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Despite the film’s derivative script, the special effects are simply suburb. The title sequence of the film is a dazzling sequence of mythological imagery that makes the cost of watching the film in 3D justified (though the rest of film is probably just as good in 2D). The kraken and the giant scorpions were also fun to watch and the computer graphics were seamless interwoven with the actors’ interactions. Medusa stands out as a particularly stunning and realistic computer-generated character. Her movements and incredibly seamless facial...
...grenade-like blue heart, “Clash of the Titans” is generally worth seeing. The film is fun and entertaining, both intentionally and unintentionally. Just don’t watch the film hoping to be awed by anything other than the special effects...
Trained as a computer scientist and mathematician, Knep can relate to the scientific perspective and use that background in his role as a new media artist. Using modern tools of science and technology, which he once worked with in the special effects industry, Knep appropriates universal themes of change, healing, struggle, and acceptance to address the impact of science on our lives...
...This jaw dropper may not rank up there with TIME's famous "Is God Dead?" cover in 1966, but from a restaurant owner's point of view, it's close. Nation's Restaurant News recently ran a special report on "feeding the needs of a new America," in which the long-running trade publication pronounces the average diner a piece of history, vanished to the same eternal twilight as the powdered wig, the liberal consensus and mounted cavalry. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...special report contains a somewhat sinister revelation as well. "The divide between haves and have-nots is growing," Nation's Restaurant News comments, stating the obvious. Francese didn't really have an answer for how this plays out in the kitchen, or at least not one he was willing to share. (He hems and haws about more customer questionnaires being needed.) But the answer's there in the article, in one of the responses the paper got to its survey about changing tastes. The owner of a Boston gastropub takes note of its guests' "increasingly open desire for more stimulation...