“Brothers”  (R)

–Natalie Portman plays a Marine wife who’s told that her husband died in Afghanistan.  His brother consoles her a little TOO well and they fall in love.  Unfortunately, her husband DIDN’T die.  And as soon as he suspects that his brother’s been plowing his wife, it all hits the fan.

–Tobey Maguire plays the jealous husband and Jake Gyllenhaal is his brother.  (–It’s weird what a difference a buzz cut can make.  I never really thought of Tobey Maguire as that much of a bad ass, but with those wild eyes and that military haircut he looks INTENSE.)

Official Site:  http://www.brothersfilm.com/  

“Armored” (PG-13)

–Columbus Short plays a young armored car guard who lets some of the other guards convince him to rob their own truck, just as long as no one gets hurt. But after one of them shoots a cop, Short refuses to let him die . . . and locks himself in the truck with the loot and the wounded cop.

–Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne lead the crew of crooked guards . . . and “Heroes” stud Milo Ventimiglia plays the unlucky cop that they shoot.

Official Site: http://www.armoredmovie.com/

“Everybody’s Fine” (PG-13)

–Robert De Niro’s kids cancel their plans to come home for the holidays, so he takes a trip to surprise them . . . and finds out that their lives aren’t going nearly as well as they’d led him to believe. Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell play his dysfunctional kids.

Official Site: http://www.miramax.com/everybodysfine/

“Serious Moonlight ” (R) (Limited)

–Meg Ryan’s husband tells her that he’s leaving her for a younger woman, then she knocks him out, duct tapes him to a toilet, and holds him HOSTAGE until he falls back in love with her.

–Unfortunately they’re interrupted by his mistress . . . and their opportunistic gardener, who starts robbing the place after overpowering the two women. Timothy Hutton plays her cheating husband, Kristen Bell is his mistress, and Justin Long is the thieving gardener.

Official Site: http://www.seriousmoonlightfilm.com/

“Up in the Air ” (R) (Limited) (–It opens nationwide on Christmas Day.)

–George Clooney is a corporate downsizer who’s lived on the road for so long that he’s almost earned his lifetime goal of 10 million frequent flyer miles. But just when he falls in love with another traveler, his company’s new efficiency expert threatens to cut off his travel budget.

–The expert is played by Anna Kendrick . . . who “Twilight” fans would recognize as Bella’s friend Jessica. Jason Bateman is also in it as Clooney’s boss.

Official Site: http://www.theupintheairmovie.com/

“TransylMania” (R) (Limited)

–A vampire spoof that’s actually a sequel to the National Lampoon “Dorm Daze” movies. The cast of “Dorm Daze 2″ goes to Transylvania for a semester at a castle that just so happens to be full of vampires. Eye candy includes the current Doublemint Twins, Natalie and Nicole Garza.

Official Site: http://www.transylmaniathemovie.com/site/index.html

“Armored” (PG-13)

–Columbus Short plays a young armored car guard who lets some of the other guards convince him to rob their own truck, just as long as no one gets hurt. But after one of them shoots a cop, Short refuses to let him die . . . and locks himself in the truck with the loot and the wounded cop.

–Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne lead the crew of crooked guards . . . and “Heroes” stud Milo Ventimiglia plays the unlucky cop that they shoot.

Official Site: http://www.armoredmovie.com/

“Everybody’s Fine” (PG-13)

–Robert De Niro’s kids cancel their plans to come home for the holidays, so he takes a trip to surprise them . . . and finds out that their lives aren’t going nearly as well as they’d led him to believe. Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell play his dysfunctional kids.

Official Site: http://www.miramax.com/everybodysfine/

“Serious Moonlight ” (R) (Limited)

–Meg Ryan’s husband tells her that he’s leaving her for a younger woman, then she knocks him out, duct tapes him to a toilet, and holds him HOSTAGE until he falls back in love with her.

–Unfortunately they’re interrupted by his mistress . . . and their opportunistic gardener, who starts robbing the place after overpowering the two women. Timothy Hutton plays her cheating husband, Kristen Bell is his mistress, and Justin Long is the thieving gardener.

Official Site: http://www.seriousmoonlightfilm.com/

“Up in the Air ” (R) (Limited) (–It opens nationwide on Christmas Day.)

