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Hmm, why would religious leaders be disturbed by a horror / comedy movie that features sex, large-breasted women in lingerie, plenty of bloodshed, a beheading, and zombies ripping still-beating hearts out of chests?
The Menstruating Ghost of Puncak (AKA
Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan) has come under fire by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), which is asking the government to ban the film, according to
The Jakarta Post.
The Council fears that the movie could "hurt the younger generation's morality" and are appealing to Muslims not to see it. (Indonesia reportedly has the
world's largest population of Muslims.) However, the Film Censorship Board claims they have not received any such request, with one board member telling
Jakarta Globe: "More than likely this latest rumor is some kind of promotional gimmick for the film." Still, the clerical Council insists on their concerns: "it's violating social norms. It's okay to have freedom of expression but without violating the norms [of decency]." The film opened in Indonesia yesterday and, as far as know, it's
still playing.
Andi Soraya and members of the pop group
Trio Macan star; Steady Rimba )?!) directed. The trailer, which is posted after the jump, is
NSFW due to partial nudity and numerous bloody bits, including the beheading. It looks like a somewhat routine, low-rent, soft-core horror flick, the kind that could be a lot of fun if you're in the right mood and atmosphere -- and if your morals have already been damaged. You decide!
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Professor Xavier likely to be recast.
Direct-to-DVD fodder that's mildly entertaining but forgettable
In the new Star Trek movie, rebooting the franchise with all new actors playing the original Enterprise crew, Anton Yelchin is the new Chekov. Reinterpreting Walter Koenig's Russian starship lieutenant required some interesting linguistic decisions on Yelchin's part.
There comes a time in the life of every newscaster when he or she must form an
opinion on throaty-voiced source of
national cathexis Lana del Rey. Katie Couric is still working on hers.
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Nitro-fueled battle-cars rocket across the pond.
Get more information about Unreal Tournament 3.
We ride the tram in Fluidity.
Nintendo America has, hey wait on a minute.. maybe not
In the few days after the two Nintendo 3DS launch events there was news floating around (and not helped by Nintendos wording) that the Nintendo 3DS eShop wouldnt be available for launch. Launching a new console without one of its new top tier features would have been pretty foolish.However, Nintendo Europe has come to the rescue and said that the store will indeed be available on day 1, youll just need to update your firmware to get it.
Nintendo America isnt so forthcoming though saying that they will "release additional information about Nintendo eShop, including timing, content and pricing, at a later date." Nintendo more than likely has had the Nintendo 3DS sitting in storage for months, the so the latest firmware would still likely be under development.
Hey Nintendo, left hand, right hand, talk to each other and sort this out.
Sources: GoNintendo and Eurogamer
The theatrical trailer for
Medicine for Melancholy is the same as the
First Trailer, it just has titles and the accolades the film has won.
Medicine For Melancholy is the story of two African-American twenty-somethings who wake up in bed together having no recollection of how they arrived there. From the appearance of things its clear theyve had sex. Then, an exercise in the mundane: they dress; neither has a toothbrush, find themselves side by side at the sink, thumbing toothpaste across their gums; decide to have a cup of coffee at a nearby café; sit together then, while awaiting service, realize neither knows the others name; introduce; cab for the trip homeacross town each says to the other of where they liveshare this cab, the girl (Jo) dropped off first; shake hands, part ways. Hours later, the guy (Micah) shows up at her apartment. She left her purse on the backseat. Theres a connection. They give themselves over to it.
Wandering the streets of San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon, the pair take in the sights of the city less seen in todays cinemathe gloriously appointed Museum of African Diaspora, Yuerba Buena Gardens and its sprawling blend of civil rights memorials, wide lawns and tea gardens. As day gives way to night and their heads swirl further with the euphoria of pleasures both physical and intellectual, the immediacy of their previous physical encounter leads them to explore each other in a succession of moments so intimate the vulnerability they share changes them forever. By the time these two part ways is it literally a brand new day.
MyDS writes:
The Nintendo DS is a fantastic handheld gaming device. There's absolutely no doubting that. It's been able to reinvent on-the-go gaming with its innovative design and fantastic library of games that take advantage of its button layout and touch-screen. After a few months of growing pains after its launch, there is rarely a DS game released that isn't worth at least a rent. However, it still lacks that one title that pushes it over the line of greatness. That one title that will grab otherwise disinterested gamers and generate a level of attention not seen for a handheld since the days of the original GameBoy. That one title that will make the DS stand up in the crowd and say, "Look at what I can do!" That title looks set to be Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
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Apple has updated iMovie to version 9.0.2. Beyond improving overall stability, the update also fixes an issue that could cause audio playback to fall out of sync. Apple recommends the update for all users of iMovie ’11. (Free update, $49 new as part of iLife ’11, 27.52 MB)
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Voice over Internet protocol has recently become more common in corporations large and small. By combining separate voice and data transmissions onto the same line, this new communications option enables companies to lower their telecommunications costs and, after taking advantage of the savings, companies are looking to extend VoIP's benefits.
