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...Marines broke down the two doors simultaneously and fired their weapons. The officials say the military has confirmed that seven people were killed inside the house--including two women and a child. The Marines also reported seeing a man and a woman run out of the house; they gave chase and shot and killed the man. Relatives say the woman, Hiba Abdullah, escaped with her baby...
...been taken hostage by computer-generated imagery (CGI), stock stories and shallow characters. To rattle the cage, he says, "we had to think of something utterly different." The Mad Maya hero in Apocalypto is Jaguar Paw. His escape through the Mexican rain forest will "feel like a car chase that just keeps turning the screws," says Gibson, flashing one of his patented bug-eyed expressions. True to the no-pain, no-gain credo of his other films, Apocalypto seeks to deliver enough pre-Columbian punishment--like the decidedly non-CGI mauling of a character by an animal--to rival...
Gibson is betting the chase will feel even hairier thanks to a new digital camera system, Panavision's Genesis, that yields a "tremendous sensation of velocity," says cinematographer Dean Semler, who won an Oscar for Dances with Wolves. All the doom and zoom sound fun, but the ancient Maya are also called the Greeks of the New World--they invented the concept of zero, built astonishing cities and used a more complex calendar than ours. Gibson insists the glory gets its close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project...
...their lives, Junelyn finally persuades her daughter to come with her - and then cries with relief. Later, the daughter says she has been on a tuna boat; she spent the previous night in a hotel room with Atto, a 20-year-old Asian sailor from the Sea Chase, who paid her for the night. Under Solomon Islands law, defiling a girl under 13 carries a life sentence, but Atto is unlikely to face prosecution. Junelyn and her daughter just want to return to their home island, and have no plans to go to the police...
...Death Defier” we meet Donk, an overweight war photographer, amidst combat in Afghanistan. When his travel companion takes ill, Donk is forced to chase down a cure in the scorching valleys of humvees and American soldiers...