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...that of Spider-Man 3 or the last Harry Potter movie.) This time, instead of re-creating a cruise ship, Cameron created a whole new world, using technologies he waited nearly a decade to see come to fruition. The man who built the Titanic became the God of the Old Testament - or at least J.R.R. Tolkien - summoning previously unseen lands from his majestic imagination. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
That also makes Avatar a throwback to ancient movie days, when films about men and women seduced the mass audience. And because it works splendidly as spectacle and love story, Cameron's picture is worthy of comparison to the great old epics. The world beater is also a heartbreaker, if you just open your eyes...
Mourning Sickness In modern movies, when a father and daughter are shown in an affectionate relationship, you know one of them has to die. Thomas Craven, the cop, is walking into his house with his 24-year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) when she is gunned down. The official suspicion is that Craven was the target, but he soon learns that she had been engaged in antinuclear espionage at Northmoor, a nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade...
...science and health. Michael Elliott, TIME's international editor, has been steering the content and ideas for the forum from our end. As he says, "We've given the conference the title the New Global Opportunity because there's a realization that we can't go back to the old ways. Growth has to be inclusive and sustainable. And the role and potential of those who have been marginalized in the past--the poor, especially women and girls--will only grow...
...Times is in the same fix as most other old-media outlets, including this magazine. Online ads don't bring in enough to support the massive news operation that attracts those 17 million people. Last year, the Times won five Pulitzer Prizes - and borrowed $250 million from a Mexican billionaire to keep the lights on. (See the top 10 newspaper movies...