, I wonder?


2017 Top Grossing Films In The US

Rank    Movie                                                      Total Gross

 1 Star Wars: The Last Jedi                           $619,483,244
 2 Beauty and the Beast (2017)                     $504,014,165
 3 Wonder Woman                                         $412,563,408
 4 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle                $397,250,264
 5 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2                  $389,813,101
 6 Spider-Man: Homecoming                         $334,201,140
 7 It                                                                 $327,481,748
 8 Thor: Ragnarok                                          $315,034,967
 9 Despicable Me 3                                        $264,624,300
10 Justice League                                           $229,007,315
11 Logan                                                         $226,277,068
12 The Fate of the Furious                              $226,008,385
13 Coco                                                           $208,840,284
14 Dunkirk                                                       $188,045,546
15 Get Out                                                       $176,040,665
16 The LEGO Batman Movie                          $175,750,384
17 The Boss Baby                                           $175,003,033
18 Pirates of the Caribbean: 
     Dead Men Tell No Tales                             $172,558,876
19 Kong: Skull Island                                      $168,052,812
20 The Greatest Showman                             $167,614,558
21 Cars 3                                                         $152,901,115
22 War for the Planet of the Apes                   $146,880,162
23 Split                                                            $138,291,365
24 Wonder                                                       $132,221,523
25 Transformers: The Last Knight                   $130,168,683

Dunkirk - WWII Drama - 1958 Stream or Download 4 FREE

Dunkirk WWII Drama 1958

Before you head out to the theaters this weekend, and see the 2017 Dunkirk English War thriller written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan, that features Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, and Harry Styles, treat yourself to a real-deal, made the way they're supposed to be classic, Dunkirk from 1958.

This film's story is meshed together from two novels. This Dunkirk from 1958 is a British war film directed by Leslie Norman. It stars John Mills, Richard Attenborough, along with Bernard Lee.

This Classic WWII Drama tells us the story of Operation Dynamo, an operation that lasted nine days. From the beaches of Dunkirk, many British and French troops were successfully evacuated in May and June of 1940.

At Dunkirk the Allies are surrounded and they fear being totally annihilated from the Nazi's. This World War II story is told primarily from the two points of views from the novels, this script is based on, a newspaper reporter and a soldier.

After being surrounded and trapped Allies began ferrying soldiers off of the beaches to safety. Eventually, soldiers were being picked up by any and every type of boat or ship that could get there, including civilian vessels as well. This takes place all while soldiers on the beaches are subjected to regular aerial bombing and strafing.

On May 23rd - 24th the German advance had come to a surprising halt, it was to be only temporary and then resume again. It ended up taking longer than anticipated, somewhere around 48 hours had passed in fact. They had simply outrun their supply columns, and had orders to wait for reinforcement before resuming full attack. This led to the eventual success of Operation Dynamo and how the Allies survived what many thought would be a total defeat.

In the aftermath some 330,000 troops were saved. The Germans on the other hand had scored a major victory and recovered all of the abandoned Allied supplies, some of which were 880 field guns, 310 large caliber guns, about 500 anti-aircraft guns, along with 850 anti-tank guns, 11,000 machine guns, approximately 700 tanks, 20,000 motorcycles, and 45,000 motor cars and lorries.

The German Army had won an important battle in France, but the dysfunction at the heart of the German high command could be seen here, it would ultimately lead to their own defeat and downfall.

The story here begins with some disparaging of a perceived 'phony war' and a writer's amazement at his countryman's complacency, their unwillingness to acknowledge the imminent danger ahead.

The story's viewpoint is observed through the eyes of Charles Foreman and that of Cpl. 'Tubby' Binns. Tubby is our reluctant leader along with a small group who have been disconnected from their larger unit and left behind. It is for them now, to find their way forward. Their trek eventually leads them to the beaches of Dunkirk, where Tubby eventually meets up with Foreman. These character's only briefly connect, as Foreman laments the why of what's going on. Finally, one of the reluctant participants, Holden, eventually gets to be of help, after civilian watercraft was conscripted. This led to civilian volunteers to aid in the evacuation. It's a very British film in language and dialect that is interesting to observe.

The shortcomings of the film would be that the film poorly illustrates the 48 hour period of the German halt. In the film, we have, it's barely noticeable, and after being noticed, air bombings ensued. The film also didn't do as well as they could have in illustrating visually the civilian effort. All of the boats that were in use made up an impressive impromptu armada that we never fully see. The sense of timing is lost here, you're just left to wonder about them instead.

Nevertheless, this period piece is well worth seeing. In the darkest of hours there will always be some optimists among pessimism. The contrasts of the two main characters are what make the blending of the two stories told here so interesting. In what became known as The Miracle of Dunkirk, the film shows us how everyone pulled together in the effort to save their boys.


The film from 1958 is as Director Leslie Norman states: “I was the council school boy who became a major in the war, and that had a lot to do with the way I felt about Dunkirk. I didn't think that Dunkirk was a defeat; I always thought it was a very gallant effort but not a victory.”

Watch the video below or follow the link to  Stream the film below
Stream Dunkirk 1958