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  • Venus Jupiter and Mercury will dance in spring twilight

    Three planets - Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will present a spectacular sky show during the last week of May. So, look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026. "Here's a beautiful chance to see three planets all together," said Alan ...

  • Bieber booed by fans at Billboard Music Awards

    Pop star Justin Bieber was reportedly booed by his fans at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards when he went on the stage to receive an award and gave a speech. Protesting against the booing, the singer said that he is an artist who should be taken seriously, reports thesun.co.uk. The 19-year-old competed with singers Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars to grab the Milestone Award, which recognises musical ...

  • Edgy indie films among summer crop

    It is David vs. Goliath, brains vs. brawn, art vs. commerce. I am talking about alternate movie programming vs. Hollywood's summer blockbusters. It looks bleak for David, but now is not the time to surrender. Okay, okay, I realize that cinephiles despair seeing the boxoffice results already posted this month, as well as trailers for the 2013 summer fare. It all seems so overwhelming. Iron ...

  • Abrams a fan of text-based games

    The visual effects in Star Trek Into Darkness leave very little to the imagination. And that's the whole point of special effects, right? Through the use of elaborate sets, stunts and computer-generated imagery, director J. J. Abrams transports us from the surface of alien worlds to the inky void of space to the bridge of the USS Enterprise herself. The same can be said for video games. As ...

  • Antarctica exhibition shows off architects ice work

    Antarctica , shaped like caterpillars or icebergs, on stilts or stubby legs, will look like science-fiction illustrations - the storms, blizzards, extremes of temperature, darkness and howling winds they have been designed to withstand are so extreme that conditions have been likened to those on ...


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Movie Review

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a dark, ugly fantasy movie that takes its name from the role-playing game that first gained popularity among unpopular teenage boys two decades ago. The game really has little or nothing to do with the movie itself, although there are dungeons and dragons to be found, the former created by large interiors shot in various buildings in the Czech Republic and the lat ... ...

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  • Tsar to Lenin to be shown at UK’s National Media Museum and at Cornerhouse cinema

    is to be screened by two major independent cinemas in the UK, the Cornerhouse in Manchester May 27, and the National Media Museum in Bradford, June 1. First released in ...

  • Cinema imagination and object perception questioned in Cairo art display

    Cairo's Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) is collaborating with the UK's Tate Modern in a collective video art exhibition entitled 'Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear', which raises questions about the nature of cinema and moving images, and the role played by the audiences' imaginations and perceptions in constructing narratives.The exhibition features ...

  • Netflix and the rise of binge TV watching

    Netflix has been giving viewers the opportunity to watch entire new seasons of TV shows in one sitting and -- for better or for worse -- many have been doing just that. When Netflix premiered its first original ...

  • Walters daughter arrested for DUI

    Journalist Barbara Walters arrives for the Time 100 gala celebrating the magazine's naming of the 100 most influential people in the world for the past year, in New York, April 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Lucas ...

  • Jay-Z denies pregnancy rumours

    Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce watch the New Jersey Nets play the Phoenix Suns in the second quarter of their NBA basketball game in Newark, New Jersey, February 28, 2011. REUTERS/Ray ...

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