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Snow in Richmond Indiana
2007-11-16 00:00:00
It is now snowing in Richmond Indiana , in the US.Also, it's snowing on The Moon Books Project.
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The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
2007-11-13 00:00:00
A documentary about the life and career of 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe , narrated by director John Huston (who worked with her on "The Misfits"). Included are interviews with friends, cast and crew who worked with her and others who knew her, clips from her films and some scenes that were cut from her earliest movies and not seen for many years.Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 ? August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe award winning American actress, model and sex symbol. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence and became one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. Over 40 years after her death Forbes.com compiled a survey titled "Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities," which compared the money the celebrities' estates earn annually from sales. Monroe ranked seventh, the only woman in the top 13, with earnings of more than $8 million a year. Because of a lack of evidence, her death was classified as "probable suicide", and not...
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Sword of Lancelot, The Real Bruce Lee and Weapons of Death
2007-11-11 00:00:00
Today we bring you three films.Sword of Lancelot, The Real Bruce Lee and Weapons of Death .Lancelot and Guinevere (also known as Sword of Lancelot) is a 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace.Lancelot and Guinevere, a lesser-known version of the Camelot legend, also known as Sword of Lancelot, is a work almost solely made by Cornel Wilde, who co-produces, directs and plays Lancelot. Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere (Wallace, Wilde's wife at the time), bride of Arthur (Brian Aherne, who has essayed this character more than once, e.g. in 1954's Prince Valiant), and she for him.Made ten years after Richard Thorpe's film Knights of the Round Table, the illicit romance this time is portrayed as a more intimate affair, and the sword fights have a more menacing reality (Wilde was an excellent fencer). A sub-plot concerns Arthur's effort to forestall a challe...
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Akira Kurosawa Films
2007-11-09 00:00:00
Akira Kurosawa (Ky?jitai: ?? ?, Shinjitai: ?? ?, Kurosawa Akira, 23 March 1910 ? 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film (Sanshiro Sugata) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Légion d'Honneur and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.Kurosawa had a distinctive cinematic technique, which he had developed by the 1950s, and which gave his films a unique look. He liked using telephoto lenses for the way they flattened the frame and also because he believed that placing cameras farther away from his actors produced better performances. He also liked using multiple cameras, which allowed him to shoot an action scene from different angles. Another Kurosawa trademark was the use of weather elements to heighten mood: for example the heavy rain in the opening scene of Rashomon, and the final battle in Seven Samurai, the intense heat in Stray Dog, the cold wind in Yojimbo, the sno...
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Cat reading a book on the Nintendo DS contest
2007-11-09 00:00:00
The first person to email a picture of a cat reading a book on the Nintendo DS to btmullins @ gmail . com will win a CD with the complete Moon Book s Project library of books.
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Rhythm N' Notes Review
2007-11-09 00:00:00
Rhythm N' Notes is a rhythm training tool for the Nintendo DS and is advertised as being perfect for new and advanced musicians. Since I have no musical experience at all, I guess I would qualify as a new musician. Of the two portions of the game, I found the Rhythm one to be the more enjoyable. My wife will attest that I have no rhythm, but I did find that after practicing the rhythm training portion I could more easily count beats. Perhaps the reason I found the rhythm mode to be the more enjoyable was that it is reminiscent of Donkey Konga. The Notes portion of Rhythm N' Notes was more difficult for me. Being able to match notes to the notes previously played seemed to be nothing but guesswork. Perhaps a real musician with experience in reading music and music theory would find this beneficial or even fun, but I did not. Even with using the free play mode before the tests, I found it to more of a test of memorization skills than of musical knowledge. In conclusio...
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Beowulf
2007-11-08 00:00:00
Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship from around 700 AD. Its creation is typically assigned by scholars either to the period 700?750 AD, or to the time of composition of the only manuscript, circa 1010. At 3183 lines, it is notable for its length. The poem is untitled in the manuscript, but has been known as Beowulf since the early 19th century.As the single major surviving work of Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, the work?in spite of dealing primarily with Danish and Swedish events?has risen to such prominence that it has been described as "England's national epic." A source of much study, the poem was a central inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien, whose academic career was built around its analysis and explication.In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern Sweden) and becoming a Ki...
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Win a limited edition Dementium skin for the DS Lite
2007-11-08 00:00:00
The Moon Books Project is holding it's first game tournament. The tournament ends the last day of November. The game of this tournament is Bookworm. Win an extremely rare Dementium skin for the Nintendo DS. The skin was designed by Game Face Graphics and cannot be bought in any store!Participate in the Bookworm Tournament Visit Game Face Graphics
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Star Wreck in the Pirkinning, now on the Nintendo DS
2007-11-07 00:00:00
Star Wreck : In the Pirkinning is a 2005 motion picture produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is the seventh production in the Star Wreck movie series, the first of professional quality and feature length. It is a dark science fiction comedy about domination of the world and the universe, and a parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes.Although the movie is a fan film at heart, many critics have favourably compared it with typical professionally produced science fiction films, in part because of the quality of the special effects and overall production.Download Star Wreck in the Pirkinning digg_url = 'http://digg.com/movies/Star_Wreck_In_The _Pirkinning_now_on_the_Nintendo _DS';
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Dementium: The Ward Review
2007-11-07 00:00:00
From the title screen onwards Dementium sets the stage with an atmosphere that is very creepy. I found the tutorial sufficiently prepared me for the game without really removing the player from the game world that it would be distracting. In fact the controls are so well laid out that the user interface became 'transparent' in no time. With headphones it is amazing to just move around and listen to the environment sounds (like rain) moving from one side of your audible perception to another.. Movement is controlled with the thumb pad, while looking around and turning is controlled with the stylus, much like a mouse would be used on a similar title on the PC. I have to say though, that I am finding the stylus to be preferred over the standard mouse type of control. There are little things about the controls that show the care Renegade Kid developers of Dementium really put into the game. One such example is when you are looking around. When you relieve pressure or stop moving t...
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$30 off the DS-Xtreme at Divineo
2007-11-07 00:00:00
Divineo has a sale going on where you get $30 off the DS-Xtreme 4Gb card.

