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Film review: After Earth
AFTER EARTH (M) (100 min) Directed by M. Knight Shyamalan
Crowe walks in Brando’s footsteps
A few years after Marlon Brando’s 2004 death, Russell Crowe was contacted by a woman possessing a special package. The woman was one of Brando’s close friends and the acting great had entrusted her to locate Crowe and present him with a book of poetry, There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves, by American author James Kavanaugh.
Cross sad to see Doctor Who actor go
Kiwi screenwriter Neil Cross, who wrote lines for actor Matt Smith in Doctor Who, says he will miss the actor desperately. The BBC this week announced Smith would leave the show after four years in the role of the renegade twin hearted Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey at the end of this year’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
Newcomer to direct Jurassic Park 4
Colin Trevorrow is taking the reins of
The Global Village Finally Arrives
This is the typical day of a relatively typical soul in today’s diversified world. I wake up to the sound of my Japanese clock radio, put on a T shirt sent me by an uncle in Nigeria and walk out into the street, past German cars, to my office.
Rogue planets! Scientists detect Jupiter-sized roamers inside the Milky Way
The bitterly fought Pluto wars of a few years back showed that even the experts disagree on what is and what isn’t a planet. One thing there’s no quarrel about, of course: a planet is, by definition, something that orbits a star.
Mars Probe Reveals Dry Ice, Pointing to a Wetter Past
Mars is a dry, frigid, dusty, nearly airless place. A couple of billion years ago, though, it wasn’t much different from Earth.
One Man’s Fight Against Net Neutrality
I am neutral on most things that don’t involve food or sex or sexfood, which does not yet exist but which I already feel strongly about. But I am against Net neutrality.
Mercury messenger goes into orbit
It’s taken six years and six gravity assists from three different planets to get there, but at a little after 9 P.M. Eastern time on Thursday night, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft finally settled into orbit around the small, scorched planet Mercury.