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CNN reports here: “Looking back, I find I’ve written more than 350 film reviews over the past 12 months. That’s a lot of time sitting in the dark, especially when you’re challenged to whittle them all down to the best 20 hours or so for the annual top 10 list.”  What movies where your favorites this year?

The Top Ten Books in today’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten Books here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store with those and many more great books that make some nice gifts! (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)

And The Top Ten Books This Week are:

• Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
• New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)
• Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga Book 4)
• Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
• The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio: How to Build and Grow a Panic-Proof Investment Portfolio
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition

The Top Ten New LCD HDTV Flat-Panel Releases in this week’s Bestellers List at Amazon, please see The Top Ten New LCD Flat-Panel Releases here for more information including some reader reviews in our online store.

New LCD HDTV Releases:

• Axion AXN-8701 7-Inch Widescreen Portable Handheld TV with Built-In Tuner (Black)
• Sharp Aquos LC42D85U 42-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV
• Sony Bravia L-Series KDL-22L4000 22-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
• Sony Bravia XBR Series KDL-52XBR7 52-Inch 240Hz 1080p LCD HDTV
• Vizio 37-inch VOJ370 1080p LCD HDTV with Dual TV tuners, SRS TruSurround XT audio
• TV 8.5 LCD/DIGITAL TUNER W/AC/DC PWRCRD
• Toshiba 15LV506 15.6-Inch Widescreen LCD TV with Built in DVD, White
• Philips 52PFL5603D/F7 52-Inch 1920 x 1080p LCD HDTV (Black)
• Articulating Arm Wall Mount for Samsung LN52A630 52″ 1080p LCD TV
• Sony Bravia S-Series KDL-52S4100 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV

See the Editors’ Picks: The Top 50 Blu-ray Discs of 2008 here on this page served from Amazon.

The Top Ten of the Editors’ Picks Blu-ray Discs of 2008 are:

• The Dark Knight (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]
• Wall-E (Two-Disc and BD Live) [Blu-ray]
• Iron Man (Ultimate Two-Disc Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]
• Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]
• Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]
• Batman Begins [Blu-ray]
• Incredible Hulk [Blu-ray]
• The Ultimate Matrix Collection [Blu-ray]
• Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Platinum Edition + Standard DVD and BD Live) [Blu-ray]
• Hancock (Unrated) [Blu-ray]

Wii Music – When it comes to music and rhythm games, Wii Music stands in a class of its own. Unlike other music games, which penalize players if they don’t play perfectly, Wii Music is a musical playground where there are no mistakes. Here anyone can pick up and master the huge array of instruments available, through simple motions like strumming and drumming. Musicians in your band jam by simply playing their instruments to the beat of a song or by improvising to their heart’s content. Play faster. Play slower. Skip a beat, or throw in 10 more. No matter what you do, Wii Music automatically transforms your improv stylings into great music.

You can play most of the 60-plus instruments in Wii Music using simple motions with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers. Strum to play guitar, banjo and sitar. Drum to play jazz drums, congas and marching drums. Hammer away to play piano, vibraphone and marimba. Unlike most music games, Wii Music doesn’t make you use complex buttons. You only need to imitate playing the instrument. Wii Music offers virtually endless ways to make music.

My personal recommendation is this amazing top rated series from BBC: Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series Description: As of its release in early 2007, Planet Earth is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. Following the similarly monumental achievement of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, this astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you’ll ever experience from the comforts of home. The premiere episode, “From Pole to Pole,” serves as a primer for things to come, placing the entire series in proper context and giving a general overview of what to expect from each individual episode. Without being overtly political, the series maintains a consistent and subtle emphasis on the urgent need for ongoing conservation, best illustrated by the plight of polar bears whose very behavior is changing (to accommodate life-threatening changes in their fast-melting habitat) in the wake of global warming–a phenomenon that this series appropriately presents as scientific fact. With this harsh reality as subtext, the series proceeds to accentuate the positive, delivering a seemingly endless variety of natural wonders, from the spectacular mating displays of New Guinea’s various birds of paradise to a rare encounter with Siberia’s nearly-extinct Amur Leopards, of which only 30 remain in the wild. And that’s just a hint of the marvels on display.

The Top Ten Books in today’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten Books here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store with those and many more great books that make some nice gifts! (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)

And The Top Ten Books Today are:

• Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
• New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• The Twilight Saga: Slipcased
• Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
• The Shack
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)

PC World reports here at Yahoo News: Sales of Blu-ray players in 2008 aren’t exactly stellar, despite lower prices and the lack of competition from the recently departed HD-DVD format. But are things looking up for Blu-ray? Recent reports indicate that 2009 may bring better times for Sony’s high-def video format.

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