The Impossible Kid
2007-11-07 00:00:00
"The Impossible Kid" is a kung fu movie made in 1982, staring filipino actor, Weng Weng, where he is an agent code named 00. Weng Weng is now working for the Manila branch of Interpol. The Chief sends him in the pursuit of Mr X , an arch villian with a white sock on his head (who looks suspiciously like a member of the Ku Klux Klan), who is holding the Philippines to ransom. Two businessmen, Maolo and Simeon, pay the demands but Weng Weng suspects foul play and goes deep undercover to reveal the identity of Mr X. This movie is a sequel to "For Y?ur Height Only", which was Weng Weng's first movie. The fighting scenes throughout this movie can be best described as unlikely, since Weng Weng is only 2 foot 9 inches, and he can beat up, knock down, and or hold down full grown men.For those who are not familiar with Weng Weng, here is a bit of information on him, and his career.Weng Weng (September 7, 1957 ? August 29, 1992) was a Filipino actor and martial artist. He was born in Baclara...

The Street Fighter Series
2007-11-03 00:00:00
IF YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT - FIGHT DIRTY! The Street Fighter (Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken, The Street Fighter ?), literally Clash, Killer Fist!, is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd.Takuma (Terry) Tsurugi is a very violent and deadly martial arts master who will commit almost any crime for money.In the opening scenes, we see him audaciously break a condemned murderer (Junjo) out of prison by impersonating a monk, then using an ancient martial arts technique called the "oxygen coma punch" that causes delayed unconsciousness. When Junjo faints while ascending the gallows, prison officials rush him to a hospital, giving Terry a chance to free him at the expense of an innocent ambulance driver and a couple of guards. However, Junjo's brother and sister, who hired him for the job, don't have enough money to pay him, and, when he finds out, he throws the brother out a high window and sells the sister into sexual slavery.The plot thickens when a wealt...
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Return of the Kung Fu Dragon
2007-11-03 00:00:00
Action packed excitement explodes when a peaceful city is invaded by a pirate known as the Black General. The leaders of the city turn to their United Tactics against this ruthless enemy who uses magical powers to tighten his grip on the city. This Kung Fu Festival has been brought to you in honor of our sponsor Classic Kung Fu Movies. Download Return of the Kung Fu Dragon here: [link]
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Cyrano de Bergerac
2007-11-03 00:00:00
Note: My wife and I just returned from seeing the new Steve Carell film Dan In Real Life, which has some similarities to Cyrano de Berg erac. In honor of such a surprisingly good romantic comedy drama type movie, we present you with Cyrano de Bergerac. 1950 black-and-white film based on the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand. It was produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by Michael Gordon and starred José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac, Mala Powers as Roxane, and William Prince as Christian de Neuvillette. It was the first film version of Rostand's play in English.José Ferrer won an Academy Award for his portrayal of de Bergerac, and Mala Powers was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Roxane.The film was made on a low budget, because its makers felt that a play in verse would not attract a large box office (they turned out to be right). The low budget is evident in the fact that the sets are not very elaborate, and whatever is missing is deliberately obscured by shadows,...
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Master With Cracked Fingers
2007-11-03 00:00:00
Master with Cracked Fingers , aka Snake Fist Fighter martial arts film directed by Mu Chu and starring Jackie Chan. It is often cited as being produced in 1971 or 1973. Whilst the original footage was filmed in 1971 released in 1973, Master with Cracked Fingers was not actually released until 1979.The film has a similar theme to The Young Master (1980). The young and undisciplined Jackie (Jackie Chan) undergoes the tutelage of a nomadic master who has a rigorous training style focusing upon the hardening of the fist.Jackie has been intrigued by kung fu since he was a boy, but he cannot afford to pay for lessons. He later meets an old beggar, "The Man Who Isn't There", who offers to teach him the secrets of fighting. After years of training under his sifu, his skills advance, but his father forbids him to practice. After a series of fights with a local gang of extorionists, and progressively more severe punishments from his father, he fends off the gang once more.In retribution, the ...
