Finding a movie reviewer for AMJ has been a long time coming but I think we’ve found our man. Please welcome Apple Movie Junkie’s newest contributor and official movie reviewer Evan Buxton. Evan’s review style is both fun yet informative. We aren’t trying to be the next Slash Film, we’re just trying pass on some useful information to the AMJ readers and have fun at the same time.

The first review out of the blocks from Evan will be Crazy Heart, a new addition to the iTunes Store which stars Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. Keep your eyes out for that later this morning.

Welcome aboard Evan!

So much for the Netflix advantage. Websites all over the net are reporting on the new agreement in which Netflix has entered with 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios. All though this agreement means a larger Watch Instantly movie library for Netflix, it also means that it won’t carry new release titles until 28 days after their initial release. The first big titles this affects will be Avatar from 20th Century Fox, and Universal’s It’s Complicated. Both of these titles are currently available for pre-order in the iTunes Store and are scheduled to be released the day of the DVD release.

So if you don’t want to wait 28 days to watch these and other movies, sign up for a free Cinemira account and add them to your Will Call Stack, which will notify you the day they are available to rent.

In order to spread the word about the many benefits and features Cinemira has to offer to the movie junkies of the world, we have added a Cinemira facebook fan page to it’s many avenues of communication. So along with our twitter page, you can now catch the latest Cinemira news feeds on our facebook page. Enjoy!

For the past 2 plus years, first Apple TV Junkie now Apple Movie Junkie, has been the destination for Apple TV and iTunes movie fans to find out the latest and greets additions on a daily basis. With Cinemira now open to all, and with many of its services automating what we do here manually, we don’t see the need to continue the daily updates. We will continue to post our New Movie Tuesday posts, keep up to date on the $.99 rentals, and keep track of the top 5 rentals and purchase titles. Its a new day for Apple Movie Junkie with the release of Cinemira, we thank all of our visitors over the years for your support, and we hope to continue to provide you with the helpful information you’ve come to expect from Apple Movie Junkie.

It’s been while since we’ve published one of our “The More You Know” posts, and with our new dedication to Apple movie content, we thought we’ve start the series off again with a little information on iTunes Store movie rental usage rights. If you’ve ever wondered how long you have before you rental expires, or if you can transfer a rental from your Apple TV to your computer, read below.

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• You have 30 days to watch the movie after the download completes. You can start watching the movie while it is still downloading.

• Once you’ve started to watch the movie, you have 24 hours to finish watching the movie (even if you start watching before the download is complete). You can watch the movie as many times as you want within this 24-hour period.

• The rented movie will expire when either the 30 day or 24-hour limit is reached. Once the rental expires, the movie is automatically deleted. You must re-rent and download the movie to view it after your rented movie has expired.

• You can move the movie between devices as many times as you wish during the rental period, but the movie can only be played on one device at a time. If you rent the movie on your Apple TV, it is not transferable to any other device and you must watch it on your Apple TV.

• On your device, the time remaining for you to finish watching the movie appears near the movie title.

• You can only play your rented movies on the computer you rented it from and only if it is authorized to play your iTunes Store purchases and rentals.

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For more The More You Know posts head over to our section of the same name.

I guess its that time of the year when award shows and award events seem to pop up from every corner of the web. Even our little corner of the world in San Diego finally has its very own web awards called #influenceSD and Apple Movie Junkie is up for one. Specifically we’ve been nominated for the San Diego Blog of the year. I have no idea what the blog of the year in San Diego entails, but it sounds like fun. If you get a second feel free to head over to #influenceSD, click on the little arrow next to our name, and show us some junkie love.