–George Clooney is a corporate downsizer who’s lived on the road for so long that he’s almost earned his lifetime goal of 10 million frequent flyer miles. But just when he falls in love with another traveler, his company’s new efficiency expert threatens to cut off his travel budget.

–The expert is played by Anna Kendrick . . . who “Twilight” fans would recognize as Bella’s friend Jessica. Jason Bateman is also in it as Clooney’s boss.

Official Site: http://www.theupintheairmovie.com/

“TransylMania” (R) (Limited)

–A vampire spoof that’s actually a sequel to the National Lampoon “Dorm Daze” movies. The cast of “Dorm Daze 2″ goes to Transylvania for a semester at a castle that just so happens to be full of vampires. Eye candy includes the current Doublemint Twins, Natalie and Nicole Garza.

Official Site: http://www.transylmaniathemovie.com/site/index.html

NAS was busted for DUI in Henry County, Georgia, back on September 10th. But this isn’t your everyday DUI. According to the police report, Nas, quote, “had a green tongue with raised taste buds and his pulse was raised to 116 beats per minute.”

–The officers said Nas had, quote, “eyelid tremors in both eyes and body tremors” . . . and that the car smelled like, quote, “raw marijuana.” So, it would appear that Nas was smoking some weed . . . and TMZ is reporting that he even ADMITTED it to the cops.

–But the charges were dropped because there wasn’t enough evidence. Supposedly, Nas took a drug test . . . and it came back NEGATIVE, even for marijuana. (???) Nas did fail a field sobriety test on the scene . . . but it sounds like he’s off the hook.

Drake Speaks On His Upcoming Debut Album, “Thank Me Later”

The Department of Defense is buying 2,200 PS3 consoles to upgrade one of their supercomputers, currently a linux cluster of 336 PS3s being used by the USAF.

Sony sells the system at loss to make their profit on the comeback, [You ever turn tricks for a new GTA game?  I have.] so these can be used to build economical Linux supercomputers like the Warhawk Server Cluster.

How much money does it save?  According to the DoD’s Justification Review Document, about ninety freakin’ percent:

With respect to cell processors, a single 1U server configured with two 3.2GHz cell processors can cost up to $8K while two Sony PS3s cost approximately $600. Though a single 3.2 GHz cell processor can deliver over 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration delivers approximately 150 GFLOPS, the approximately tenfold cost difference per GFLOP makes the Sony PS3 the only viable technology for HPC applications. [arstechnica]

Fair game?

Official Statement from Pleasure P / Atlantic Records:

“All of the recent rumors and accusations that are being circulated about me are 100% false.

They are disgusting and vile; and they are being spread by individuals with their own sick agendas. The purported documents that are also being circulated are forgeries.

I have never met or known anyone by the name of “AGoldstein” or Laura Goldstein or Ashley Goldstein, which I believe are fictitious names.

I have never been represented by an attorney named Goldstein. For someone to go to such depths to assassinate my character and slander my good name is truly criminal.

My attorneys are investigating this matter and will take all necessary and appropriate action to protect my name and reputation.”

Pleasure P -Accused Of Child Molestation

Redbox, the $1-movie-rental vending machine business with over 20K kiosks in 17.5K locations, has been operating trial-run $2 game rental kiosks since August in Reno, NV and Wilmington, NC.

Now they’re looking to expand it with a quickness.  And they can do it, too.  They only had about a dozen Redbox locations five years ago, and they have the backing of McDonalds.  We will be assimilated.

Redbox is talking with video game developers about offering their products in its DVD kiosks and hopes to avoid the kind of resistance it encountered from some Hollywood studios, Redbox’s president said on Wednesday.  Time Warner’s Warner Bros, News Corp’s Twentieth Century Fox and General Electric’s NBC Universal have cut off Redbox’s access to their DVDS, accusing the company of undervaluing potential DVD sales by renting them for $1 a day.
Brian Farrell, CEO of video game maker THQ Inc, said he would consider allowing Redbox to rent out THQ games, which include franchises such as Saints Row.  “If you look at movies and music in some ways, resisting new business models has not been a great formula for success, so one of the things I like about our industry is we tend to think, ‘We have to adapt to this change.’ So it’s part of our DNA,” Farrell told the Summit.

Meanwhile, Blockbuster is charging full-bore into the 18th century and has begun selling . . . books?  For real:

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