HITMAN - David Foster & Friends On HD

HITMAN - David Foster &Friends
After almost four decades in the music business, David Foster -- producer, arranger, songwriter, performer -- is finally ready to talk. In this compelling and outspoken memoir, Foster shares some of his incredible stories: the first time he met Barbra Streisand, as a young session player in Los Angeles; his first of 15 Grammys® for "After the Love Has Gone," Earth, Wind & Fire's memorable hit; the making of Unison, Celine Dion's English-language debut; the challenges he faced on his way to putting the group Chicago back on the charts; his award-winning contribution to Unforgettable: With Love, Natalie Cole's comeback album; those back-to-back recording sessions with Madonna and Michael Jackson; and the incredible chain of events that spawned Whitney Houston's historic blockbuster, "I Will Always Love You."

Foster has worked with superstars of every decade, including:

Celine Dion - Josh Groban - Whitney Houston - Michael Bublé - Barbra Streisand - Andrea Bocelli - Madonna - Michael Jackson - Natalie Cole - George Harrison - Earth, Wind & Fire - *NSYNC - Chicago - Paul McCartney - All-4-One - Katharine McPhee - Toni Braxton - Alice Cooper - Olivia Newton-John - Michael Bolton

...and many more.

From his unique and privileged vantage point, Foster describes the delicate balancing act between artist and producer, offers revealing portraits of some of those artists at work, and shares his secrets for success in the maddeningly fickle music industry.

At its heart, this is the story of a boy with perfect pitch who grew up to become one of the most influential musical forces of our time -- the solid gold hitman who produced the soundtrack of our lives.

New Doc's Da Nang Vietnam HDTV 1080

Da Nang Vietnam HDTV 1080
Đà Nẵng is the largest city in central Vietnam and one of the country’s most important ports. Ringed by mountains on one side and the East Sea on the other, Đà Nẵng has numerous sites of natural beauty and historical interest. Da Nang is the third largest city in Vietnam, after Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi[citation needed], with an area of 1,255.53 km² and a population of 887,069 (figure in 2009) and is estimated to reach one million inhabitants in 2014 [1] Da Nang borders Thua Thien-Hue Province to the north (with Hai Van Pass as the border), Quang Nam Province to the south and west, Bien Dong to the east. It has several white sand beaches with seaside resorts.

New Moon (2009)

New Moon (2009)

The Twilight Saga

I loved the Twilight movie, that's how I started reading the books in the first place. I've read them about ten times each and I still like them. But New Moon's big screen adaptation was a huge let down.

One thing that was improved was that many of the characters actually smiled or laughed naturally when the moment called for it, as opposed to the "I don't crack a smile cause I'm a seriously deadly vampire" routine in Twilight.

I liked the portrayal of Alice, she seemed more like what she should be according to the book, Charlie and I also liked the wolves and the rest of the special effects.

But I couldn't feel the bond between Edward and Bella. I couldn't believe that they loved each other. Hell, I couldn't believe they even liked each other. Even at the end, after their ordeal, after deciding that they would never let each other go, they were frigid. The actors just delivered their lines, they didn't feel them.

The score ranged from awful to non-existent. It seems as though it was not written specifically for New Moon. Carter Burwell's score brings to memory specific scenes in Twilight. This one is an indifferent, generic one, I guess it would fit in whatever movie you threw it in.

However, the most important flaw was that the entire movie seemed very rushed, like it was originally supposed to be much longer but somebody edited it heavily and really, really badly. For example, in an instant we are informed that Edward is going to commit suicide thinking Bella's dead, she drives off with Alice *bang* next thing you know you see a plane in the air, *bang* next thing you know Alice and Bella are already inside the stolen car on their way to Volterra and it carries on like that until the end.

No character development, no bonds between them, no space to breathe, no explanation whatsoever of how things happened or how decisions were made, nothing but a hastily chopped up summary of the book.

Ninja Assassin (2009)

Ninja Assassin (2009)

I think violence is the only necessary word to describe this film.The characters live in a violent world and do violent acts.And I liked it a lot.There are not many Hollywood producers who have the guts to put lots of gratuitous gory action sequences in their final products, and for this reason the Wachowski brothers must be praised.The story is about a boy who is trained to become a very skillful ninja assassin,but after his best friend is killed he decide to leave his family.Years after, he fight against them and is helped by an Europol agent.There are fighting scenes every five minutes,and especially in the second half they keep for a long time,with the hero dealing with dozens of opponents.The plot is weak indeed,but for an action fan,I couldn't ask for more.

