Action-Adventure Movies Sweep Box Office Totals

Blockbuster hits do have something in common. Their stories catapult audiences on a thrilling action-filled adventure. Many factors affect the bottom line, but more than anything, success rests on an engaging plot that keeps viewers glued to their seats. Studios often use...

Lit Chick Corner talks with multi-genre author Raven West

Welcome to ‘The Lit Chick Corner’ (LCC), a weekly column dedicated to all those hardworking, and often unrewarded, authors who are promoting their work. So be it fiction or non-fiction, my aim is to introduce the...

Malaria Paris, french couple hospitalized, never left France

«paludisme d'aéroport», near the airports it can happen that tourist aircraftsbring malaria infected mosquitoes with them, called "Airport Malaria" The youngFrench couple was on the way from Paris airport to...

'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws

""Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws. Trichobatrachus...

Whinestone Cowboys

Opinion, probably an opinion shared by many."Sometimes I seriously question whether listening to music, watching sitcoms, or many other forms of entertainment are worth it. Our robust appetite for...

Basquiat and Banksy to cover auction in graffiti

"Daubing the subways of New York in the 1980s with provocative images that shocked the establishment was how it all started. Two decades later, Jean-Michel Basquiat,  Keith Haring and David Salle are being...

Tarantino brings spaghetti westerns to Venice Film Fest

It looks like a really good year for the VFF overall, but definitely the coolest part is this: "The line-up for this year's Venice Film Festival has been announced, with 32 spaghetti westerns on the bill. The...

We'd Rather Just Poke Each Other

Social Networking sites are, for the first time, beginning to rival porn sites in terms of sheer traffic. While porn remains the number one destination for American web users, the social networks whose...

Why 'Sci-Fi' doesn't fly

The following is an excerpt from Jason Silverman's excellent piece about the label "Science-Fiction" and why the big wigs behind TV, film and books don't want the label applied to their work. His point is...

New genre of video games target mental health

There's a study on a game where you answer some questions to get an idea of your daily emotional and mental health. The findings (whether this game with lots of "smiley faces" can improve your self-esteem and lower stress) will be released later this year, but they are...

Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt dies at 88

"MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, died Tuesday. He was 88. Hunt died after a lengthy bout with pneumonia, according...

SONIC

" The Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor) is a widespread, medium-sized, omnivorous mammal of North America. It has black facial colorings around the eyes, and has a bushy tail with light and dark alternating rings. The coat is a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur. The...

I Admit It: I Liked The Fountain

" Richard Corliss risks expulsion from the movie critics' guild with this review of a woozy romantic epic. Movies critics can't agree on much, but there's one assumption most of them hold deeply without ever discussing it. It's that a film that says life is crap is...

Beauty Is In The Eyes Of The Ancients

"A friend of mine arrived from Lagos recently with a wonderful gift, he knows that I enjoy traditional music of the highlife genre and so felt that Sonny Bobo would be up my street. The dude did not disappoint. If you love Owerri language and enjoy Owerri delicacies such as...

The Berlin Porn Festival: Alternative Smut for the Silver Screen

"Ever get the feeling that traditional hardcore is just plain boring? Then alt porn may be the genre for you. Goths, punks and skaters have emerged out of the Internet and into the cinema in Berlin's first ever porn film festival."

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