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The Next Big Step in Running Shoes?
2 hours ago
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The On Running Shoe is meant to combat the problems created by over-soft shoes that make your support muscles degrade.
Running shoes now feature all manner of crazy shock-absorption systems. But the industry's dirty little secret: All that padding might not be good for you. A new shoe being released in February attempts to solve that problem, and has just won an Ispo Brand New award, a German laurel that recognizes the year's most innovative sports products.
According to the inventors of the On Running Shoe, the problem with modern running shoes is that when you hit the ground on a big cushy sole, you don't have a solid surface to push off from with your next step. As a result, some of your support muscles atrophy, due to lack of use--and that leaves you prone to injury.
The On, by contrast, has a sole that collapses on impact, offering cushioning.
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- Cliff Kuang
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Bernard Hermann Tributes On Turner Classic Movies Every Tuesday In September
26 August 2009 9:43 AM, PDT
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Hermann joking with frequent collaborator Alfred Hitchcock.
Cinema Retro reader and film historian Bruce Crawford gave us the head's up that he recently collaborated with Robert Osborne on a month-long tribute to composer Bernard Hermann. Films relating to the maestro will be presented every Tuesday in September on TCM. Here is a look at the schedule:
12 August 2009Tcm (USA) - Spotlight on HerrmannSource: Bill Huelbig, Bruce Crawford Every Tuesday in September Turner Classic Movies (Us Version) will show several Herrmann scored films.
The spotlight will be hosted by Robert Osborne.
The Herrmann consultant is Bruce Crawford.
The schedule:
1. Sept:
Hangover Square
Devil and Daniel Webster
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
On Dangerous Ground
8. Sept:
Five Fingers
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
The Naked and the Dead
3 Worlds of Gulliver
15. Sept:
The Trouble With Harry
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad
Mysterious Island
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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[DVD Review] Five Fingers
11 July 2009 10:14 PM, PDT
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Whatever happened to Ryan Phillippe, anyway? Adolescent girls everywhere (myself included) had nothing but the highest hopes for him after the tacky teenage melodrama (though it didn't seem so at the time), Cruel Intentions. And hey, as it turns out, he's still a pretty good actor.
In Five Fingers, the aforementioned Phillippe plays Martijn, a young, idealistic Dutch pianist-slash-banker who travels to Morocco to start a charity program to help feed the hungry. Upon his arrival in the country he's promptly kidnapped by terrorists who hold him hostage and interrogate him regarding his intentions for coming to the country, physically punishing him whenever they believe he is withholding information. I won't say how, exactly, but I think you might be able to infer it from the title.
The film takes a little while to pick up, but once it does it's well worth it. At first it appeared to me
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- Inna Mkrtycheva
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New on DVD This Week
7 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week. Plus, some old favorites coming out this week on Blu-Ray.
New Movies:
• Knowing ~ Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Push ~ Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning (DVD and Blu-ray)
• The Unborn ~ Odette Yustman (DVD and Blu-Ray)
• Night Train ~ Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Five Fingers ~ Laurence Fishburne, Colm Meaney, Antonie Kamerling, Saïd Taghmaoui (DVD and Blu-ray)
• A Day in the Life ~ Omar Epps, Faizon Love, Michael Rapaport, Tyrin Turner (DVD)
• Flying By ~ Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, Olesya Rulin, Patricia Neal (DVD)
• Applause for Miss E ~ Vanessa Bell Calloway, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gina Torres (DVD)
• Power Rangers Rpm, Vol. 1: Start Your Engines ~ Eka Darville, Ari Boyland, Rose McIver, Milo Cawthorne (DVD)
• Flight 666 ~ Iron Maiden (Blu-ray)
Previously Released and Classic Movies:
• Lonely are the Brave ~ Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy
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- Chris Ullrich
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This Week on DVD: Knowing, Push, Nursery University
7 July 2009 9:32 AM, PDT
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Say what you will, but the biggest DVD release of the week is Nicolas Cage's latest masterpiece Knowing (and I'm only partially being sarcastic, since I actually liked the movie), along with David Goyer's The Unborn and the sci-fi/action/thriller Push starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning. Aside from that, there's Reclaiming The Blade (a documentary about swords), Nursery University (a documentary about "Ivy League" nursery school admissions), a new Mystery Science Theater 3000 collection, and a box set of the first six animated Charlie Brown TV specials. Also: Peter Benchley's The Deep and Grumpy Old Men on Blu-ray. Are you planning on buying or renting anything this week?
Knowing [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
The Unborn [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
Push [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
Five Fingers [7]
Night Train [8] (DVD, Blu-ray [9])
Coco Chanel [10]
Dead Wood [11]
One Missed Call 3: Final [12]
Nursery University [13]
Reclaiming The Blade [14]
The Peacekeepers [15]
Kath & Kim: Season 1 [16]
Matlock: The Third
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- Sean
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Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 7/7
7 July 2009 8:03 AM, PDT
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Knowing
Forget Nostradamus. In this Nick Cage flick, a young girl in the '50s draws a picture of numbers for a time capsule. Fifty years later, when the contents are examined, it turns out that those numbers indicate the dates, death tolls, and coordinates of major disasters, and a few haven't happened yet! But it's not exactly the doomsday flick fans would hope for. In his review, Jeffrey M. Anderson says: "rather than becoming a comfortable hybrid between a small, smart movie and a big, dumb movie, Knowing became a horrible mutation, bulging out in all the wrong places, with unsightly scars where the butcher's knife had been." Skip it. Also on Blu-ray.
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Push
Not every Dakota Fanning movie is a shocker of a drama. In this psychic espionage thriller, she plays a "watcher" and one of the psychic rogues determined to end a creepy government agency.
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- Monika Bartyzel
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: July 7, 2009
7 July 2009 2:16 AM, PDT
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Knowing
I just reviewed the Blu-ray edition of this one and you can read that right here. I still find this a fascinating movie and definitely recommend everyone check it out at least once, but the second time around the two hour runtime does begin to really weigh on you and I didn't end up finding anything new that I hadn't noticed already. I personally hoped for more from a second viewing but came up empty. Not sure this one is a purchase, but do give it a chance if you haven't seen it yet.
The Unborn (Unrated)
Meh, not a very good movie to begin with (read my theatrical review here) and I highly doubt this supposed "unrated" cut will be any better. If you want to see a low-rent PG-13 horror I would recommend The Uninvited over this one.
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- Brad Brevet
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: April 28, 2009
28 April 2009 2:09 AM, PDT
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Star Trek (Original Series) - The Complete First Season
I have watched about five of the first season episodes on Paramount's Blu-ray release of the original "Star Trek" series and as expected they look phenomenal, just as they did when I reviewed the HD DVD edition of the first season. However, gone is the bulky packaging, and the set has been cut down to seven discs instead of ten, both details are fantastic news. As far as differences, the main absence is a 90-minute documentary called "Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier" and there isn't an included booklet of any kind. However, improved menus, on the fly switching between the enhanced versions and the original effects is an impressive addition even if you only check it out once or twice. Overall, I think this is a must own, but
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- Brad Brevet
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