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...March of the Penguins category of adorable documentary, Disney offered Earth, a cut-down and cuted-up version of the 2006 BBC series Planet Earth. Mixing and milking the week's two do-gooder events - Earth Day and Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Disney fashioned its own Take Your Kid to a Movie Called Earth Day and harvested a very green $4 million on its Wednesday opening. That 24-hr. gesture must have exhausted American moviegoers' impulse to save the planet, for in the next four days, including the weekend, Earth didn't come near the daily...
...friend and college roommate. Accompanied by Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), a young but eager political blogger for The Globe, Cal discovers that at the center of the plot is PointCorp, a private company bidding for Defense Department contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan that Collins is investigating.Based on a BBC television miniseries, the film follows the basic conventions of a political thriller. Macdonald includes the obligatory love triangle as well as the requisite parking garage chase scene that we’ve seen so many times before. The movie bears a passing resemblance to other classic political thrillers such...
...There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist." - On corruption charges against him being dropped before this week's elections. (BBC, April...
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...successful candidate will help MI5 grapple with terrorism, work to stymie the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and sharpen its surveillance and counter-intelligence efforts. "There's an enormous amount of scientific content in this role," Professor John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, told the BBC. On top of that, "it will involve a sort of future gazing to see where technology will be taking us in a year...