Astro Boy (2009)

Astro Boy (2009)
Astro Boy has always been the symbol of the golden era of anime as well as the golden era of American licensing of anime. This movie presents Astro Boy in a slightly new way.

The story for it is rather simple, but doesn't fail in keeping one entertain throughout it's time run. Those who seen the three anime adaptations would already know the origin of Astro Boy's creation. That's still included as well as appearances of a couple of recognizable characters. And a couple of new additions that fit in for this movie.

Now to list the good and bad thing about this movie. The good thing is this movie remains true to the concept and Astro Boy a like. It still takes place in the future where robots and humans live together. As well as robot civil rights which was a common topic in the previous Astro Boy adaptations on robots being questioned whether they should have the same rights as humans or not.

Bad thing is that the movie could of been a whole lot more if the writers made the movie feel more close to the anime with the addition of more characters or have Dr. Elefun & Daddy Walrus have either bigger parts or have at least have the same feel as their anime counterparts. I also think this movie tried too hard in Americanizing it by adding certain human characters that look like they belong in a different movie or the fact that they were trying to make it look more American by having the characters eat pizza instead of tempura.

The die hard fans of Astro Boy will likely to still enjoy this movie. It's not a mirror copy of it's anime counterpart but doesn't fail in being entertaining. To me it's something that will make popcorn taste better while watching it.

Planet 51 (2009)

Planet 51 (2009)

decided to see Planet 51 because I thought it could offer an entertaining tribute to the sci-fi genre.And even though the film offers many references to classics from the genre, I found the humor to be painfully primitive, not to mention its story is so bland, predictable and boring that detracts the solid work of animation, which may not reach the heights of Pixar or DreamWorks, but it still is well done.

This movie has too many generic elements, like for example the subjects about self-improvement and friendship and touches of a forced romance.The direction is absolutely insipid, the voice acting is weak and the humor is extremely irritating.Oh, and we also have to add the unfortunately popular practice of extending trivial events and becoming them into forced action sequences, in a desperate effort to rescue the movie.Co-directors Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad and Marcos Martínez and screenwriter Joe Stillman did not take any risks with this film, and they finished making such an inoffensive product which lacks of any emotion, suspense or humor.It is a shame that the work of many animators was wasted on an uninteresting story based on decrepit formulas.

So, with the exception of the technical aspect, there are not good elements on this horrible animation film.Do not waste your time on this absolutely boring movie.

Hua Mulan (2009)

Hua Mulan (2009)

Hua Mulan is the most famous Chinese folklore. Thus, there are many versions of this classic story. Sad to say, this isn't one of the better ones. Vicki as Mulan was not a wise choice. She doesn't look like the type of responsible, mature girls. She's more of the impulsive wild child like Sun Shang Xiang. Although both Sun and Hua are women fighting in a war, they differ. Sun is royalty who fights with no risk of being discovered she is a girl. Hua is disobeying the capital rule of fighting as a girl. I was so disappointed with mulan. She is no way a drunkard, or desperate lover. Sure, Vicki did well in the fight scenes, but the emotional parts are too boring. Chen Kun can't act. He looks ugly, not as handsome as his character in Painted Skin. The storyline is borderline trash. Vicki masquerading as a servant to get close to Chen Kun? White man Vitash seems to join in the fun somehow. Chen Kun turned out to be a prince. Vicki got discovered so early. None of these is really historically accurate. Sure, you can take some creative liberties, but this is STRETCHING the truth.

The Ugly Truth (2009)

The Ugly Truth (2009)
"It's a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys... I'm playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy?" The Ugly Truth star Katherine Heigl there, talking to 'Vanity Fair' in 2007 about Judd Apatow's 'Knocked Up.'

Fast-forward a couple of years, and stone me, if Heigl's not playing another shrewish, humourless and uptight media-professional, in yet another opposites-attract romantic comedy. Is this her idea of progress? If she's atoning for her early role in 1994's American remake of 'My Father, The Hero', in which her 14-year-old character wears a white, one-piece thong bikini while claiming her dad Gérard Depardieu is actually her lover in order to appear more womanly to boys, then perhaps it is. But right now Heigl's range is proving slightly more limited than John Wayne's, who at least played both a Mongolian *and* an ancient Roman with a Madison County accent.

