PoV: 28 Weeks Later

Step 1: Killed the Infected Step 2: Containment Step 3: Extermination Theseare the words which I remember clearly after watching the film. 28Weeks Later starts with a group of people preparing and waiting to havetheir lunch in a cottage in London when a kid banging the door...

9 Worst popular movies in recent memory

"This was made from Alice Walker’s book, Why I Don’t Like American Black Men. Judging from the pictures on the dust jackets, I don’t think she’s their type either."

Action Movies Are Milla Jovovich's Favourite

"Best known for her bandaged costume in The Fifth Element, apart from her adrenaline-pumping action sequences in the Resident Evil series, Milla Jovovich is back once again. This time she reprises her role as Alice in the third series of Resident Evil: Extinction. An actress,...

Fame? Author Stephen King Mistaken for Bookstore Vandal

From the lighter side of the news, bookstore staffers now have very red faces after thinking King, making an unannounced visit, was vandalizing books."Author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he started signing books during an unannounced visit to a shop in...

Alcohol ban for Australian town

"The town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory has become a dry zone, with drinking banned in all public places. The move was instigated by local people who wanted to curb crime and violence."

Aborigines threaten tourist ban

"Aboriginal elders are threatening to ban tourists from one of Australia's landmarks over a plan to curb child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities. The threat to close Uluru, or Ayers Rock, comes amid growing alarm. Some 50 community, church and indigenous groups are meeting...

Lord of the Blings: Peter Jackson Scores $100 Million Deal

That's a one with eight zeroes after it, just for the record: Peter Jackson, who first burst onto the international scene with Heavenly Creatures 13 years ago, has secured a deal with Dreamworks to produce and direct the adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller The Lovely...

Column: BIA the black hole of information requests

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise, what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" That gibberish from the title character in "Alice's...

Eakins painting sells for $68 million (AP)

" WASHINGTON - The National Gallery is buying one of the 19th century's best-known American paintings, "The Gross Clinic" by Thomas Eakins, for a record $68 million. The sale price sets a record for a pre-World War II work of art created in the United States, The New York...