Littlebigplanetoid writes: "Community Team Lead MusterBuster has today confirmed that LittleBigPlanet DLC will resume on January 26th. New content was expected tomorrow (January 22nd), but unknown circumstances have forced a one week delay."
Trailer for the documentary The Arena: North Shore.
The swell in the winter of 2008 produced some of the best surf that Hawaii has seen in years. With the ONeill Work Cup of Surfing competition blowing up on 20-foot Sunset, a half-mile down the beach, Pipeline was firing on all cylinders and creating one of the greatest shows in surfing. As the worlds elite surfers rode some of the best waves of their lives, a young generation of surfers pushed their physical abilities to the limit for a glint of the spotlight. Going deep into the 2008 North Shore session, The Arena shows what happens behind the scenes to some of the many aspiring surfers who are trying to learn what it takes to be accepted on the North Shore. This story follows Andrew Mooney, one of Australias best free surfers and big wave riders, as he tests himself on surfings ultimate proving grounds. While Pipeline will determine whether a professional surfer has the skill and mindset to be among the best in the world, the journey to gaining enough respect to be given the opportunity to charge on of the most dangerous waves in the world is part of the test.
Footage from the seven-mile stretch from Haleiwa to Turtle Bay shows what young surfers go through to become recognized as part of the pecking order at Pipeline. Watch the worlds best surfers in and out of the water during one of the most epic Hawaiian surf seasons ever. Some get the ride of a lifetime and some get denied in The Arena: North Shore.
An anonymous reader writes "My Health Sciences Campus has about 8,000 desktop computers, and on any given night about half of them are left on. I know this because I track all the MAC addresses in case there is a virus outbreak. Aside from the current fad of 'being green', has anyone had any success in encouraging users to power-down at night? You could potentially eliminate running bots, protect yourself from the next virus outbreak, keep your data safe, etc. Do security concerns and power consumption issues matter enough to do this?"
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Puzzle, RPGs, Simulations, Strategy
A Flash demo is
available now for those looking to try
Puzzle Quest's sci-fi follow-up,
Galactrix. The
rules may be slightly different (the no extra turn for 4-of-a-kind is a doozy), but be warned, star gazing gem shifters: the refined spice which made the fantasy realm of
Puzzle Quest so addictive is still quite potent in this new form.
Galactrix is expected to arrive the relatively near future for Nintendo DS, PC, XBLA and PSN. The demo doesn't seem to take prisoners, so hit the enemy with lasers and use shields when opportunity allows.
[Via
X3F,
Evil Avatar]
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Watchmen director Zack Snyder has posted a new update on the official website for the graphic novel adaptation. He talks about the storyboards he creates and how they play a big role in the production. Snyder even shows you two storyboard pages, so don't miss the update here .
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The Killers schedule more Day & Age dates, the New Kids on the Block continue to show they got the right stuff and the Ting Tings sing “That’s Not My Name” from various stages across America. Full dates for all three treks await after the jump.
The Killers
April 16 - Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theatre
April [...]
Busted. In an apparent gaff that undermines Microsoft's multi-million dollar "I'm a PC" campaign an ad for a PC-only software program Songsmith, made by Microsoft, features a MacBook Pro.
Exactly how pervasive is Nintendo's iron grip on the Japanese game industry?
Very, according to 2009 sales figures released by
Weekly Famitsu publisher Enterbrain this week. According to Enterbrain's tabulations, Nintendo sold a total of 15.4 million games in Japan during 2009; out of the top 100 best-selling games in the region last year, Nintendo published 25 of them. (These number doesn't include Pokemon titles, which are published directly by Nintendo affiliate The Pokemon Company in Asia; 4.73 million Pokemon SKUs were sold in Japan last year.)
The good news continued on the hardware front, with 4.02 million Nintendo DSes and 1.98 million Wii systems sold in Japan last year. Overall, titles released for the DS accounted for 43.5% of all Japanese console game sales in 2009; Wii games took 20.3% of the pie, while the PSP was next with 15.3% of sales.
