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Are You a Bedroom TV Watcher?
Tired Of Straining To See Your TV Or Maneuvering Around Your TV?
Consider End Of Bed TV Lifts For Your Home!
Follow These Helpful Tips When Purchasing Pop Up TV Cabinets And TV Lifts
Do you enjoy watching television in your bedroom? If you are like most people,
watching the nightly news or a movie before you go to bed may be something that
relaxes you before drifting off to sleep. But, do you really have the space for
a television in your room? Even if you do have the space, you simply may not
like the way a television looks in your bedroom.
Whatever your reason for wanting your television to be tucked away safely out of
sight, you will be glad to know that there are many options available to those
who don't want to look at their television when it is not in use.
From end of bed TV lifts to pop up TV cabinets, hiding your television away is
easier and less expensive today than ever before.
Of course, when selecting the TV cabinet or lift that works best for you, there
are many things you need to take into consideration. Some of these include...
The weight capacity of the lift, as you want to make certain the lift can handle
the television you will be placing
The type of control options that are available - features allowing TV lifts to
swivel and the type of remote control used with a lift are important
considerations
The length of the warranty and the items covered by the warranty - ideally, your
warranty should cover your lift for one year and should cover both motor and
electrical components
Whether you are looking for a TV lift for the end of your bed or you are
interested in pop up TV cabinets that can be placed anywhere in your bedroom, it
is essential to buy from a quality company that has an established reputation in
the industry.
If you know someone who has purchased TV lifts that swivel or a television
cabinet, it is always a good idea to ask that person about his or her
experience. After all, if someone you know has had positive experiences with a
particular company, chances are pretty good that you will enjoy a good
experience as well.
If you don't know someone who has purchased a swivel or lift, try performing
some Internet research - you'll be amazed what you can find online! You might
even ask the company directly for further information and testimonials from past
customers to help you select the company and products that are right for you.
The bottom line is that installing end of bed TV lifts or other types of
television cabinets can make your television viewing experience far more
enjoyable while keeping your bedroom looking great. Before you buy, make sure
you carefully research your options so you will indeed be delighted by the
results.
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Urban Movies Continue To Rise
By: Sid Kali
Urban movies continue to grow in popularity. This can be seen in the exploding
direct to video market where urban movies reign supreme. The rising quality of
independent urban movies has made them much more attractive to DVD consumers.
Some talented film directors behind this urban movement are Charles Dutton,
Damon Dash, Sid Kali, Hype Williams, John Singleton, Dale Stelly, Mike O'Dea and
Quentin Tarantino.
The diversity of the urban genre continues to grow because the storylines are
connecting with a larger audience by going beyond what you would expect to see
in an urban movie. Filmmakers are pushing the complexity and overall look of the
urban genre to new levels.
Exploring the urban landscape and culture makes for entertaining films that
offer viewers a look into a slice of americana they might not otherwise
experience. Collaborating with dedicated individuals that work in front of the
camera and behind the scenes to create quality urban movies has always been a
life goal of Director Sid Kali.
Sid Kali made his directorial debut with the urban feature "Consignment". The
spirit of independent filmmaking came together. We felt "Consignment" was best
served highlighting a Latino and Black perspective of the events that were going
to unfold in the film.
The plot centers around a Virginia Beach drug dealer that runs into trouble and
has to lay low in Southern California. This being the movies all the problems
that come with power, drug money, fast women, and jealous rivals has to come
out. It was nice to be able to mix in the subtle cultural differences between
the two places.
This West Coast and East Coast mix worked out because Co-Producer and Editor Tim
Beachum had lived in Ohio, Detroit , and Virginia Beach during his years. While
Sid Kali has only lived in Southern California his entire life. By working
together they were able to blend these influences together. "Consignment" is
being released on DVD November 2007 by Maverick Entertainment Group, Inc.
Support independent film and add this feature to your DVD collection.
An important aspect of making an urban movie is keeping it authentic. At the
independent level budgets are tighter, so it helps if you write a script that
has elements you can realistically translate from the page to the screen. The
basic idea is to write a script that you can shoot using your resources. The
cool thing with urban movies are they lend themselves to many more backdrops
than before.
