The UK's Royal Society announces its shortlist for the best science books of 2009, but it misses out on some great reads Every year the Royal Society Prize for Science Books celebrates the best in popular science writing. The six shortlisted books announced this week represent a diverse array of subjects and styles, ranging from [...]
Joss Whedon is very candid regarding the high expectations for The Avengers. The Sydney Morning Herald recently spoke with The Avengers's director Joss Whedon and discussed working on the project, and everything else that goes along with creating a film that combines so many beloved Marvel characters. "Right now I'm working on a movie that's [...]
Forget "Avatar" and "Step Up 3D": When filmmakers finally master 3-D, it will mark the start of a new art form Is digital 3-D the future of cinema or an annoying, overhyped fad? The movie industry is understandably torn. On one hand, money talks, and some of the biggest hits of the last six months [...]
Music Box Films Vincent Cassel as Jacques Mesrine in “Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1.” Vincent Cassel, the cocky, snake-eyed French actor with a prizefighter’s mug is so charismatic in “Mesrine,” a four-hour biography of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, that you can’t take your eyes off him. Mr. Cassel’s monumental performance fuses the cobralike menace [...]
Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. ★ ‘Agora’ (No rating, 2:06) The culture wars in Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century A.D. are imagined by the director Alejandro Amenábar and a cast led by Rachel Weisz, [...]
Ben Glass/Warner Brothers Pictures Callan McAuliffe and Madeline Carroll in Rob Reiner’s “Flipped,” adapted from a novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. Suburban America in the late 1950s and early ’60s as depicted in “Flipped,” Rob Reiner’s sentimental ode to puppy love in that innocent era, might as well be another world, for all its resemblance [...]
Antoine Antoniol/Bloomberg News, left; Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, left, is portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg, right, in “The Social Network.” Mr. Zuckerberg says “the movie is fiction.” LOS ANGELES — At the New York Film Festival next month, Hollywood will unleash “The Social Network,” a biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and [...]
Songs by rock luminaries like Metallica, Rush, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, U2 and Tom Petty are all being heavily considered to wake up the crew of the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery when it goes on an 11-day journey in November. What's all this wackiness about? Well, the songs are part of [...]
Iron Maiden have scored a number one album in twenty one countries. The British heavy metal pioneers' 'The Final Frontier' album has dominated charts across Europe, Japan and South America since its release on August 16. However, despite the incredible reception from fans and reviewers alike, the band remain close to their humble roots, and [...]
Weezer have become a "totally kick a*s live band". The US rock group claim to have struck a new raw and aggressive sound for their forthcoming album 'Hurley' which, according to singer Rivers Cuomo, has helped bring a lot of new energy to the group. 'Buddy Holly' rocker Rivers said: "Weezer's become a totally kick-ass [...]
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