Enterbrain reported that the Japanese video game industry shifted a total of 542 billion yen in sales in 2009, about 7% off from 2008 -- this despite a 10.4% rise in year-over-year game sales for the second half of the year, buoyed by big-name releases like Final Fantasy XIII and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Here's a list of the top 20 games saleswise in Japan last year:
These mistakes show that the bad guys aren't necessarily skilled as they are simply exploiting your errors.
Me want rainbow cake
Last year, IE lost more than 7 percent in market share while competitors gained.
Kabul, 2019. Two boys, as close as brothers. One Afghani, one a Replicant. Tragedy tears them apart. Only the Kite Blade Runner can bring them back together.
Check out another flyover video featuring the San Antonio course.
Miguel de Icaza Blog: "When you contribute fixes or new features to an open source project you should use the existing coding style, the existing coding patterns and stick by the active maintainer's choice for his code organization."
Director: Richard Attenborough - Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Gregory Smith, Stephen Amell
"Today is the first day of the rest of my life "The future depends on what we do in the present." -Mahatma Gandhi... One step at a time...." LINDSAY LOHAN gets deep in her New Year's Day message to fans.
A serious bug in Apple's QuickTime software could leave Windows and Macs users alike open to attacks. The flaw is the first revealed during the announced Month of Apple Bugs "event." Meanwhile, a proof-of-concept bug affecting Gmail contact lists was squashed over the holiday weekend.
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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (PC)
Please, make the addiction stop!
Civilization IV: Warlords, the first expansion for
Civ IV, made my "
Best of the Rest" last year and
Beyond the Sword tops this year's list. The funny thing is I'm not a
Civ fanboy, nor am I even that great of a player (
Full Disclosure: I still play on Noble level), but
Civ IV is a game I can come back to over and over again.
Beyond the Sword added much-needed mechanics for culture-prone and passive-aggressive players, with enhancements in espionage and other concepts "beyond the sword." Oh, and just to keep last year's tradition going: Firaxis (2K, Take-Two),
please get the rights to Alpha Centauri back from EA and give us a sequel!
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I'm not sure if starting off the year with Lindsay Lohan bikini pictures is a portent of things to come, seeing as ho we most likely started off the last year with a Lindsay Lohan bikini post, but fates...
Superman vs. Spider-ManLSU vs. Ohio State. The Redskins vs. the Cowboys. Liddell vs. Silva. Triple H vs. Ric Flair. It’s the time of year for monumental battles with life-changing consequences.
We thought we’d join in the fun by pitting our “Big Two” columnists against each other inside the virtual octagon in a no-holds-barred war of [...]
Mike Tyson rang in the New Year as a free man - he won't face charges for lashing out at a paparazzo during a confrontation at Los Angeles International Airport.
Marvel loves the crossover.
Sandy McGriff, pastor of Church of the Living God in Dallas, got caught apparently trying to pull a reverse Santa Claus—hauling away $10,000 in computers and furs—on a member of her flock on the day before Christmas.
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Split-screen.com writes: "The Wii is still out-selling the PS3 and 360. Nintendo claims to have 'reached out to a more main-stream audience' , which favours the amateur appeal of Wii Sports and Wii Fit. On-line is as bare-bones as you'll find outside of a third-world country. Virtual Console is more or less "just there". And we wonder how. With such a heavy de-emphasis on its seventh generation console, how is Nintendo still thriving?
"It's simple: Nintendo doesn't need it's fans any more."
Squeezing a stress ball may have been enough for the 1990s, but it's the 2000s now and we need to take it up a notch. Enter the Optimal Office Mouse, which not only has a spot for you to stick your thumb on to gauge stress, there's even a software package that lets you perform stress-relieving exercises to alleviate your tenseness. 
Dragon speech recognition software for Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad!
CNBC and the New York Times have decided to share material on their respective websites. in a move to try to stave off competition from Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and recently-launched massively-failing Fox Business News. Basically, CNBC (a General Electric company) gets Times articles that will show up on CNBC.com while the Times gets CNBC videos. We're not so sure if having Jim Cramer screaming at you from the bottom of NYtimes.com is going to boost anything other than annoyance. They should take a page from Murdoch's own playbook and only have hot staffers in front of the camera. . That means a lot more Melena "Urban Eye" Ryzik and David "Dork Hot" Pogue and much much less of David "Scary" Carr and A.O. "Suburban Dad" Scott.
Jason Adams reviews "Inception (SE)"
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