This Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts announce ninth annual Poster Design Competition of this year challenges the high school graduates and the high school seniors from United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.

The competition is to design a poster that will express the new theme of the competition. The theme is “You Can Create Tomorrow”. The contestants will be able to compete in two various categories such as high school graduate/adult and high school senior. All you have to do is to fill up the entry form for the competition and prove your talent.

But why do we feel the need to laze our days away in front of the box while scoffing luxury chocolates by the handful?

The answer; we need that feel good factor!

We all feel a little down and depressed in the winter months due to lack of sunlight but we also feel a little guilty at Christmastime as we have plenty while others do not.

So what is the solution?

A few feelgood Christmas movies to lift our spirits? Or maybe we should try giving to those less fortunate than ourselves, as that is the whole meaning of Christmas spirit isn’t it?

Or what about getting out there in the chilly air and getting some exercise to work off that turkey dinner and make us feel better… No need to buy mountain hardware, you aren’t going rock climbing, just getting wrapped up for a brisk walk. All these things would give you that feel good feeling, so what are you waiting for?

But while you’re feeling in the mood for a movie why not take a look at this top ten list of Christmas movies for adults.

 It’s a Wonderful Life

George Bailey (James Stewart) contemplates suicide after $8,000 is lost by his Uncle Billy on the way to deposit it at the bank on Christmas Eve. Of course, George will be held responsible for this and he wonders if his family and the town would be better off without him. That is, until an Angel named Clarence shows him otherwise.

The Christmas Cottage

This the story behind Thomas Kinkade’s painting ‘The Christmas Cottage’. After Thomas (Jared Padalecki) discovers his mother is behind with her mortgage repayments, the amateur artist decides to go professional to save their family home from repossession. So he seeks the guidance of an aging mentor to show him the way.

The Holiday

Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz)  and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) have been unlucky in love and decide they need to get away. So just before Christmas vacation they surf the ‘net for ideas and choose to swap their house through a  home exchange website. Amanda is off to a lovely old cottage in Surrey, England and Iris to a beautiful modern home in Los Angeles. But little do they know that love is just around the corner for both of them...

While You Were Sleeping

Lucy (Sandra Bullock) leads a lonely life as a fare collector in Chicago and with no family to speak of she dreams of being married to handsome commuter Peter Callahan (Peter Gallagher) whom she sees everyday at the station. When Peter is mugged and knocked onto the tracks, Lucy rushes to save him from an oncoming train. She then poses as Peter’s fiancee at the hospital and ends up meeting his family while Peter is in a coma. The whole family love her and think she’s fantastic, including Peter’s brother Jack (Bill Pullman). And there begins the love story.

Four Christmases

On Christmas morning happy couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are off to Fiji to avoid spending Christmas with their two sets of divorced parents. But Fate has a cruel twist up its sleeve, they don’t get to Fuji and they end up visiting all four parents all in one day! As the day wears on they begin to realise they don’t really know each other that well after all. This is exacerbated by remembering all the stuff that happened to them as they were growing up. Is their supposedly perfect relationship without marriage and kids really what they want?

Homeless For The Holidays

Jack Baker (Matt Moore) leads a perfect upper-middle-class life right up until he loses his job as an executive. He then has to master the horror of working at a burger joint to cover the bills but it soon becomes clear that he can’t survive on such poor wages and if something doesn’t change soon they will be homeless by Christmas.

Die Hard

John McClane (Bruce Willis) is going to spend Christmas with his estranged wife in L.A. He is heading to her company’s Christmas party but soon discovers that all the partygoers, including his wife, have been taken hostage by terrorists. Their leader, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) is demanding the release of terrorists from prison in exchange for the lives of the hostages, but is secretly plotting to steal millions in bearer bonds from a vault in the building.Of course, McClane takes all the terrorists on single handed!

The Preachers Wife

When Reverend Henry Biggs  (Courtney B. Vance) prays to God for help with his failing marriage to choir mistress Julia (Whitney Houston) and to stop his church being under threat by property developers, he doesn’t expect his prayers to be answered. God sends him an Angel named Dudley (Denzel Washington) to help out but it seems Dudley sets to cause him even more trouble.

