News Cannes: The 10 hottest movies
05-18-2013
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salon.com
From Sofia Coppola's "Bling Ring" to Ryan Gosling's latest, these movies will heat up a chilly South of France
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News J.J. ABRAMS Talks STAR TREK vs. STAR WARS on The Daily Show
05-16-2013
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space.com
J.J. Abrams, the director of this week's Star Trek: Into Darkness and 2015's Star Wars Episode VII talks about not liking Trek as a kid and the differences between the franchises with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
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News "No Way Home" a film and the truth for many
05-13-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
Sometimes home is as far as away you can get from those related to you by blood.
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News CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals
05-08-2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ben Child
Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47
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News First Ender’s Game Trailer Has Kids, Alien War, Ben Kingsley
05-07-2013
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Angela Watercutter via WIRED.com
In case Iron Man 3 didn’t have enough Ben Kingsley for you (and really, there’s never too much Kingsley), Summit has released the first trailer for Ender’s Game
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News Commentary on Disasters, Tragedies, & Government {& recommendation of film “Tsunami –The Aftermath**
05-06-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
One of the last nails into the coffin containing my illusion that governments care about protecting the well-being of people occurred following the horrendous tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004. I buried the illusion a few years later.
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News Diehard Fans Are Bringing Astonishing Prop Replicas to a Garage Near You
05-06-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Summer movie season kicks off this weekend with the release of Iron Man 3, the perfect inspiration to build your own suit of power armor and recreate iconic superhero scenes.
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News Exoskeletons, Lasers, and Jet Packs: How to Be a Real-Life Iron Man
05-04-2013
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Wired.com
Aside from the (admittedly considerable) appeal of watching Robert Downey Jr. crack wise as billionaire genius-turned-superhero Tony Stark, perhaps the biggest lure of Marvel's Iron Man movies is finding out just what kind of amazing toys and gadgets
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News The 10 Worst Superhero Movies of the Past 10 Years
05-04-2013
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rollingstone.com
The superhero genre as a high form of cinematic expression, a notion established in 1978 by Richard Donner (Superman) and extended eleven years later by Tim Burton (Batman), was somehow lost over the intervening two decades.
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News Truthdigger of the Week: Jeremy Scahill
05-01-2013
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Alexander Reed Kelly
The task of exposing the stark truth has always belonged to the independent journalist. With his new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” Jeremy Scahill renews this tradition by bringing the last decade of clandestine war making by the Amer
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News U.S. Army veteran 'is found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down...
05-01-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By James Nye
An elderly man found living in south-central Vietnam has claimed to be a U.S. war veteran who was presumed dead after his helicopter was shot down during a special ops mission over Laos in 1968.
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News Watch Aaron Swartz Get Interviewed Months Before His Suicide
04-29-2013
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Wired.com
Three young New York filmmakers sought to document how the internet is largely controlled by profit-seeking corporations, even as it has evolved into the world’s gateway for speech.
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News New Documentary Says This US Soldier Is Alive In Vietnam 44 Years After Being Left Behind
04-26-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The new documentary "Unclaimed" purports to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over in Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades.
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News Who’s Who in Iron Man 3: The Arc Reactor Infographic
04-26-2013
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Wired.com
In the upcoming film Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr. reprises the role of Tony Stark, brilliant technologist turned armored superhero, to battle the terrorist cult leader known as the Mandarin
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News Netflix adds three million subscribers, looks for more original content
04-23-2013
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thedroidguy.com
The behemoth movie streaming service Netflix has grown substantially in the past few years, with US movie and TV addicts craving for anything new on the service.
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News Psychic Erik Jan Hanussen, Hitler/Nazis, with my recommendation of film “Invincible”
04-23-2013
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C. Smith Blog
No more fascinating a story of a man during Hitler’s rise to power than that of Erik Jan Hanussen, a man whose psychic abilities catapulted him and Hitler in the public eye.
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News The Many Men of Steel: A Look Back at Superman’s 75 Years
04-21-2013
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Wired.com
Happy Birthday, Superman - Or, as the new Man of Steel trailer would have it, "Su[insert distracting noise]."
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News Watch The Audition Tapes That Made Celebrities Famous
04-19-2013
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Business Insider
It only takes one special role to launch a career on the A-list.
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News How Pixar Used Moore’s Law to Predict the Future
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Alvy Ray Smith
Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore’s Law has been going strong.
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News Russell Crowe Sends Superman To Earth In New 'Man of Steel' Trailer
04-17-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna
This is the trailer we've been waiting to debut.
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News Benedict Cumberbatch Menaces Kirk in New Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Angela Watercutter
Even though they dare not speak his name, the latest trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness (in theaters May 17) promises Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing the biggest bad-bad bad guy in the history of ever.
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Opinion Fascist Nation
Silver Circle (2013) - A Movie Review
04-12-2013 Powell Gammill
If you get the opportunity to see this movie please do. If you can order it online or a DVD or Blueray in the future I would recommend doing so. I am not going to say it is OMG great, but it is worth your time and money and as an activist tool.
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News Trance’s Danny Boyle on the Power of Hypnotism and the Dark Side of the Olympics
04-12-2013
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Wired.com
When nearly a billion people watched your last project, it’s not an obvious move to follow up with a low-budget, pitch-black mindfuck of a movie.
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Headlines: Trance’s Danny Boyle on the Power of Hypnotism and the Dark Side of the Olympics -- Silver Circle (2013) - A Movie Review -- Benedict Cumberbatch Menaces Kirk in New Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer -- Russell Crowe Sends Superman To Earth In New 'Man of Steel' Trailer -- How Pixar Used Moore’s Law to Predict the Future -- Watch The Audition Tapes That Made Celebrities Famous
-- The Many Men of Steel: A Look Back at Superman’s 75 Years -- Psychic Erik Jan Hanussen, Hitler/Nazis, with my recommendation of film “Invincible” -- Netflix adds three million subscribers, looks for more original content
-- Who’s Who in Iron Man 3: The Arc Reactor Infographic -- New Documentary Says This US Soldier Is Alive In Vietnam 44 Years After Being Left Behind -- Watch Aaron Swartz Get Interviewed Months Before His Suicide -- U.S. Army veteran 'is found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down... -- Truthdigger of the Week: Jeremy Scahill -- The 10 Worst Superhero Movies of the Past 10 Years
-- Exoskeletons, Lasers, and Jet Packs: How to Be a Real-Life Iron Man -- Diehard Fans Are Bringing Astonishing Prop Replicas to a Garage Near You -- Commentary on Disasters, Tragedies, & Government {& recommendation of film “Tsunami –The Aftermath** -- 05-07-13 -- Chuck Untersee - Steve Elswick (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- First Ender’s Game Trailer Has Kids, Alien War, Ben Kingsley -- CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals -- "No Way Home" a film and the truth for many -- J.J. ABRAMS Talks STAR TREK vs. STAR WARS on The Daily Show -- Cannes: The 10 hottest movies --