Prom Picture of the Week #5

Glad to see that the two Rusty's from the Vacation movies got dates for the prom.

Vacation RustyEuropean Vacation Rusty 

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Shoeless Joe

A great free pick this week, Shoeless Joe.

W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home.

Get this one for your digital library while it's free.  Remember this isn't heaven, it's a free Kindle pick.

Video - Man Films Tornado in his Car as it Passes By

Unbelievable video, I would've been freaking out!

Highway worker Steven Hoag calmly chats on the phone while a tornado causes destruction around him in a Wilson, N.C., Walgreens parking lot.

iPad Free App of the Week: Crackle

Watch movies and television shows on your iPad with this free app put out by Sony.

It also works for the iPhone and iPod Touch offering hundreds of TV and movie titles for free viewing on-demand with ads.

Crackle’s content includes movies from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics, all Sony-owned labels. The site competes with Hulu, owned in part by NBC Universal, Fox and Disney.

The movies and TV shows at Crackle are uncut, though they are interrupted for quick commercial breaks that cannot be fast-forwarded.

Some of the content the site was featuring prominently on its Web site Monday included the TV showsSeinfeld and Married … With Children and the movies 21, The Last Picture Show, Flatliners and The Da Vinci Code.

The ads aren't that intrusive and I can live with them.  New content is supoosed to be added weekly.  So far I like it.

Rio is #1 at Box Office

Animated family comedy Rio has topped the North American box office according to initial figures.

The film about a birdnapped macaw, which features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, took in $40 million over the weekend.

It was the best opening weekend takings so far this year, beating another animated comedy, Rango, by $2 million.

Horror sequel Scream 4 - the first film in the franchise for 11 years - entered the chart at two with $19.3m.