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...Elizabeth: The Golden Age? Better, perhaps, to call this Elizabeth: The Frenzied Years - especially since the film's director, Shekhar Kapur, suffers from an advanced case of restless camera syndrome. Tracking shots, twisting boom shots, placements that are either radically high or low - they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material. And why should he? The statecraft of 400 years ago is not the stuff of great movies - all mutterings in the shadows about geopolitical issues that the screenwriters, William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, prefer not to go into. That leaves Kapur with the Elizabeth-Raleigh thing...
...crop surveillance. The Defense Department has been funding such research for years, and now labs from coast to coast are starting to deliver promising results--like Harvard's microrobotic fly, below, that can beat its wings 110 times per second. The bug has yet to be outfitted with a camera or a self-contained power source...
...Affleck clearly spent most of the less than $20 million budget on giving the actors plenty of time to perfect their swing rather than on effects or fancy camera shots. Casey indeed nails it as the punk who's always having to punch above his weight, and there's a jaw-dropping performance from the not- well-known Amy Ryan as possibly the coarsest woman on the Eastern seaboard...
...continues to support the vetoed bill that would expand the program to 4 million more children, they are hoping to remove themselves from the middle of the storm. After giving a few interviews, Halsey and Bonnie Frost now say they don't want to say anything more, though network camera crews have planted themselves in front of their house...
After seeing previously undisclosed (and unremarkable) security camera video of Diana and Al Fayed and receiving details about that fatal night during briefings in London last week, the six women and five men accompanied Judge Baker to Paris Monday to get a firsthand view of the route that led the couple to their deaths. That journey began at the swank Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome, and continued to the Place de la Concorde and the unscheduled rendezvous with the press pack waiting to pounce. The jurors were then driven by bus down the long, straight expressway that eventually dips...