It used to be when you attached the word urban to a film the story had to take
place in the inner city. That's changing as urban culture and style is moving
beyond those pervious boundaries. This makes for an exciting time to shoot urban
movies.
The word "crime drama" is used to describe films like "Training Day", "The
Departed", "Heat" and 'Scarface'. To some movie buffs these are urban
masterpieces done by highly talented and respected filmmakers at the top of
their creative game. This shows the diversity of the urban genre.
After the experience of shooting "Consignment". Slice Of Americana Films wanted
to expand their take on the urban genre with "In With Thieves". This urban movie
brings together a unique blend of creative elements.
"In With Thieves" features a Cuban cartel that practices their own version of
Santeria, an African based crime group that deals in blood diamonds, ruthless
Albanian gangsters, and an American burglary crew that is Latino, Black, and
Irish.
This unique blend of creative and visual elements we felt would make for a
provocative urban film. The inspiration was to show that urban stories can have
global influences.
Career criminal Jack McGee (Tony Napoli) is out of prison facing hard times. His
trophy wife Karen (Jennifer Day) spent all the money they had stashed away and
found time to fall in love with another man. Max (Edward Gusts) his junkie
brother-in-law, made enemies with the Albanian Mafia leaving Jack to hold the
bag on a large debt. The release date for Jack insn't a surprise to anyone who
runs in criminal circles. Former gang member turned burglar Hector Garcia
(Walter Pagan) and street huslter Frank Washington (Jerome A. Hawkins) are his
partners in crime. When Jack was running the robbery crew they were flush with
cash. After he went inside the scores dried up. Now it's time for them to
reconnect and go back to work.
Anton (Jayson Matthews) a savvy and vicious Albanian boss, has his trusted
solider Vicktor (Marek Matousek) carry out a brutal act of violence to send a
message to Jack. The message is clear to Jack. Pay the debt or everyone close to
him will be murdered. Over friendly welcome home drinks Jack asks Hector and
Frank to come through on the money he needs to pay off Anton. They both refuse
his request turning the reunion bitter and bringing some old wounds to the
surface.
Karen halfway walks back into Jack's life pushing him into a frantic mix of
anger, confusion, and dark alcohol fueled thoughts. She's still involved with
the other man. Adding to his problems is a gunpoint reminder that he has a short
time to pay his debt or Karen will be killed. Pressed he hooks back up with
Hector and Frank to steal the money he needs to pay Anton. They come up short.
He falls into a heated sexual affair with contract killer Rita Desouza (Arnita
Champion) to numb his pain. Sex turns to conspiracy when she lays out a plan to
have her husband ripped-off during a 5 million dollar diamond deal. Her husband
is ruthless Cuban kingpin David Desouza (Art Parga). He's heavily into his own
version of Santeria and the blood diamond market. He depends on Rita and his
most bloodthirsty enforcer Voodoo (Jesse James Youngblood) took keep people in
line.
Jack brings in Hector and Frank to help him pull off the robbery. Out of time on
his debt he's forced to let Anton in on the job for a large cut of the take.
They crash in on illegal blood diamond deal between a Cuban cartel and an
African based crime syndicate headed by an ambitious upstart known as Omar (Keion
Adams).
The rip-off erupts into deadly violence. This sets off a frenzy of
double-crosses and brazen executions that entwine everyone in a bloody conflict
that plays out to an explosive ending. Friendship, loyalty, and love run short
in a world of greed.
The trailer can be viewed on YouTube.Com, Yahoo Videos, Google Videos,
AtomFilms.Com, and iFilm.Com
"In With Thieves" is in the final stages of post-production and is being
represented to interested distributors by Mark Steven Bosko the author of "The
Complete Independent Movie Marketing Handbook". A must read for independent
filmmakers that want practical advice on the business. While filmmaking is an
art you should be prepared for the harsh realities of the business side. All
filmmakers take lumps coming up through the game.
Urban movies will continue to rise as talented filmmakers show their passion for
making movies with an independent heart. Slice Of Americana Films has started
pre-production for their third urban movie titled "Stash Spot". Rival criminals
fight to find a fortune in cash ripped-off during a drug deal gone bad. When the
stick-up artists responsible turn up dead, a bloodbath erupts as each vicious
criminal makes their ruthless play to locate the money.
You always learn things with each film you produce. Hopefully filmmakers will
continue to push the urban genre beyond what it is now.