Heigl plays Abby Richter, a Sacramento breakfast TV show producer, and the kind of frightening valkyrie who background-checks her dates. This glamorous professional remains inexplicably single - until the execs pair her up with shouty shock jock Mike Chadway (a dodgy-accented Gerard Butler) to boost the ratings with his lame 'Men are from Bars, Women Need a Penis' shtick. Chadway's 'Ugly Truth' segment claims to spill the beans about the sexes while advising pent-up women to flick the same. "Men are simple, they cannot be trained! You wanna win a man over, you don't need ten steps, you just need blowjobs!" While women who want 'relationships' are advised to talk dirty, dress like Streetwalker Barbie and "get a StairMaster". Given that Mike has already called Abby a "dog" and a "lesbian", what happens next is frankly extraordinary: the shriekingly strange control freak falls for her neighbour, the young orthopaedic doctor Colin (Eric Winter), and challenges Mike to be her very own Cyrano-in-an-earpiece. And, well, we all know how 'Roxanne' turned out. (Or not: Mike doesn't actually get off with Colin.)

If one were to take a buzzsaw to The Ugly Truth, its arterial spray would drip down the wall to form the coagulated word 'Generic'. Among 37,000 similar rom-coms, it is markedly close to 2001's 'Someone Like You', in which Ashley Judd uses roommate Hugh Jackman's womanising outlook as raw material for her sexist advice column. And then falls in love with him. This lack of any originality whatsoever wouldn't be so insulting if there existed any actual chemistry between the leads; if the supporting cast weren't as slight as snowflakes (wimpy Colin is barely even human); or if, with its trash-mouth, oral-sex gags and casting, it didn't so desperately and transparently want to be a Judd Apatow movie. Just one without the insight. Or soul. Or wit. Or anything. Why is Mike in love with Abby? "Beats the s*** out of me, but I am." And that, boys and girls, is how you tidily dispose of character development when your script ain't worth a fart.

Its leading lady exec-produced this (rarely a promising sign), and so did her mum, but this film seemingly exists only to utterly humiliate Heigl via three farcical set-pieces; the lowlight of which sees her remote-controlled vibrating sex knickers (a gift from Mike, with the honest-to-goodness words "this isn't for you, it's for your bean") being 'accidentally' activated while she's out having dinner with clients. Meg Ryan's got nothing to worry about but Nora Ephron should sue. "Thanks for coming tonight" says Mike. "For dinner. That kind of coming." Sure, we get it. Who wrote these gags, David Brent? Well actually, a trio of women wrote this film (two of them also being the brains behind 'Legally Blonde', 'She's The Man' and 'The House Bunny'), demonstrably proving that chauvinism isn't the sole preserve of one sex.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Errors in geography: The film avoids identifying its setting as either Britain or America. Conveniently, Mr. Fox's species Vulpes vulpes is found in both countries. The human town has some very British details including a round red post box (American would be square and blue), the station wagon has a right-hand drive, and the humans have British accents. (Even if the setting is England, the animals' American accents are permissible as an element of fantasy.) The beaver's species is given as Castor fiber, the Eurasian variety (the American variety is Castor canadensis). However, the wolf's mountain looks more like a place in America or Canada, and more conclusively, there is an American opossum among the animals. There are no native opossums, nor any marsupial relatives, anywhere in Europe, so an opossum cannot be from the same region as Castor fiber. Even more confusing is that on the wackbat-trophy you can read the name "M.K. Silvery-Marmoset", an animal only found on very limited places in Brazil.

[Rec] 2 (2009)

[Rec] 2 (2009)
This is a direct sequel to the surprisingly good "Rec",the story takes place where the other one ended,this time focusing more on a Swat team.

From the very start the movie has the exact same feel as its predecessor.The acting is great,special effects even better.

The story is what will make you eventually hate it or love it even more,because the cause of the infected is eventually explained.Im just gonna say that its quite original.

Its not as creepy as the first movie,but its an excellent and original sequel. As a comparison,Rec2 is to Rec what Aliens is to Alien.

If you loved the first one,its a must see!

BBC South Pacific 2009 HD1080p

BBC South Pacific 2009

One Ocean. 20,000 Islands. A Quarter of The World’s Water.

The extraordinary wildlife, culture and history of this immense, fascinating ocean and its myriad islands are revealed in stunning detail in this acclaimed BBC series.

