Tag: film

  • Gasland Part II Movie Premier at Tribeca Reviewed

    Gasland Part II Movie Premier at Tribeca Reviewed

    Gasland Part II Documentary Premier The audience rose for a standing ovation after the sold-out Gasland Part II documentary. It was a world premier of the new movie on fracking held at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 21. This movie shows film and entertainment at its best, informing and enlightening the audience on an important, global political issue…

  • Cloning Dinosaurs and Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park 20 years after director Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park broke all kinds of records, this April the new movie version is out in 3D and doing well. Dinosaurs have qualities irresistable to the human imagination; power, speed, and dominance – all perfect for the science fiction film genre. Dinosaurs lived 230 million years ago, when all earth’s continents were still connected. The dinosaur…

  • Force of Nature: Scientist Activist David Suzuki

    Force of Nature: Scientist Activist David Suzuki

    Forces of Nature Forces of Nature – what are they? Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanoes come to mind. In the documentary film genre, the new Force of Nature, suggests that humans have become a force of nature. In this documentary, renowned Canadian geneticist David Suzuki gives an elder’s view on science, the environmental crisis, and how all…

  • Where Will Women Be on Oscar Night 2012?

    I’ll be writing on Oscar night 2012, where will you be? It may seem terribly boring, but the fact is I gave up my television about 3 years ago, and so it goes. Last year I went to a showing of the Oscar awards downtown, and while it was fun, coming home by subway that…

  • X-Men Don’t Thank Just Dad for the Mutations

    Where do those mutants come from anyway? I’ve recently seen X-Men First Class, and what a trip of a movie. When wondering about who to credit for super-genes and super-powers, we would normally turn to good old Dad. It was long thought that mutations were more likely to be inherited from men. Maybe we would…