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Spooks Run Wild
2007-11-01 00:00:00
Spooks Run Wild is a 1941 film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Bobby Jordan. Released in 1941, it was directed by Phil Rosen, in his first and only outing in the series.Since the series inception in 1940, the East Side Kids films had been, for the most part, a well balanced mix between comedy, drama, and social relevance. Following Huntz Hall's introduction into the series with 1941's Bowery Blitzkrieg, which made famous the Gorcey/Hall banter, producer Sam Katzman decided that the seventh film in the series would not only be a change of pace, but, would also be one of the biggest East Side Kids extravaganzas yet.With that in mind, Katzman enlisted the screen writing team of Carl Foreman and Charles R. Marion to pen the screenplay, which would feature Monogram's two most popular draws for the first time together on screen: Bela Lugosi and the East Side Kids.At the last minute, with Bowery Blitzkrieg director Wal...
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EZine Blog
2007-11-01 00:00:00
I have been doing some research into entertainment blogs, for information on how to improve The Moon Books Project. I have run across one that seems to combine the concept of a 'zine' and a 'blog' into one entertainment centered webpage.You can find the EZine Blog here: ezineblog.org
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Phanton Ship, AKA The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
2007-11-01 00:00:00
The Myst ery of the Marie Celeste (a.k.a. The Phantom Ship ) (1935) is one of the early films from Hammer Film Productions and was directed by Denison Clift. The leading actor is Bela Lugosi. The action is the basis the history of the Marie Celeste (actually Mary Celeste). The ship was found floating near Portugal in 1872 without a crew. The film tries for a rather unspectacular explanation of the events around the well-known spirit ship, without supernatural occurrences. About the actual ship The Mary Celeste was a brigantine found in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and under full sail heading towards the Strait of Gibraltar in 1872. The fate of the crew is the subject of much speculation: theories range from alcoholic fumes to underwater earthquakes, and a large body of fictional accounts of the story. The Mary Celeste is often described as the archetypal ghost ship.On November 5, 1872, under the command of Captain Benjamin Briggs, the ship picked up a cargo of industrial alcohol ship...

Mad Monster
2007-11-01 00:00:00
The Mad Mons ter is a 1942 film. It is a mad scientist Horror Film that uses a Werewolf as a main character. The film was made by Producers Releasing Corporation. The studio was a Poverty Row studio that was renown for low budget movies and was known by the initials P.R.C. The film was made and released in black and White. The film appeared in movie theaters. The movie was directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film starred George Zucco, Glen Strange and Anne Nagel. The film is Poverty Rows only Werewolf movie. It was the third film featured on the national broadcasting of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Plot The plot involves a scientist who has been discredited by his peers. He plans to kill them off by using a secret formula to turn his gardener into a wolfman.The story begains on a fog-bound moonlight night in a swampland with the scene of a wolf howling. The scene shifts to a room where another wolf is being kept in a cage and the other wolfs howl can be heard. ...

Blood Tide starring James Earl Jones
2007-10-28 01:00:00
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.Download Blood Tide here: [link]
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The She Beast
2007-10-28 01:00:00
The She Beast (Italian title: La Sorella di Satana; also known as Revenge of the Blood Beast) is a 1966 British-Italian horror film written and directed by Michael Reeves. The film stars Barbara Steele and Ian Ogilvy.The film opens in 1960s Romania with the bearded and high-socked Count von Helsing (John Karlsen) in a cave reading an account of a murderous witch who lived in the area 300 years before. Then, in a flashback, we see the witch being attacked by villagers who attach her to a dunking-chair by impaling her on a spike, and dunking her. As she dies, she swears to return one day to revenge herself upon the descendants of those who have killed her. The film then cuts back to "present day" Communist Romania where an attractive British couple, Veronica and Phillip (Steele and Ogilvie) are vacationing. The couple stop at an inn (run by a questionable innkeeper with predelections for voyeurism, pornography, and rape) and meet von Helsing. The next day, the couple lose control of t...

Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp preview
2007-10-28 01:00:00
Here are two trailers for the new Sweeney Todd movie, coming out in December starring Johnny Depp . Also, don't forget you can download the 1936 Sweeney Todd film for viewing on the Nintendo DS here: [link]You can also discuss Sweeney Todd here: [link]
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The Terror
2007-10-28 01:00:00
The Terror is a 1963 American horror film produced by Roger Corman. The film is known for having a number of directors, including Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, and Jack Hill.Set in 1806, it is the story of a lost French soldier (Nicholson) who stumbles across a strange young woman (Sandra Knight) who is possessed by a dead woman. Trivia * Clips from the film were used years later in the 1968 Karloff movie, Targets. * The film was reportedly largely improvised by the cast, during a weekend left over from shooting The Raven. The Terror was ultimately shot over four days and used the same sets before they were taken down. * Leftover sets from other AIP films were also used, notably those from The Haunted Palace, a Vincent Price horror film made the same year. The tree against which Sandra Knight expires was the same one Price was tied to and burned in Palace. The dungeon sets are the same as well. * Although credited to Corman, Fran...

Bloodlust and The Most Dangerous Game
2007-10-25 00:00:00
Bloodlust! is a 1961 horror/thriller film about a group of young adults who visit a tropical island only to become prey for a sadistic hunter. The film was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.Two couples (Robert Reed, June Kenney, Joan Lora, and Eugene Persson) are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau (Wilton Graff), whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans. After learning about the terrible secrets of the island from the doctor's wife (Lilyan Chauvin) and her boyfriend (Walter Brooke) as well as an investigation, the group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen. Balleau's wife and her lover are slain and stuffed, while the men are forced to participate in a The Most Dangerous Game -style hunt, with their girlfriends soon joining them. The hunt includes Balleau's sailor henchmen and hidden traps, as well as Balleau's deadly skill..."The Mo...
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How To: Patching 'homebrew' software for use with Games N' Music card
2007-10-25 00:00:00
1. Go to Downloads.com and search for 7 zip. On the results download 7-Zip 4.44 beta. 2. Go to [link] Go click on the huge box that says devices. Now click on slot 1. Under ?D? you will see Datel Games ?n? Music (microSD). Download that. For now to your desktop. It should be called Gmtf2.dldi after you downloaded it. 3. Go back to [link] Now click on tools. Under ?W? download Win32 GUI if you have Windows XP or Windows Vista. For now to your desktop. 4. Make a new folder anywhere you want if you like to get organized first, name it NDS. And put a another folder inside called Patcher. 5. Move the DLDI file from step 2 to the Patcher folder. Keep this file untill you get rid of that ds card. 6. Right click the zip folder you got from step 3. Highlight 7-zip. Click extract and find you Patcher folder. Delete the orginal folder you downloaded.???Now you are ready to patch any ds file for use for your card. 1. Go to [link] and click on homeb...
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Invisible Ghost
2007-10-25 00:00:00
The Invisible Ghost is a 1941 film starring Bela Lugosi. The Thriller, shot in black and white, was directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Lugosi plays Kessler, a man controlled by homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife, who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener. When an innocent man is executed for a murder done by Kessler in the house, his twin brother visits and tries to unravel the mystery.Download Invisible Ghost here: [link]
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The Sadist
2007-10-24 00:00:00
The Sadist is a 1963 black and white exploitation film written and directed by James Landis, based on real life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. It stars Arch Hall Jr., son of exploitation impressario, writer, producer,and director Arch Hall Sr.. It also has cinematography by Academy Award winning Vilmos Zsigmond. One of the better collaborations of the Hall family, and well played for such a low budget production. Trivia * The characters of Charlie and Judy were inspired by real-life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Although the character of Judy acts like a very young teenager (like the real 14-year-old Fugate), a radio announcer was added to clarify that Judy is 18 years old, in order to sidestep censorship problems. * This is believed to be the first feature film based on real life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Mainstream Hollywood would not produce films inspired by the pair until a decade after this on...

Horror Literature Collection
2007-10-24 00:00:00
Collected here are three classic works of horror literature.Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonDownload the Horror Collection here: [link]
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Teenage Zombies, and What To Do In A Zombie Attack
2007-10-24 00:00:00
See Teenage Girls Thrust Into the Weird Pulsating Cage of Horror!Teenage Zombie s is a 1959 horror/science fiction film, written and directed by Jerry Warren, which was featured in the 2004 documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.Download Teenage Zombies here: [link]Download What To Do In A Zombie Attack here: [link]