As bizarre as it sounds, when it comes to the law, wearing Google Glass while watching a movie is taken more seriously than wearing the gadget while driving.

For those in the dark, Google Glass is a wearable mini computer with a heads-up display. It’s very cool, even if you do look like an idiot wearing it. Importantly, Glass shares many of the same functions as a mobile phone.

Which is why - at a cinema in Columbus, Ohio - a man watching the dreadful Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit while wearing Glass, was approached by a federal agent who snatched the gadget from his face and ejected him from the venue.

Outside, there were between five and 10 officers and agents who allegedly questioned the man for more than three hours, on the premise that he was illegally recording the movie.

Now, while some are saying that the victim was stupid for bringing a recording device into a movie theatre, they seem to be forgetting about our omnipresent mobile phones, which are just as capable of recording video.

On top of this, the man’s Google Glass was a prescription unit (so he needed it on to see the movie). Yeah, perhaps he could have worn other glasses, but why should he? Especially as he had shut the device off in advance, in the hope of avoiding any problems.

Ultimately, the man was released, but not before a few hours of interrogation. However, he was given two free movie tickets to make up for the inconvenience, so that’s makes it all okay. Right?

As wearable tech becomes more prevalent, you can bet there’ll be a lot more stories like this popping up.

There have been various attempts to remake cult sci-fi flick Barbarella for more than 20 years. But, even with some of the projects having names like Robert Rodriguez attached as director and Drew Barrymore attached as star, nothing happened.

Then some bright spark had the idea to aim for TV instead, and things started moving very quickly.

Drive’s Nicolas Winding Refn came aboard as producer while Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade signed on for script duty.

And now, the camp classic is even closer to becoming reality, with the news that Amazon Studios has picked up the pilot.

Amazon has been trying to make a name for itself in the world of original stream content for a while, but Netflix-like success has so far eluded the online retail giant. Now though, Barbarella will be among the next series pilot episodes fighting for the attention of Amazon Prime members, who will score the shows and help decide their fates.

Gaumont International Television has the rights, and is now looking to find a show-runner who can handle the series should the pilot succeed.

With Amazon and Netflix pouring serious money into producing and streaming original TV shows, and sports behemoths like the UFC and WWE offering their content up digitally for a dirt-cheap fee, it’s an exciting time for television.

Cinema needs to play catch-up, and fast.

Just hours after last week’s column (where I talked about someone leaking the script to Tarantino’s new film, The Hateful Eight) went to press, it was reported that Quentin was so furious about the leak he decided to can the movie altogether.

According to the director, just six people saw the script, and he’s now rabidly trying to find out who spilled the beans.

Among those six people, are Django Unchained producer Reggie Hudlin; an unnamed agent that Hudlin let read it, but who didn’t leave with a copy; and the actors Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, and Tim Roth.

Tarantino says he’s certain it wasn’t Roth and that “it’s got to be either the agents of Dern or Madsen”.

Maybe we’ll find out, maybe we won’t, but in the meantime, Tarantino is mimicking teachers everywhere by punishing everyone.

It’s easy to understand why Tarantino’s upset. The Hateful Eight script was unfinished so hadn’t received the usual polish, and he shared it with six people he thought he could trust. He said: “I give it out to six people, and if I can’t trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it.”

But that’s not the end of the story. Tarantino has now filed a lawsuit against the website Defamer, after it posted a link to all 146 pages of the leaked script.

It’s a bit of a strange one, because when the leak first happened, Tarantino said: “I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts [the script], gets it and reviews it on the net,” however, in this case he feels “there was nothing newsworthy or journalistic about [Defamer’s owner] Gawker Media facilitating and encouraging the public’s violation of Plaintiff’s copyright in the screenplay.”

If this goes to trial, it’s a case that should have a lot of website owners sitting up and paying attention. For while Defamer itself didn’t actually host the screenplay, the lawsuit censures the site for the way it “brazenly encourages” its readers to “enjoy” it through a “conveniently anonymous URL”.