Movies, Climate Change Not Necessarily The Same Script south kingstown — the 1973 film soylent green depicted an overheated and overpopulated planet where the only food was wafers derived from dead humans. in the 1995 waterworld, people struggled to survive on a planet that was drowned by melting ice caps. www.projo.com
The End Is Here: Apocalyptic Movies - Azcentral.com flooded cities. a plague of blindness. humanity huddled in bunkers. it's just another night at the movies. the katrina documentary "trouble the water," the viral-outbreak drama "blindness" (opening friday) and the subterranean fantasy "city of ember ... www.azcentral.com
Fable Feels ‘blind’ To Its Own Illogic - Popmatters.com before star wars , serious science fiction survived on the allegorical. take a typical situation, instill it with some sort of out of this world premise, and watch as humanity races toward its own prophetic self-destruction. children of men did it ... www.popmatters.com
Palin: Obama Pals With Terrorists republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin on saturday accused democrat barack obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of an association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray obama as unacceptable to american voters. www.washingtontimes.com
The End Is Here: 9-11 Attacks And The New Millennium Revive ... - Popmatters.com the katrina documentary “trouble the water,” the viral-outbreak drama “blindness” (opening friday) and the subterranean fantasy “city of ember” (oct. 10) are the latest in a cresting wave of mass-disaster flicks. apocalyptic visions on ... www.popmatters.com
Uri Explores Hollywood’s Scare Tactics a university of rhode island climate scientist and a film professor will examine the science and the art of hollywood movies that feature nightmare narratives as part of uri’s annual fall honors colloquium. www.thewesterlysun.com
Gire On Three Decades Spent At The Movies - Arlington Heights Daily Herald i miss those late-night phone calls from upset, often inebriated daily herald readers who, after seeing a movie, would call up their favorite local film critic and leave their own colorful comments on his voice mail. call me a technological masochist ... www.dailyherald.com
September 21 - September 28 (79) - Dakota Voice ? january 16 - january 23 (1) the first chief justice of the u.s. supreme court was the president of the american bible society. who was he? john jay, who died may 17, 1829. a member of the continental congress, even serving as its president, john ... www.dakotavoice.com
Video Pick: John Hodgman Discusses Hobo Culture, soylent Green - Wired john hodgman is a know-it-all. of course hodgman, whose resume includes the daily show , pc impersonator in apple commercials and wired magazine coverboy , may be falsifying his extensive knowledge of hobo etiquette and hook-handed american leaders ... blog.wired.com
Consumer Engine Runs On Fumes - Chicago Sun-times the sooner we face it, the better. we're headed into a post-consumer economy. it sounds a little like something out of "soylent green," but there's no need for fear. for years, consumer spending beyond reason and prudence has sustained the u.s ... www.suntimes.com
Captchas For Social Good? - Internetnews.com researchers at the university of california at san diego have a plan to meld the brains of internet users into a vast human grid that would make use of the seconds wasted on solving captchas ( define ) to enact social change. likely familiar to any ... www.internetnews.com
Tons Of Movies To See This Weekend - New York Daily News kick things off friday with that spectacular opening shot from orson welles ' classic "touch of evil," which is playing as part of lincoln center 's charlton heston celebration ( www.filmlinc.org ). and if heston happens to be your icon of choice ... www.nydailynews.com