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The Wire Makes Shipping Gripping

It's difficult to imagine that any crime drama could take the everyday drudgery of haulage work, transport contracts and shipping and make it compelling, but that's what the second season of "The Wire" has achieved. Following on from the ground-breaking first series, which focuse

Top 10 Oscar - Best Actress Predictions

Which 5 Ladies will be nominated in the best-actress category and which of these actresses will win the coveted Oscar for Best Actress at the 80th Academy Awards on February 24th 2008? Here's the latest hotlist of the 10 most serious contenders.

Dilip Kumar the First Super Star of Hindi Cinema

India is a poor country with a low per capita income, yet the film industry is perhaps bigger than Hollywood. Perhaps the success of the film industry is dependent on its ability to sell dreams to the improvised masses. The Indian film industry is dominated by Hindi cinema though Bengali and Tamil f

Give Your Product Video Smooth Final Touch

A number of video production companies one will find on the Internet which will offer you their best services. You just need to spend some money, some good money for your video and with some creative

Lighting For Video - How to Use Fill Light

When approaching how to light a scene in your video, you will look at the three components of scene lighting: key light, fill light and back (or rim) light (also called a kicker). In this article, we will focus on how to practically use fill light in your shots.

Salt Movie

Movie reviews this week looks at the action thriller Salt, starring Angelina Jolie (Lara Croft) back to her best physically demanding role since Lara Croft, (and I must say how impressed I am by her action scenes seeing she is the proud mother of twins). The movie begins with Evelyn salt (Angelina J

The Secret To Writing A Great Film Song

Every songwriter on the planet is trying to get his or her music into a Film or Television Show. So is every music publisher. In these digital days it's increasingly more difficult to stand out in the ocean of songs pouring in from online sites to the small number of music supervisors who are t

2007 Emmys - Edie Falco

Catch a glimpse of your favorite television stars at the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

How to Promote a Program for TV

There are many ways to promote your program for TV. The trick to promotion is to grab people's attention with a hook they can't forget. Sometimes this means girls in a bikini while other times it means jaw-dropping action. Before beginning your promotional campaign, figure out your marketing tactics

Kick Ass! The Promise of the Premise

Every movie makes its audience a promise- what I like to call The Promise of the Premise. This promise is the built-in anticipation that convinces your viewers to pay their 12 bucks on your movie instead of some other flick. It's rare that you see a big budget action movie that succeeds on the

Teeth - My Introduction to Feminist Horror

I am looking at the sticky notes I have little ideas about this movie written on. Never in my life have I written notes about a movie. I'm a social justice educator not a film critic.

The Simpsons - A Lesson in TV Longevity

When people think of cartoon they normally conjure up an image of a little pink bunny rabbits hopping around magical forests entertaining and delighting little children.Cartoons are more often than not associated with children more so than adults, and rightfully so: a large majority of the cartoons