You’d love to chip in, but you’re not carring any cash. This year, the Salvation Army has the  perfect solution. Just hand the bell-ringer your credit or debit card and he’ll swipe in your generous donation and hand you a receipt.

Long time friends John Travolta and Robin Williams play well off each other and appear to be having a great time filming Old Dogs. Slapstick routines run rampant and if a gag  gets a laugh, expect to see it repeated at least three more times.

Surprise those on your gift list by disguising your presents in Decoy Gift Boxes from The Onion.  The price is right (four for $23) and the reactions are, you guessed it, priceless. For example real-looking fake items like a USB-powered toaster will mislead even savvy recipients. Go ahead, spoil someone’s expectations,  if only for a few minutes.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) makes its official home entertainment debut on December 8, 2009. Fans around the globe look for ward to possessing their own copy of this pivotal chapter in the lives of Harry, Hermione and Ron and their stint at Hogwarts.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (PG-13) (2009) Teen girls across the nation are camped out in the lobbies of movie theaters anxiously awaiting a showing of New Moon. With the largest ticket pre-sale total in history, this film is raking in money.  Some of the young ladies are Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) fans (easily spotted, wearing black [...]

Very nice audio-based Flash site.  Great design and execution.  CHECK IT OUT

If you are “late for this very important date,” do not blame us. The highly anticipated opening of Alice in Wonderland is currently slated for March 5, 2010. Expect to see Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham-Carter and Crispen Glover at their fairytale best.

Great design and Flash work from Cubic Studio.  Really fun site navigation and features, not to mention clean and interesting graphics.  CHECK IT OUT

FARSCAPE: THE COMPLETE SERIES MEGASET
A & E brings you all four seasons of this cult classic assembled in one gigantic 25-disc set, together with over 15 hours of bonus materials can now be yours. This epic tale of Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) who crosses a thousand galaxies ran on television from 1999-2003 [...]

This is great. A senior Apple Executive has extend his home’s theme, “bachelor-pad-cum-art-gallery” into his backyard. He’s added a deck on flat ground to inspire disorienting effects, specifically—he hopes you vomit. Check it out HERE.

Cheri (R) (2009) starring Michelle Pfeiffer sheds new light on the concept of cougars. They have been around for a long time; they just went by different terms in different times.
Set just prior to World War I in (where else?) Paris, this provocative tale of a well-seasoned courtesan and her young paramour will inspire lovers [...]

Fantastic Mr. Fox is an example of stop motion animation at its very finest. Director Wes Anderson leaves no stone unturned and no whisker unbent in this magical video interpretation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book of the same title. The story, the talent and the choice of old-school animation produces the perfect entertainment blend for [...]

The year was 1966 and the U.S. was reeling from the British Invasion of rock music that was pouring from transistor radios.

Random Good Stuff has just the thing to exorcise unwanted or extended-stay visitors from your home. The gimmick is a glow-in-the-dark mirror that employs an eco-friendly, photo luminescent material that glows eerily when the lights are turned off.

2012 (PG-13) (2009) Word on the street has it that it took about $250 million dollars for writer/director Roland Emmerich to “almost end” the world.

If you think you see a spinning effect and hear a swishing sound, that’s just Paranornal Activity running box office circles around this very weak excuse for a “true tale” of alien abductions. The only thing documented seems to be that in the year 2000, in Nome, Alaska, there were several unsolved cases of missing persons. No [...]

Here’s an article from Discovery News naming and deflating the top 2012 doomsday scenarios.
Interesting. Read it HERE.

Great execution and content.  CHECK IT OUT

2012 is just another reason to stick with the Gregorian calendar and steer away from the Long Count calendar used by the ancient Mayans. 

Kseniya Simonova’s artistic performance is mesmerizing. Watch as she creates her interpretation of Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
If you enjoy Ukrainian music, this instrumental band, “Radium Karmara,” will delight you. It features a hauntingly beautiful violin that enhances the artist’s visual performance.
Song at the end: “Nothing Else Matters – Apocalypitca” (originally by [...]

When selling  real estate, knowledge of the presence of evil forces should be required in the disclosure statement. Had it been so, we may never have been told the haunting tale of Dark Mirror in which Deborah Martin (Lisa Vidal) sees horrible visions of an alternate universe, or flashes of her own insanity, lurking behind the mirrors of her house.

Here’s a short animation by George Thomson. It’s about the perception of time, and how it’s only real to us because things, we grow old. At least that was my take on it, but then again I don’t know anything.
Yes, this video is dark and definitely worth watching. Check it out HERE.

So advanced is the cutting-edge technology used in filming Avatar that director James Cameron had to wait 14 years to see his dream come to fruition. Read the latest comments directly from the Fox Studio reps.

I love this style—implementing the exactness of something into its visual design. It’s clever, it’s raw, and it’s by default, minimalist. Reminds me of an ongoing tattoo joke between my friend and I—to get a tattoo of the word ‘tattoo’.

I don’t believe knowing these Google tidbits will benefit me in the future, but nonetheless—interesting.
From Neatorama, check it out HERE.

Barcodes. The infamous duality of a double-edged limbo stick. For some people it’s their minor ticket in attaining material glee. For others it’s the face on the bag of socio-political beliefs they carry. But most, like myself straddle the barcode fence—and thus, for it a new median of space is created. It’s called increasingly trendy [...]

Avatar Trailer and TV Spots to Air on Fox Sunday
On November 1, one of the biggest sports days of the year(with key NFL match-ups + Game 4 of the World Series), the Avatar trailer will be shown on the world’s largest video display — Cowboy Stadium’s Diamond Vision Screen – while millions of football fans [...]

The tenth triumph (including four Academy Award ® winners) in the Disney/ Pixar marriage of talents Up has already proven itself at the box office and now embarks on its home entertainment blitz. One of its strong points is its ability to appeal to the audience on so many different levels and to several age [...]

Director Robert Zemenckis (Disney’s 2009  A Christmas Carol) confirms that the original screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) fame are working on a sequel. Yes, it’s very likely that Jessica Rabbit will return to inspire a whole generation of little boys with the hope of someday meeting a flesh-and-blood [...]

Not the high flying biopic that we had hoped for, but a more than adequate portrayal of the life and times of America’s most famous aviatrix, Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank).

Saw VI has done something that none of the other Saw films has accomplished, added an interesting plot to all of the torture and gore.

The marriage of Microsoft, Fox and Seth MacFarlane is officially over.

The toned-down vampires in this first movie based on author Darren Shan’s series of tales for young adults may not be out to suck your blood, but they would certainly like to suck up your box office dollars. 

If you are bored with the usual Made in Hollywood (or Japan) Halloween slasher movies, try something with a large dose of reality, or at least the impression of reality.

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