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A compilation of some of the past week's best videos, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. It's filled with a smoking William Shatner, bands in antlers, and Germans from the future.
1.) Bill Gates goes to college
2.) California roll made easy
3.) Teairra Mari: "Make a Girl Feel"
4.) Download.com guide to ICQ
5.) Dramatic plane landing
6.) Fallout Boy: "Sugar We're Going Down"
7.) 5th-Grade Devo
8.) "Hellbent" trailer
9.) Shatner's "Rocket Man"
10.) The Pacifics: "Especialty"
11.) Le Kim Luc: "Chuyen Tinh My Chau (The Love Story of My Chau)"
Legend tells of three magic diamonds that, if in the wrong hands, can be united to create a force powerful enough to freeze the sun. When the evil sorcerer Zeebad (Jon Stewart) escapes from his ancient prison, he vows to exact revenge by deep-freezing the earth forever. Determined to save the world, a fellowship of four unlikely heroes band together to foil Zeebad's villainous plot. Led by the candy-loving mutt Doogal (Kenan Thompson), friends Dylan (Jimmy Fallon), Brian (William H. Macy) and Ermintrude (Whoopi Goldberg) all embark on an epic adventure to save the world. In order to find the diamonds before Zeebad, they must climb icy mountains, navigate fiery pits of molten lava, sail across vast oceans and pass through a booby-trapped temple guarded by an army of ninja skeleton warriors. Along the way they learn that the most powerful weapon is their friendship ? which even Zeebad's evil magic cannot destroy.
The week in a minute: 10/21/05
A compilation of some of the past week's video gems, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. This week's minute brings you bird flu, Tupac, a boat of speed, and the Nirvana baby.
1.) Spencer Davis Group: "Gimme Some Lovin'" live
2.) The Daily Show looks at the avain flu
3.) "The Big Lebowski" DVD clip: "That creep can roll"
4.) Trigger Trippy
5.) Jesus: The Action Figure
6.) Family Guy: A-ha
7.) Saute flipping tip
7.) Tupac: How Do You Want It"
8.) Luis Guzman's freak out
9.) The making of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover
10.) Chinese kids doing Backstreet
11.) 17-year-old Biggie Smalls
12.) "How to Dance LIke a White Guy" infomercial
13.) "Brokeback Mountain" trailer
14.) Malaysian Michael
15.) 12-year-old wiz drummer
16.) Simple Sun commercial: "Boat of Speed"
17.) Filmmaker pukes on newsdesk
18.) Electric Light Orchestra: "Do Ya"
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A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.BR>
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Set amid the chaos of pre-revolutionary China, small-time thief Sing aspires to be one of the sophisticated and ruthless Axe Gang whose underworld activities overshadow the city. Stumbling across a crowded apartment complex aptly known as "Pig Sty Alley," Sing attempts to extort money from one of the ordinary locals, but the neighbors are not what they appear. Sing's comical attempts at intimidation inadvertantly attract the Axe Gang into the fray, setting off a chain of events that brings the two disparate worlds face-to-face. As the inhabitants of Pig Sty fight for their lives, the ensuing clash of kung fu titans unearths some legendary martial arts Masters. Sing, despite his futile attempts, lacks the soul of a killer, and must face his own mortality in order to discover the true nature of the kung fu master.
Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s. The city was awash with the trappings of America's cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck's building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera. Sean's casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soon-to-be famous 15-minute film. This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence- "Sure, I smoke pot"-but it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility. Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. And what he finds, to his surprise, tells him as much about his own east-coast migration as it does about the Californian life he left behind-that the choices we're handed and the choices we make are, very often, quite odd bedfellows.
The week in a minute: 10/07/05
A compilation of some of the past week's best and strangest video, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. This installment brings racing weenies, sketchy supermodels, and a puppet singing hardcore.
1.) iPod Nano spoof
2.) Shining
3.) Insane football hits
4.) 2005 Wiener Dog Nationals
5.) GG Allin: "Bite It, You Scum"
6.) Showbread: "Mouth Like a Magazine"
7.) Kate Moss drug video
8.) Litwit Junkies: "One Day Away"
9.) The Simpsons: "The Shinning" clip
10.) Arcade Fire: "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)"
11.) "El Escape De Los Sanots" ("The Escape of De Los Santos") trailer
12.) Utah State Fair Napoleon Dynamite commercial
13.) Spoon: "Sister Jack"
14.) Linsday Lohan on SNL
15.) He Is Legend: "The Seduction"
16.) The Weekend
17.) Devo: "Whip It"
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"Mrs. Henderson Presents" trailer
Laura Henderson (Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.
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"Howl's Moving Castle" trailer
A young woman is transformed by a mysterious curse and the only one who can set her free from the ancient sorcery is a powerful wizard who lives in an enchanted moving castle. From Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, Oscar-winning director of "Spirited Away".
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A compilation of the week's best videos, brought to you by the Download.com video team. This week we have a liberated Howard Stern, a stammering Supreme Court nominee, and an imploding casino.
1.) Bright Eyes: "At the Bottom of Everything"
2.) Jason Forrest: "War Photographer"
3.) "Fraud of the century"
4.) American Apparel commercial: "Cheer Camp"
5.) Jolie, Pitt expecting child
6.) "Death Cab for Cutie: "Soul Meets Body"
7.) Stern makes Sirius debut
8.) Alito on presidential powers
9.) Liquid lady
10.) SNL's "Chronicles of Narnia" rap
11.) KISS: live and loving it
12.) Las Vegas casino imploded
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