The Family Man

Jack Campbell (Nicholas Cage) is a successful business man. He loves his single life, his Ferrari and his job. But one day he wakes up in a different life, a life where his old girlfriend is now his wife and he’s a father of two kids. He has a minivan instead of a Ferrari and works at a Big Ed’s as a tyre salesman, instead of a president at an investment house. However, he soon learns to live this life and realises just how much was missing from his bachelor existence.

Trading Places

Louis Winthorpe (Dan Ackroyd) is a successful business man who works for two brothers at their company Duke and Duke. The brothers are constantly bickering and this time it’s whether it’s environment or heredity that determines how well a person does in their life. Winthorpe bumps into a street con-artist named Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and thinks he is going to rob him so has him arrested. Well, when the Duke brothers see how different Valentine and Winthorpe are, they decide this will bring an end their argument. They decide to place a bet on how Winthrope will do without a job, his home and his dignity, while giving Valentine, Winthorpe’s job to see how he copes.

Here’s hoping everyone enjoys their winter break whatever you are up to…

The call or siren attraction of such shows and new films aren’t the nostalgia they evoke to current audiences (who may not even remember seeing the original), but in the curiosity they may have in finding out how the cultural icon that is the program or older movie is going to be reworked and revamped. The most recent excellent updating of an iconic concept was Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a movie that deeply exceeded expectations but actually being subtle in its emotional treatment of the main character (a drug induced humanized, sentient ape), using state-of-the-art computerized effects to make the fantasy of the smart animal revolution frighteningly real.

The ability of modern moviemakers to combine this kind of dramatic sophistication with the kind of popcorn excitement that will draw bodies to the Cinema in Oxford, is quite impressive when it works. Then are the dozens of duds, like the recent big-screen version of Yogi bear, that make one long for the nuclear annihilation of all filmmakers who dared to make such a poor adaption of the cartoons to the big screen. What often happens in the case of the latter, is that the bookkeepers decide to bog down an original entertainment concept with “elements” that will satisfy the kiddies, the action hounds, the rom-com moms, or other demographics.

The commercial considerations in making and composing a film can actually interfere with what ever positive elements the original movie or TV show concept had, resulting in a mess. Once in a while, the balance between re-imagining the old while satisfying the new audience to create a solid product, as with the recent remake of the Mechanic. The old Charles Bronson movie from 70s is given a nice facelift in this action vehicle (although some may not like the excess graphic violence and sex). The success of remakes often have as much to do with the cast of actors and director making the right choices, that with the nature of the source material – making the whole thing a head and shoulders tossup, trying to figure out whether a new movie will be a smash, or trash.

One of most interesting news about The Dark Knight Rises Scenes is that they are filmed all around the world. The Crew filmed in India, London, Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Newark and Pittsburgh.

]]> http://www.mynewmovies.net/the-dark-knight-rises-scenes-and-poster/feed/ 1 http://www.mynewmovies.net/in-praise-of-the-road-movies/ http://www.mynewmovies.net/in-praise-of-the-road-movies/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:42:42 +0000 admin http://www.mynewmovies.net/?p=1852 There are several genres of movie these days, and we all have our own ideas about which of them is best. While some people prefer a good horror film, or a classy whodunit, they’re not everyone’s bucket of popcorn. For me personally, I would always choose the road movie. The adventures of a character trying to get from A to B in the face of several obstacles are as entertaining as they get. On top of this I love driving my Chevrolet contract hire car so it makes sense that I enjoy the road movie!

In turn, it may be difficult to pinpoint which road movie is the best, purely because we all have different individual tastes. Here are some of my favourites, and while you may or may not agree with them, it’s still fun to read about them anyway.

The Hangover (2009)

A hilarious movie that perhaps typifies the whole genre, it starred Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis as four friends who set out for Las Vegas for a bachelor party. While they get to the Nevada city relatively easily, their problems begin when they wake up on the morning after the night before.

Almost Famous (2000)

A movie about life on the rock circuit, centred on a fictional band called Stillwater. A young journalist covers a tour while attempting to get his work featured in Rolling Stone. The film was directed by Cameron Crowe, and starred Billy Crudup and Kate Hudson. A box office success, it was semi-autobiographical and based on Crowe’s early years in the music press.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

This quirky Coen Brothers offering starred George Clooney as escaped prisoner Ulysses Everett McGill, and featured excellent supporting performances from John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson. Set in 1937, the film is based on the trio’s attempts to find some buried treasure in a valley which is due to be flooded to create a man-made lake.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

An Oliver Stone movie, Natural Born Killers began life as a Quentin Tarantino script. The film depicts the exploits of serial killers Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis). The controversial film pulled no punches, and caused much debate. It had an admirable supporting cast that included Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Downey Jr and Tom Sizemore.