With its coral reefs, turquoise lagoons and dramatic oceanic atolls, the South Pacific is the archetypal paradise. But from the shores of Hawaii to Easter Island and a thousand tiny remote islands, this ocean holds some of the most bizarre and intriguing surprises on Earth…

The incredible photography and discoveries of this series capture the amazing natural sights of the region: from erupting undersea volcanoes to jewelled tropical reefs and from tiger sharks catching albatross chicks to giant crabs opening coconuts. It reveals how the islands’ isolation has helped evolve flesh-eating caterpillars, vampire bugs with antifreeze in their veins, a strange nocturnal parrot with a mating call like a bull frog and the fascinating monkey-tailed skink.

South Pacific also tells of the people whose ancestors journeyed thousands of miles to the islands. Some acquired new survival techniques such as the palolo worm-harvesting Samoans or the Solomon islanders who fish with spider webs and kites, while others developed bizarre rituals such as the Pentecost land divers who leap from 25-metre wooden scaffolds.

With incredible natural spectacles, dramatic footage and fascinating stories, South Pacific will change the way you view this ocean forever.

Synopsis

20,000 islands, one ocean, a quarter of the world's water. Welcome to the South Pacific. Narrated by Benedict Cumberpatch, SOUTH PACIFIC is the documentary series that explores this fascinating part of the world and the wonderful wildlife that lives there. From Hawaii's coastline to Eastern Island, South Pacific explores underwater volcanoes and jewelled reefs, and showcases species such as tiger sharks and flesh-eating bugs, all captured by the most incredible photography and will change the way you see the ocean forever.

SNP - Alaska and Hawaii Bluray 1080i

SNP - Alaska and Hawaii Bluray 1080i
Denali National Park
Get a touch of the tundra in Alaska s Denali National Park, a land as rugged as it is magnificent. Whether you explore Denali by bus, hike or camp out in the backcountry, or take on Mt. McKinley, the highest moutain in North America, surprises await you at every turn. Breathtaking Blu-rayTM is the best way to experience Denali s spectacular scenery as you ride the Denali Star train, meet the sled dogs of Denali at the Kennels, and take a discovery hike into untamed wilderness much as the first explorers did.

Hawaii s National Parks
Hawai `i Volcanoes and Haleakala National Parks are two of the most extraordinary places on the planet. Witness molten lava bubbling from the earth, catch an awe-inspiring sunrise above the clouds, and take a dip into pools of paradise. Fabulous beaches and romantic coastal drives further reveal the astounding contrasts of this lush land.

First trip - Denali National Park - Alaska's tundra, mountains of McKinley. Traveling by train, sled dogs, and walking.
The second trip - Hawaii National Parks - Marine sunrises, beaches and at the same time the hot lava from active volcanoes.

The Beauty of Snakes on Blu-ray Disc Review By Brandon A. DuHame 1080p

The Beauty of Snakes
There are 15 families and over 2,900 species of snakes in the world. They dwell on every one of our planet's continents except Antarctica, making them one of the most common species in the world. Throughout human history they have been both revered and reviled; appearing as symbols of evil in the Bible and as healers in ancient Greece, where Asclepius, a son of Apollo and god of healing, carried two intertwined on his wand. This symbol can still be found in the form of a caduceus, displayed on ambulances and worn by many doctors today.

Most laymen will know that there are basically two types of snakes, venomous and non-venomous. Neither type is particularly prone to attacking humans, and, in fact, most shy away from human contact as much as possible. Snakebites amongst humans tend to occur when snakes are accidentally stumbled upon or provoked in some way. Human deaths caused by constrictors are even far more rare as only a few of these snakes, such as an anaconda are large enough to kill a human, yet many people are still afraid of these reptilian creatures.Animal Planet's The Beauty of Snakes turns its high definition lens on these creatures and documents every aspect of their existence, from mating, birth and feeding, to the way different species move and their interaction with humans. The brilliant macro-photography of Discovery Channel's camera operators -- perhaps rivaled only by that of the BBC -- captures stunning images of these animals both in the wild and in staged settings. Each aspect of the snakes' condition is examined and explained in brief yet informative segments.

The film is resplendent with memorable images of snakes in motion around the globe: an anaconda takes a leisurely swim in the Amazon rainforest; the feared black mamba slithers on a beach in coastal South Africa; a sidewinder makes its way across the hot desert dunes in Namibia. It's a stunning spectacle of serpents, and a wonderful sight for any fan of nature shows.