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Don’t be fooled: despite the fact that producer Eli Roth has stacked his name above the title on posters and advertisements, The Last Exorcism has absolutely nothing in common with Roth’s adolescent torture-porn Hostel franchise. And despite a titular invocation of the original The Exorcist (with an implied promise to put a tourniquet on any more sequels), Daniel Stamm’s film bears little resemblance to William Friedkin’s moody, head-spinning freak-out. Instead it’s something more curious, and quite welcome: a deft, intelligent, pseudo-documentary thriller disguised as a horror movie. Until it concedes to standard slash-and-rush tactics in the final act, The Last Exorcism manages to be scary without resorting to cheap special effects or gore. It’s not as good as it could have been, but it’s so much better than expected.
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REVIEW: Last Exorcism Starts Strong But Can’t Close the Pseudo-Doc Deal
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American remakes of foreign films have become so commonplace that even a statute of limitations barely exists anymore; Le Dîner de Cons — the French film that Dinner for Schmucks was based on — came out in 1998. So by those standards, Zhang Yimou’s Chinese conversion of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple — A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop — feels positively warranted. After all, it has been 26 years since the original came out.
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Chinese Remake of Blood Simple Won’t Be That Simple
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X-Tracer and ZAP compete for the X Prize. Photos courtesy of Progressive Automotive X Prize After a series of eliminations at Michigan International Speedway over the past several weeks, the original 136 vehicles that qualified to enter the Automotive X Prize were narrowed down to nine final survivors. In this ‘revolution through competition,’ the vehicles aimed for the best super-fuel efficiency — 100 mpg o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Automotive X Prize Finalists Race to Top 100 MPGe
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Mexican police arrest man hiding 18 monkeys under clothes at airport By the CNN Wire Staff July 20, 2010 4:17 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Mexican authorities searching a man with a bulge under his shirt at the airport in the nation's capital found 18 monkeys hidden beneath his clothes, police said. Investigators grew suspicious after Roberto Sol Cabrera Zavaleta, 38, became “markedly nervous” when asked what he was transporting, Mexico's Public Safety Department said. Two of the tiny titi monkeys he was carrying in a belt were dead, the department said in a statement, and 16 of them survived the journey from Lima, Peru. Cabrera has been detained as authorities continue their investigation, the statement said. In an interview with authorities released by police, Cabrera said he first carried the monkeys in his suitcase, but then hid the animals in his clothes so they would not be harmed by X-ray machines at the airport. He described the animals as “pets” and told authorities he had purchased them for $30. Titi monkeys are protected endangered species requiring a permit for possession, police said. Images released by police show the tiny creatures, many of which are tied up in pouches, squirming in a cardboard box. EthicalVegan's Note: Visit this better article, especially to see the heartrending video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10692772 [Thanks, Stoneyroad!] added by: EthicalVegan
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Is a picture worth more or less than a thousand words if it's digitally altered? John Aravosis of AMERICAblog made an interesting find Monday night: A high-resolution image on BP's website of the troubled company's Houston-based Deepwater Horizon response command center had been altered. The altered image was later removed by BP and replaced with what they say is the original (the altered image is above and the original is below). You'll notice that three underwater images were inserted onto screens to the right on a wall of video feeds in the altered image, where blank images exist on the screens in the original. ** The Main image is the altered image ** added by: KSirys
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Not a sequel and not quite a reboot, Predators sits in that no-man’s land of derivation, where a franchise is plundered mainly for its conceptual cachet, and continuity and reinvention are cast aside as hopelessly old-fashioned. Conceiving of their audience as a chronic video-game player, the filmmakers seem to have figured that fans want only minor variations on the same experience, over and over again. Not that such a calculation is below a franchise born as a goof (the original screenwriters were inspired by a joke that followed the release of Rocky IV : If that franchise were to continue, he’d have to fight an alien) and forced into the indignity of the Predator vs. Alien films. Fans of the original, which had Arnold Schwarzenegger wasting a killer extraterrestrial in Guatemala, have likely grown resigned to disappointment with its descendents; Predators will not change that entirely, but it may summon enough fond memories to sneak by.
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REVIEW: Ask Not What Predators Does For Adrien Brody, Ask What Adrien Brody Does For Predators
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BP’s new cover up is literally covering up the beaches. I am getting reports from Grand Isle, Louisiana, from C.S. Muncy, a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, that BP is now trucking in sand to cover up the Gulf beaches instead of cleaning up the oil that spreading on our shores. When asked if it was true that BP has been covering some of the oil on the beach with sand: “Yeah. Yeah, this is interesting…We went down onto the beaches, and we started inspecting them. There were tar balls, tar residue, and there was some oil on the beach. Apparently, the day before there was a lot of tar balls, and BP was working in the area pretty heavily, and we started noticing there was a different consistency in the sand. Closer to shore, there was this grainy, very rough shell-filled sand, and then you could see almost like a border where it just spilled over onto the beach sand, which is a very fine-grained sand. And it looked as if it was dumped. I mean, you could dig a few inches down, and you could see that it was a different type of sand beneath that, you know, without all the shell and grit, and what not. It looked very much like that. Our first assumption was, yeah, that they were dumping sand to cover up the tar balls.” Read the rest on the original post. added by: CLGreen
Add Elijah Wood to the list of film actors who are crossing over to television this year. The Lord of the Rings alum will star in FX’ s adaptation of the Australian series Wilfred . Jason Gann, who co-created and starred in the original project, will reprise his role as the title character for the U.S. iteration. The pilot script, from David Zuckerman ( Family Guy , American Dad ) centers on a guy (Wood) and a mixed-breed dog Wilfred (Gann) “who is part Labrador retriever and part Russell Crowe on a bender.” This marks Wood’s first starring role in a television series. [ EW ]
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