Rain Man (1988)

A touching drama that starred Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman as brothers Charlie and Raymond Babbitt, it featured the adventures of an ambitious yuppie and an autistic savant, and their travels across America. The movie was a worldwide hit and won four Academy Awards, including the Best Actor gong for Hoffman.

Are there any other road movie movies that you enjoy, has your car lease car featured in any of them?

]]> http://www.mynewmovies.net/in-praise-of-the-road-movies/feed/ 1 http://www.mynewmovies.net/arthur-christmas-movie-photos/ http://www.mynewmovies.net/arthur-christmas-movie-photos/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:54:49 +0000 admin http://www.mynewmovies.net/?p=1814 Arthur Christmas it’s one from New Movies in 2011  3-D animation fantasy comedy movie acquired by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation and broadcast by Columbia Pictures. It’s  brought out about November, 2011 in the UK and on November  2011, in the USA. The movie is directed by Sarah Smith, and it features voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Ashley Jensen. Set in the North Pole, the plot tells about Santa’s son Arthur Christmas, who must complete a mission before Christmas morning..

The story of Arthur Christmas revolves around the current Santa Claus, his wife, his two sons Arthur and Steve, and their grandfather, Grand-Santa. Set on Christmas Eve night, the film opens with a set of elves sitting behind their computers in the command center of Santa’s gigantic, ultra-high-tech sleigh. While Santa and the elves deliver presents to children using fancy advanced equipment and military precision, Santa’s oldest son Steve manages the operation at mission control, alongside his obsequious assistant Peter. However, his clumsy younger brother Arthur, who is assigned to handling childrens’ letters in the mail department, inadvertently disrupts operations when he enters mission control to place some correspondence and a present falls out of the system as a result.

]]> http://www.mynewmovies.net/arthur-christmas-movie-photos/feed/ 0 http://www.mynewmovies.net/top-20-best-animated-movie-photographs/ http://www.mynewmovies.net/top-20-best-animated-movie-photographs/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:07:25 +0000 admin http://www.mynewmovies.net/?p=1786 People discuss a lot about their favorite movies, all time best movies and new movies. Everybody love to see their favorite movie more than one time, and almost everybody remembers some of favorite scenes from their best movies. Today’s post show some of the best movie scenes presented in animation (gif) format. Some ot them look really cool and interesting, but some of them are really creepy and scary. Once you see “The Psycho” animation, you will know what we talk about. We found the Alien gif bizarre as well. There are also some funny animations bellow like The Big Lebovski, Shining or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

There are couple movies that we like a lot, but they are not in the list bellow. Those movies are Rounders and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . Their main story revolves around poker and playing. Those two movies show poker playing really realistic and interesting to watch. If you want to see a poker movie with a whole lot of poker action wherein you could actually pick out a tip or two, Rounders is the movie for you. You will see a lot about the underground world of high stakes poker games in this movie. More so, you will even witness cameo appearances – legendary Johnny Chan being one of them. The poker game in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (2000). A slick and direct approach to the filming of a game of brag. The dialogue as Eddie goes from smelling victory to tasting defeat is worth a mention in any poker list. Party Poker is one of most interesting ways among friends to have fun. In movies actors mostly play for big cash, but friends between each other play for chips or for quarters.

Se7en (1995)

L’eclisse (1962)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Straw Dogs (1971)

Fight Club (1999)

Broken Flowers (2005)

Scarface (1983)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Szamanka (1996)

Shining (1980)

Alien (1979)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Contact (1997)

Psycho (1960)

The Pink Panther (1963)

The Godfather (1972)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

True Grit (2010)

Optimus prime is brave, powerful, wise and great leader who improve whole universe around him. He have strong sense for justice and he is dedicated to save life on planet Earth. All previous reasons was enough for unknown Thailand sculptor to create Life-Size sculpture of Optimus Prime from wrecked cars and scraped car parts.