Viz Pictures will screen six live action films at the New York Anime Festival, running from December 7th-9th 2007. To bad its New York or I would go all cosplay and check these movies out myself. The films slated to screen are Honey & Clover ( Yu Aoi ! Yusuke Iseya ! Megumi Seki !), Love*Com ( Ema Fujisawa ! Teppei Koike !), Nana ( Aoi Miyazaki ! Mika Nakashima ! Ryuhei Matsuda !), Ping Pong (the whole cast is awesome), Kamikaze Girls ( Anna [...]
Mozilla's Camino Web Browser for Mac has been updated to version 1.5.4. This release contains new features, as well as important stability and security fixes. Primary importance would be the upgrade of the web browser's engine to version 1.8.1.11 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine (plenty of critical security and stability fixes there). There is also better integration with OS X 10.5 Leopard in version 1.5.4. You can download Camino 1.5.4 here . Camino 1.5.4 changelog: * Upgraded to [...]
Yahoo! today announced the first preview release of their popular Yahoo! Messenger for Microsoft Vista. The UI has been enhanced with Vista's WPF graphic subsystem, tabs can be used for conversations, contacts are draggable into the Windows Sidebar gaget and you still have the Yahoo! and Windows Live contacts interoperability. You can download Yahoo! Messenger for Vista here . Features for Yahoo! Messenger for Vista * Entirely new interface that harnesses the power of WPF, the graphics subsystem in Windows Vista * [...]
If you are one of the many cellphone users running Qualcomm's BREW platform you can now use Opera's nifty "Opera Mini Web browser." With Opera's Mini Web browser, BREW users can access popular social networks, news, search engines, and emails. The browser is reported to be twice as fast as its nearest competitors and uses less data transfers (because of its unique pre-process proxy server for web pages). On your cellphone you can download Opera Mini from http://www.operamini.com/ or download the software to your PC
Movie: The Longest Night in Shanghai | Yoru no shanghai Release Date: June 26, 2007 Country: China / Japan Director: Yibai Zhang Starring: Vicki Zhao , Masahiro Motoki Runtime: 110 Min Editor Rating: Not Yet Rated Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. A movie I'm excited about watching, would be "The Longest Night in Shanghai." The film is helmed by Zhang Yibai, who made quite a splash with his indie flick "Spring Subway." There's also the interesting Chinese-Japanese co-production. The [...]
Paper Bag Records and Sally Shapiro are offering a sweet Piano Re-mix of Sally Shapiro's "Anarok Christmas" for free download. The song was produced by the Swedish electronic muscian, Johan Agebjorn. Sally Shapiro is based out of Sweden and her sound is described by her label as "one that fuses exaggerated electro beats reminiscent of a neon, bygone era whilst preserving an understated innocence, elegance and light." So if you like bands like St. Etienne or the electronic parts of Club 8, you'll like enjoy her latest album "Disco Romance". Free Downloads: Anarok Christmas [...]
For people living in the San Francisco area, they should be happy to hear that Viz Pictures become owner of art house movie theatre in the middle of San Francisco's Japan Town. I was fortunate enough to visit that area about 5 years ago and the idea of movie theatre playing the latest Japanese films is a very cool idea and would make me want to go back even more. The theatre is set to open in winter of 2007/2008. In the planned multi-boutique J-Pop Center, that will house the theatre, there will also be a "a bookstore, café and [...]

On November 23rd, the 28th Annual Blue Dragon Awards were held in South Korea. It's one of the two major film awards events in Korea (the other being the Grand Bell Awards). "Secret Sunshine" would probably have won most of the awards, but Chang-dong Lee withheld his film from nomination as protest against the event's main sponsor Choson Sports and its corporate parent Chosun Ilbo. To see the list of winners read below (links provided to corresponding reviews & profiles). Best Movie * The Show Must Go On [...]
Free Downloads : Whatever You Want , Heaven , Love in December LP6: Hello is this Johan from Club 8? Johan: Yes it is how are you doing? LP6: Fine and yourself? Johan: Good.. LP6: Who came first CLUB 8 or S CLUB 8? Johan: (laughs) We were way [...]
Band: Tender Forever Album : Wider Release Date: December 4, 2007 Record Label: K Records Free Downloads: How Many , Heartbroken Forever Editor Rating: 8.0 Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. Tender Forever, aka Melanie Valera, returns for her second album on the seminal indie label K Records. A French citizen that makes Portland, [...]