C|NET weighs in on the new 3.7 oz. Apple iPod.
Capable of holding 74 hours of mp3 music on its 4GB hard drive, Apple’s fashionable new digital player has been designated “best-of-breed” for its design and interface features. Available in five colours (blue, green, silver, pink and gold), the iPod mini sports excellent playlist features, clean, configurable sound, smooth syncing with your PC, and the ability to organize your contacts list.
The iPod mini’s 1.67 inch (diagonal) backlit screen displays full song names and more, as does its predecessors, and still gives you over 25 minutes of skip protection with a battery that lasts up to 8 hours on a single battery charge (so you won’t pay a penalty for miniaturization). Still and all, at almost $350 Canadian the cost of Apple’s new iPod is dear, indeed.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Count down to the Cannes Film Festival, May 12 to 23
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s “La Mala Educacion” (Bad Education) will kick off the prestigious Festival de Cannes in May, the first time a Spanish movie has opened the event, organizers said Friday. The film concerns a friendship between two boys and a priest, which starts in the 1960s and runs over three decades.
Weekend Box Office Results
Some weekends, Hollywood aims for the whole pie as Sony Pictures did last week when it launched 50 First Dates in 3,591 theaters, taking home a record haul of $45.1 million. But other weekends, the studio distribution chiefs consider themselves lucky if they manage to walk away with a slice.
And that was the case this weekend as four wide releases — each of which appeals to a separate sector of the market — jostled for attention. None was in a position to knock “Dates” out of the top slot, and none did.
Still and all, Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano has to be a little worried about his prospects for big screen stardom.
MovieCityNews’ Leonard Klady offers his weekend box-office analysis here.
Lead-Up to Oscar: Hollywood Writers Honour Coppola, ‘Splendor’
 Director Sofia Coppola |
Hollywood’s screenwriters on Saturday snubbed the final installment of the highly acclaimed “Lord of the Rings”.
American Splendor, which revolves around the travails of comics connoisseur Harvey Pekar, won the Writers Guild of America Award for best adapted screenplay, while writer/director Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, about a pair of mismatched Americans languishing in Tokyo, nabbed the trophy for original screenplay.