Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Trailer)

Here's a trailer for the action adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It's based on a video game and comes out in May.

Mashable

If you like technology, Mashable can't be beat. The site features tech news from different people. Their stories cover business, viral videos, and a wide variety of different topics. If you're an avid Twitterer, they have lists of people to follow, like comedians and authors. Their "Spark of Genius" series spotlights interesting Internet startups. While their pages do take a while to load, Mashable has something for everyone. One question: How did the name come about?

http://www.mashable.com/

New Movies for Friday, December 11th, 2009

Both of these movies are in limited release; they may go into wide release at some other date.

• Invictus. Genre: Sports/Drama. Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) recruits the captain of a rugby team (Matt Damon) to reunite the nation through sports. Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on a true story. PG-13 for brief strong language.
• The Lovely Bones. Genre: Drama/Adaptation. When Susie Salmon is murdered, she watches her family from heaven. When she realizes the killer is still at large, she puts it upon herself to do something.  PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language.

Here are the movies' official websites.

Invictus
The Lovely Bones


 

Ratatouille: "Your Friend the Rat"

This is a short film that comes with the DVD of the Pixar movie Ratatouille. At 11 minutes long, it's Pixar's longest short, in which Remy and Emile (the two rats from the film) teach us about the history of rats and try to tell us to make peace with their kind.


Watch Ratatouille - Your Friend the Rat in Animation  

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Note: The other videos in the link above may or may not be family-friendly.

Babies (Trailer)

Here's a trailer for the documentary Babies, which explores one year of four different babies in four different places around the world.

New Movies for Friday, December 4th, 2009

• Armored. Genre: Action. A man (Columbus Short) who works at an armored-truck company is on the verge of foreclosure, so the rest of his group try to steal the 42 million they're about to transport. PG-13 for sequences of intense violence, some disturbing images and brief strong language.
• Brothers. Genre: Drama/War. When a Marine (Tobey Maguire) is proclaimed dead, his black-sheep brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes care of his nieces and the man's widow, but they are shocked when the bitter war hero returns home. R.
• Up in the Air. Genre: Drama/Comedy. A downsizing expert (George Clooney) has a plan to earn 10,000,000 frequent-flier miles, but his plan is set aside when he meets the woman of his dreams.  
  R for language and some sexual content.
  
• Everybody's Fine. Genre: Drama/Comedy. When his family says they can't come for the holidays and won't tell him why, a family man (Robert De Niro) surprises them by visiting.  PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language.
  

Those are all the movies for this week. Here are their official websites.

Armored   
Brothers
Up in the Air
Everybody's Fine

The Spy Next Door (Trailer)

Sorry if there's only a few posts this Thanksgiving week.

There isn't really much to post, so I think I'll just post this. The Spy Next Door is a family/comedy/Occupation Transformation film about a spy whose occupation is transformed into...a babysitter. Sigh.

New Movies for Friday, November 25th, 2009

This week: working with Orson Welles, stay away from the ninja assassin, a hand-drawn fantasy, surviving the apocalypse, and a good ol' babysitting disaster movie.

• Me and Orson Welles. Genre: Drama. Starring: Zac Efron. A young man is picked by Orson Welles to play Julius Caesar in his big production. PG-13 for sexual references and smoking.
• Ninja Assassin. Genre: Action. Starring: Rain. The assassin Raizo is taken and trained to become a ninja by a secret organization known as the Ozunu Clan, but when one of his friends is murdered, he attempts to exact his revenge against the group. R for strong bloody stylized violence throughout, and language.
• The Princess and the Frog. Genre: Family/Animated/Fantasy/Musical. In Disney's return to hand-drawn animation, a young princess kisses a frog to turn him back into a prince, but she ends up turning into a frog as well. G.
• The Road. Genre: Post-Apocalyptic. Starring Viggo Mortensen. In what is almost like the spiritual sequel to 2012, a man and his son must face danger as they traverse the post-apocalyptic land looking for shelter. R for some violence, disturbing images and language.
• (Sigh.) Old Dogs. Genre: Family/Comedy/Disaster. Starring Robin Williams and John Travolta. Two guys who are about to pull off a major business deal suddenly find themselves having to care for 7-year-old children (good luck with that) and disastrous and "inspiring" events ensue. Why did this have to be Bernie Mac's last film? PG for some mild rude humor
  
  

And those are the movies for this week. Here are their official websites.

Me and Orson Welles
Ninja Assassin
The Princess and the Frog
The Road
Old Dogs

Oceans (Trailer)

Here we have the trailer for Oceans, the second nature film from the Disneynature label (they gave us Earth a while back). This time the film just focuses on the five oceans of the planet and the creatures that inhabit them. The movie comes out in 2010.



I hope this one will be good. I liked Earth , but then it kinda turned out to be just a rehash of some scenes from the Discovery Channel hit series Planet Earth.

Pinnacle VideoSpin

I found this in an issue of PC World magazine.

Before you go to the computer store to buy a video editor, wait. Pinnacle VideoSpin, a freebie, might be all you need. The application is a little confusing, so here's an explanation.

Here are the three main components.

1. The Album. This is where you select your photos and videos.
2. The Player, where you can preview your selected video clip.
3. The Timeline. You can drag your media here to start creating your movie.

There are many fun and creative editing tools to choose from. You can pick transitions to nicely segway into your next video. Title templates can go at the beginning or end of your video. There is also a nice library of sound effects.
The one thing Pinnacle VideoStudio doesn't have, compared to for-pay video editing programs, is video effects. They're things that you can apply at a certain point in your video to invert the colors or make it black-and-white, to name a few. Also, you can't resize the app, and if you want to burn a disc, you're out of luck. But if you don't want to pay a ton of money on a video-editing program, VideoSpin might do the trick.

http://www.videospin.com/