All is not well in the water front

The picture was taken near Sagar in Sunderbans, West Bengal. Sunderbans is an archipelago traversed by countless creeks, streams and rivers, consisting of the largest mangrove forest in the world. The area...

Gears of War Gets Big Screen Treatment

I've actually heard younger kids referring to Mad World as "that Gears of War song", because of the ubiquitous advert featuring a lone futuristic soldier facing a gigantic alien bug to the tune of the Tears for Fears classic.Now Gears gets the big-screen treatment. I predict...

New Trailer for Max Payne Movie Released

I have to admit, video game movies usually don't do very well. It's very difficult to translate a more interactive, hands-on experience into a passive one like a movie, and often the gimmicks or sheer fun of playing the game helped a gamer look past a shoddy plot and poor...

Lungless Frog Adaptation Reduces Buoyancy :: Oblate Spheroid

"Barbourula Kalimantanensis - The frog, which has no lungs and breathes through its skin, was found in a remote part of Indonesia's Kalimantan province on Borneo island, a discovery that researchers said...

Pixar and Disney Reveal their Slate of Animated Offerings

From gourmandizing rats and superheroing families, Pixar's next step will be into the robo-world of Wall-E. Disney and Pixar showed off the first half-hour of the film (link to Latino Review's review, spoiler...

Cuba's IT Underground - It's On The Stick! :: MAXINE

" UPDATE: English Language Video Link>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smyYg45bKEg Cuba's IT Underground - It's On The Stick!  Necessity is the mother of invention – or in this case adaptation....

Agent Scully to Host Masterpiece Theatre

Since striking sci-fi gold with her starring role as Agent Dana Scully on the X-Files, Gillian Anderson has been trying to expand her range. First, there was her moody attempt to speak/sing over earnest 90s...

Will Smith gives away ending of I Am Legend

Has Will Smith jeopardized his position as "the most powerful actor in Hollywood"? On Tuesday, the actor inadvertently let the ending of his latest film, I Am Legend, slip during a press conference in Tokyo. Yet...

Not Another Teen Chainsaw Movie

Coming sometime soonish is the film adaptation of Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge... I've never read it, but you gotta admit that the title is catchy. At risk of generalizing by country, Japan has a great track...

Lily Allen's Younger Brother, Alfie Owen-Allen, To Star In Equus

"Alfie Owen-Allen, the younger brother of the singer Lily Allen, is to star in the psychological stage drama Equus after his performance in a marginal film role so impressed the play's scriptwriter, Peter Shaffer, that he ordered its producer to recruit him. Shaffer, who...

Princess Di: A Conspiracy, At Least on TV

I'm not sure I agree with the American angle, as I see this as a pretty English story. I was just back the US when DI was killed, eating dinner at a microbrewery. Mine was the only expression in the whole place...

Will a Comedy Version of "Dallas" Kill JR?

Regency and 20th Century Fox will shoot JR... the two studios are working on the big-screen version of the classic prime-time drama Dallas, which featured Larry Hagman (he of I Dream of Jeannie fame) as the...

Why The Simpsons flopped in the Middle East

One can assume APU the lively shopkeep is stereotyped as a burly red neck Calgarian. Though it has to be a stretch how the other characters who liven the show are omitted. But then we have mosque on the prairie....

Dark Age Religions vs Western Society

May 12, 2007 By Barry Artiste (Now Public Contributor) Vancouver, BC Nostradmous stated on Religion "The End of the World will begin in the Middle East". Pretty scary prediction, that may ring true for some in...

The Seven Weapons That Changed The World

"The blood-spattered spectacle of 300 has done more than any film since Gladiator to rekindle American interest in Ancient warfare. The cartoonish depiction of the Spartan military alongside the incalculable...

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