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...part hoot. The dinos can be breathtaking from a distance, especially in the gorgeous underwater scenes; close-up, they're sometimes as convincing as the Sleestacks in Land of the Lost. The narration, while informative, can slip into corny anthropomorphism ("This female Utahraptor is up to no good!"), none of which undercuts the eternal coolness factor of the extinct. Last month Discovery's Raising the Mammoth drew 10.1 million people, the biggest cable-documentary audience ever, and Haines is at work on follow-ups. Thankfully, his stars may be able to crush spines in their powerful jaws, but they...
I was reminded this week of the fact that long ago, my family used to take vacations in places other than Las Vegas. As a six and seven year old, I would whine for a "glamorous" destination where I could hob-nob and sip champagne with celebrities while my older...
Officers Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, Richard Murphy and Edward McMellon were looking for a rapist when they spotted Diallo at the front door of his apartment building. And though other witnesses saw and heard things from a distance, the only close-up testimony comes from the cops. Officer Carroll's...
It's hard watching movies and flipping through magazines without asking incredulously--how can these stars look like that all the freaking time? How can these humans (presumably) never have a pimple? Some very bored Internet junkie has taken upon himself the responsibility of exposing (literally!) Hollywood with www.skinema.com, a...
What would you do for a job--a menial, drudging job in a bakery or selling clothes that never were in fashion? If you are Rosetta (Emilie Dequenne), a teenager in today's depressed Belgium, the answer is anything. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta, which earned this year...