* Quick and dirty tips if you're going to produce your own urban movie:
(* does not apply to filmmakers that have Hollywood connections or access to big
money)
Avoid writing an amazing scene like the shoot-out in 'Heat' if you can't pull it
off.
Write realistic locations into your script that you have shooting access to.
Action scenes are always going to take longer to light and shoot than talking
head scenes.
Make sure your dialogue is authentic to the culture of the street. If you're
writing your own script the right words will cost you nothing.
Wardrobe can't make Corey Feldman (nothing against The Corey) a Latino gangster
by having him wear a bandanna and a flannel shirt buttoned only at the top. You
see that type of phony wardrobe in some really bad urban movies.
Nothing will go as planned.
Leave your ego behind.
Whatever happens keep the show rolling.
Author Bio
Slice Of Americana Films Slice Of Americana Films was formed in 2005 by Sid Kali
to produce quality urban movies.
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Mother and Child (New Movie Review)
Mother and Child (Rodrigo Garcia, 2010) - God has a plan. Innocent people will
die and lives will be tragically twisted, but if you manage to survive long
enough He will make His plan known to you, and it will be good. That is the
pious, quaint tone of this sentimental lecture in "what's most important in
life" that is too naive and well-intended to rise to the level of actually being
offensive.
The film interweaves three storylines. Annette Bening is a hardworking nurse, a
single older woman taking care of her dying mother. She is prickly and proud,
emotionally unavailable to others because she didn't get enough love from her
mother growing up. We find this out in a very matter-of-fact manner, as
everything negative in this film is simplistically explained as the result of
some failure to live a righteous life. A classic sense of Catholic guilt weighs
heavily on this film. Garcia's world is filtered through the lens of religious
wish-fulfillment. People are genuine and well-meaning. The worst quality these
characters demonstrate is that they sometimes change their minds about things.
Garcia proceeds to lecture us on morality, so his naivete makes this a tenuous
proposition to say the least.
Naomi Watts plays a successful and driven lawyer, the only evidence of which
appears in expository dialogue, as Garcia is too lazy to write any scenes of her
actually working. She soon seduces her older, African-American boss (Samuel L.
Jackson) as well as the male half of the couple next door. She is portrayed as
constantly running from commitment and, God forbid, actually seems to enjoy
casual sex on her own terms, so of course Garcia punishes her for these grave
misdeeds. Careerism and sex out of wedlock are portrayed as psychological
hangups, the effect of not having enough down-home family values. In this
respect, Mother and Child is a big step backward when seen from a feminist
standpoint.
Rounding out the leads is Kerry Washington, overacting in her portrayal of a
young woman attempting to adopt a child, because she can't get pregnant by her
husband. We follow the complicated relationship she develops with the birth
mother, from whom she must win approval. Based on the evidence in this film,
adoption appears to be an inhumane and cruel institution bent on separating
children from their mothers. If this is the outlook on adoption, you can imagine
how the film deals with even the suggestion of abortion.
The script is full of unnatural, didactic lines that all seem to blend together.
The acting performances are all distinct, but the words themselves all read like
they are being spoken by the same person, which is a classic screenwriting
misstep. Mr. Garcia is a better director than he is a writer. Side characters
are introduced merely so the leads can learn a lesson about their own lives.
There is a plentitude of weepy, joyous moments, and they are saccharine enough
to make you sick, or at least to lodge your eyeballs permanently to the upper
lids.
Now, Garcia is no woman-hater. His films usually put the weight of their stories
on the shoulders of women. In Nine Lives, he interwove nine stories but kept
them separate. Here, the stories seem separate at first, and then come together
like pieces of a puzzle, different strands of the same story. The feeling we
come away with is that everything has a purpose and we are God's perfect
creations, despite all our suffering. I fear this all-encompassing
point-of-view, because it encourages one to accept a particular set of ancient
teachings as the Word, and discourages thinking that is independent of this
religious doctrine. It offends me as a thinker. Anything so doctrinaire is
oversimplified. That the film comes across as reactionary in regards to how it
views the sex lives of single women is more of an indictment of the simplistic
worldview the film has overall as opposed to any anti-feminine impulse.
Nevertheless, the world of Mother and Child is fantasyland.
