All My Faves

JayCut – With the ambitious goal of making videos like putty in the hands of users, JayCut offers free online video editing service that invites users to become fully engaged with videos rather than simply watching them.

Create and edit your very own video and edit it like a pro with JayCut’s easy and intuitive editor. This software is completely free, and it saves time so you can create your masterpiece in no time! To learn more about JauCut’s online editor, I recommend exploring the demo (click the image below).

NFB/Interative: Crash Course – Brought to us by the National Film Board of Canada, Crash Course is the creative project of Nobu Adilman and The Secret Location, exploring innovative perspectives on the US recession, in Argentina. Sounds crazy? Wait till you find out the connection between Tango lessons and a slow economy. Prepare yourself for an amazing interactive experience. This is simply a must.

Metacritic – This Entertainment hub by CBS Interactive is here to help you find “stuff you’ll love” by offering you the top rated finds in games, music, movies and TV. Top rated means the entertainment items that scored the highest by Metacritic’s well, critics… You, the user, are invited to give your own score to each entry Metacritic offers you, and this helps other users to get a good idea about the quality and rank of any given item.

For my test run I searched for a prospect present I’m considering buying for my boyfirend: the new Call of Duty game (Black Ops) for PS3. Metacritic beautifully lays out before me all the information I could possible want to know about this game including its ratings by both critics (‘Metascore’ they call it) and users, and a link to the game’s official website. Here’s a screen shot of the page for Call of Duty: Black Ops:

My final words on Metacritic? Great entertainment recommendation site that truly offers filtered, high quality games, music, movies and TV shows suggestions.

SideReel – If you’re looking for a site like Hulu, that allows you to watch full TV show episodes online for free, SideReel is an excellent choice. It offers excellent streaming quality of the best TV shows, films and Web TV, for free. It’s also about a lot more than just the episodes, providing original talk-show style video blogs about news from your favorite shows.

The featured free TV show links are only available to US users, but if you do some exploring, you’ll find lots of links to all the episodes of whatever show you’re looking for. I found this episode from Modern Family season 3 that way using SideReel.

Now if you found all that a little stressful, don’t worry. We’ve created an AllMyFaves Free Online TV Homepage, and we think you’re gonna love it! We made it especially to make it easier for you to watch TV online for free.

It contains two tabs to explore: “Top TV Sites”, which links you directly to all the best free TV streaming sites on the internet; and “Top TV Shows”, which takes you to the absolute best site to watch your favorite shows online, like Glee, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, How I Met Your Mother, and tons more. Click the pic below or check it out here!

Don’t forget to subscribe & stay tuned for more reviews of TV streaming sites like SideReel. At All My Faves, we’re dedicated to making it easier to find the things you love on the internet. You can even create your own personalized homepage, complete with all the best free TV online links, among loads of other cool categories. Click here to learn more about All My Faves.

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Partigi - If you trust your friends and their advice, Partigi is a tool you will enjoy using. Before rushing to see that supposedly promising movie at the cinema, visit Partigi and see what others say about the film first. It just might save you some hard cash and big disappointments.

In a nutshell, Partigi is an online notebook to keep track of films and TV shows you have seen and want to see, share them with  friends and get recommendations and info on other films you might be interested in. Partigi also includes books and video games categories.

For more on how to use Partigi, click here. In the meantime, why not browse the list of all-time best movies? Click the image below for the complete list.

Everyone – One of the most inspiring media projects I’ve seen in a while, Everyone is a production company based in NY and Los Angeles. Having an impressive history of past clients such as NPR, Radiolab and Mediacom, Everyone is a visual content virtuoso, cleverly presenting the subtlety, oddity, beauty and narratives of the modern human culture.

There is no other way for you to understand what I’m referring to without sitting down for a couple of minutes and seeing the majestic power of superbly edited and shot, short movie stories of Everyone. See Words, my current favorite, below (by Everyone, in collaboration with WNYC’s Radiolab and NPR; directed by Daniel Mercadante & Will Hoffman; Supervising Producer: Robert Krulwich; Original Score: Keith Kenniff (unseen-music.com).

fflick – Going to the cinema is still quite magical in my view; the big screen, the comfy seats and the smell of popcorn make the cinematic experience totally worth it. On the other hand, great entertainment is seldom free and a trip to the cinema costs an average of $12 (and that excludes gas expenses, snacks and beverages). Want to make sure your twelve bucks are well spent? Check out fflick.

Based on movies’ buzz on the Web that’s coming from Twitter feeds of users all over, fflick tells you which movies are worth your trip to the theaters. If you have a public Twitter account then you’re automatically a fflick member, which makes it really easy to find out which movies you should go and see. The fflick concept is so simple and so useful we just had to make it a Weekly Fave. Don’t you agree? See the screen shot below of the detailed review page of the movie Mao’s Last Dancer which really moved me. Highly recommended!

Zapple.tv – Explore the wonders and creativity behind the amazing collection of creative short movies at Zapple.tv. Browse the various categories (from animation and art to action, drama, even sci-fi). See movies from all over the world, appreciate the power that lies in global talent, and feel free to submit a short movie of your own.
It was very difficult for me to choose just one movie to share with you guys, but I finally narrowed it down to the Italian movie, Notte Sento (with English subtitles), by Urban Team. You can also see the movie below. Enjoy.

Inception: The Cobol Job – Forget about conventional, 2-minute video trailer for movies. That’s so old and boring. The Yahoo! Inception: The Cobol Job movie is a totally new and innovative way of getting a glimpse of the upcoming action movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Even if you’re not into comics, the interface of this unusual trailer manages to emphasize intense plot moments by varying the navigation speed and direction from one story frame to another. This is simply amazing and it did the job: I’m psyched about the movie! Currently in theaters (and Imax). By the way, you can download the entire comics story line in PDF.

Life In A Day – Prepare yourself for a first of its kind documentary film, produced by the legendary Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald, starring YOU! This amazing collaborative project with Google aims to create a collective documentary film, made up exclusively of footage shot and submitted by users. Here’s what you need to do: “On 24 July, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, exclusively produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.”

To learn more about the Life In A Day project, check out this public document, and be sure to visit the YouTube channel for it. The finished film will be premiered sometime in early 2011. An announcement of the film’s exact premier date will be provided later on on the YouTube page. I bet we’re going to see some amazing stuff. Stay tuned.

 RunPee – Don’t you just hate it when you’re watching a movie and then get that sneaking sensation that you have to go and pee? RunPee tells you when is the best moment to run to the restroom while a movie is playing without you missing a crucial plot moment. Don’t worry; it will also fill you in on what happened during your absence. You get to see the movie at its fullest and enjoy a quick break for the restrooms.

For ease of use, RunPee recently released an iPhone app which lets you check the info instantly while in the theater. How cool is that?