Tom Arnold and C. Thomas Howell headline this family-friendly tale of a Sol Cal kid who must train his dog for apartment living after his dad gets a job offer in New York City, but finds the process interrupted by a nefarious dognapper intent on abducting his four-legged friend.
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal. The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe.
Dixie is a 13-year-old girl, unhappy with her life: five years ago her mother divorced from her father, a coroner, and in her college she is considered weird due to her gothic aspect. One night, Dixie suffers an accident when a tree crashes against her during a storm. Dixie wakes up later in the middle of a cemetery, turned in a zombie. With the help of Isis, an Egyptian mummy, and Gonner, a pirate zombie, Dixie tries to return to life, looking for Vitriol, a strange man who roams by the forest close to the cemetery. However, her search is followed by Negrida, an evil zombie witch who wants the Azoth, a mystical item which, according to the legend, will open the portal between the living world and the dead realm, giving Negrida the chance to accomplish her evil plans to invade the living world with her zombie armies.
This is an enchanting new animated special that you’ll have to see! Truly a joy to watch. How refreshing it is to see that someone is not afraid to show what Christmas is all about. Giving and not taking. For those of you looking to add a new film to your Holiday movie tradition, Christmas Is Here Again is an ideal choice for families, children and even for Scrooges!
When the evil Krad steals Santa’s toy bag he crushes the holiday spirit- and over time, the world’s children forget all about Christmas. Now, a wide-eyed orphan and her band of friends will embark on the polar adventure of a lifetime as they try to stop Krad from destroying Christmas once and for all! Featuring an all-star cast, Christmas Is Here Again is a heartwarming animated odyssey in the spirit of Frosty the Snowman and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Following a prologue set in war-torn former Yugoslavia, the film follows several different Christmas celebrations in the small Norwegian town of Skogli. Paul is a thirty-three-year-old laborer who marches into his doctor’s office demanding a prescription, then proceeds to lay bare all his woes. The doctor is beleaguered by his own marital and financial difficulties (he’s left his upset wife to work emergency calls on Christmas Eve). There’s also an elderly man preparing an esoteric ritual, a vagrant who runs into an old flame, a middle-aged couple in the throes of passion, a boy hopelessly in love with his Muslim neighbor and a young émigré couple whose car breaks down as the woman goes into labor.
When successful attorney, Mitch Bright (Daniel Baldwin), returns home after more than 20 years to the small town of Trapper Falls, Alaska he runs into his old high schools rivals: the Reed brothers, Dan (Ted McGinley) and Greg (Brad Stein). Dan is building a new platform for the town’s traditional nativity scene, but he is the mayor of the town, the platform is being built with city money, and it’s on city property. To top things off: Dan is even married to Kristen (Nancy Stafford) the girl both Dan and Mitch liked in high school. The first thing Mitch does is file a legal injunction against the nativity citing separation of church and state. The second thing he does is decide to run for mayor against his main rival Dan; Dan has been the mayor for years. Mitch accuses Dan of forcing his Christianity upon the entire town, then Mitch goes on a rant about the arrogance and hypocrisy of all Christians.
This film is one of the best adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic I had ever seen. The classic tale becomes a visually stunning animation starring the voice talents of Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow and Beth Winslet. This animated adaptation retains the essence of the timeless tale while introducing some fresh interpretations.
The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by renowned novelist Dickens. As he begins his ‘story of ghosts’ a woman in the audience screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that this is appropriate since his story begins with a mouse. At this point the story turns into the animated version and Dickens explains that the mouse, named Gabriel, carries a glimmer of hope amidst the glaring co-existence of rich and poor in the streets of London. Throughout the subsequent unfolding of the well-known story Gabriel acts as a miniature Greek chorus, providing younger members of the audience with a point of entry into the story and, in the case of the potentially frightening elements (the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future), a place of refuge.
Playing with Fire (Laro sa Baga) features a protagonist whose identity is characterized primarily by his sexuality. Early on, Ding develops an infatuation for his godmother/ surrogate parent Carmen. Realizing the futility of his infatuation, he falls for Dee, Carmen’s adopted daughter. Before anything else develops between them, Carmen finds a way to seperate the two. Growing up, Ding seeks out Dee for a second time and they fall for one another. But their affair is short-lived, as the people surrounding them orchestrate to seperate them – permanently this time.
Admit it. You’re addicted to your BlackBerry. That’s okay. Most users are, and this book is just going to make it worse. Now you’ll discover how to use your BlackBerry to retrieve documents, weather forecasts, and Web information; use it as a word processor or drawing tool; even control your computer over a network with it. And we haven’t even gotten to the way-out stuff. Tweaks, tricks, and add-on apps to customize your BlackBerry–plus Java code for even cooler hacks.
Finally having conquered her stage fright and tired of critics suggesting she could not actually sing and that her high notes were synthesized creations in the studio, Carey booked an appearance on the television show MTV Unplugged. The arrangements of the songs were different from the versions created in the studio, because MTV Unplugged involved the use of acoustic instruments only. Carey’s whistle register workout on the opening number, “Emotions”, brought cheers from the audience and convinced any skeptics that her vocal abilities were real. After the program aired, Carey’s cover version of The Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” (1970), performed as a duet with backing singer Trey Lorenz, was released as a single due to high demand and topped the U.S. charts.