Maxwell Anderson is an avid film watcher and blogger. He is also a freelance
assistant video editor in New York City. You can contact him through his blog
Ecstatic Text: http://ecstatictext.blogspot.com
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Do We Want to Be Celebrities?
If I'm thinking of my childhood, I surely remember the time when I was dreaming
about being an actress or a singer, maybe a ballet dancer. I was sure that I
will be a beautiful lady, I will be very talented, ambitious and everybody will
admire me.
I can tell you that my dream was to be a celebrity, and I'm sure that I wasn't
the only one. In time I realized that celebrity life is not just about luxury,
beauty and fashion, but hard work, publicity and giving up a lot of things which
may normally take part of everybody's life.
The first and most important thing that made me change my mind was the fact that
you won't be able to live a normal private life. Every detail regarding you and
what you do is published in every newspaper, every web page. I was thrilled, I
couldn't see myself in such a situation. But maybe it depends on your
personality. Anyway, you should be strong enough!
Somehow it seems to be normal that once you are a famous person, people will
start to discuss about you, because everybody wants to be like you.
Unfortunately there are people who simply enjoy destroying you.
Starting from this idea the whole thing is getting complicated. You should
create an image of a perfect person both physically and psychically.
As we all experienced at least once, people are judging by appearance. This is
why you won't be allowed to make mistakes when you're choosing your outfit, you
should have your hair and makeup done and keep your body fit all the time, even
enhance your look in time. But then... where will your real personality get?
Once famous, you can easily get rich, and then you can easily lose your mind.
This is the moment when dramatically changes appear and typical celebrity life
is started. Well, who wouldn't like to spend money without taking count of them?
I would, but not if it will cost my reputation.
I'm still thinking about all these situations, but I can't decide whether if I'm
sorry or not that I didn't become a celebrity. What do you think? Read about
celebrity gossip and find more information about life psychology on the
celebrity search engine.
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Film Review - Knight and Day (2010)
BOTTOM LINE: "Knight And Day" has an intriguing take on an old formula and a
solid start, but unfortunately turns in to stupidity and silliness by the
climax, and its star leads share virtually no chemistry whatsoever.
THE GOOD: The best way to describe this film is to say it is a James Bond film
told from the point of view of the Bond girl. In this way, "Knight and Day"
starts off in a good place. Through a seemingly chance meeting at an airport,
June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is pulled in to a deadly chase for secret agent Roy
Miller (Tom Cruise) when the two of them are put together on the same flight. As
June realises that Roy is a force to be reckoned with, the pair bicker and fight
their way through a haze of gun fire and tricky situations, with June unable to
figure out who the bad guy really is. The first thirty minutes of the film are
perhaps the best, with Tom Cruise actually portraying the double-sided nature of
his character quite well, and Cameron Diaz doing her usual ditzy blonde routine.
Many of the action sequences are well realised, particularly the motorcycle
chase in Spain. "Knight and Day" has been created as a piece of fun popcorn
entertainment, with two likeable leads and the usual mayhem.
THE BAD: Although starting in a good place, "Knight and Day" quickly degenerates
in to stupidity and silliness, with a good dose of bad computer generated
special effects thrown in. There is not one particular moment that sets it off,
but rather a steady downhill slide, starting with a poorly realised flight crash
scene, to a running of the bulls scene (with computer bulls), to the completely
out of place touch of June becoming Roy's saviour and getting him out of harm's
way at the end of the film. How such a professional secret agent in Miller could
allow a clutzy woman like June follow him without being noticed in a crucial
stage in the film, or how June could have the knowledge of getting Miller out of
hospital and escaping the clutches of the intelligence agencies is beyond belief
to the point of being laughable, despite being a punctuation mark for the way
their relationship started. All of this may have been okay if Cruise and Diaz
actually had any chemistry together but they do not. "Knight and Day" is
ultimately stupid; yet another Hollywood film that takes a decent idea, or a
riff on a decent idea, and turns it in to mass-produced popcorn to appeal to
those with short attention spans.
For the original review, follow this link:
http://www.allaboutmovies.net/-filmreviewknightandday.htm
Todd Murphy is a staff reviewer at the film/DVD review web site,
http://www.allaboutmovies.net - for all the latest
reviews on the newest releases.
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