While the majority of moviegoeers will be rooting for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as he goes head-to-head with an earthquake in this Friday’s “San Andreas,” there’s a small community whose disbelief will be hard to suspend: scientists. TheWrap spoke with Dr. Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center headquartered at USC, for his opinion on the big-screen effort from New Line and Warner Bros. — which invited several leading seismologists to see the film this week. In director Brad Peyton‘s destruction marathon, Johnson stars as a Los Angeles Fire and Rescue captain who sets out to...
- 5/28/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
What started as a fight between a prison guard and an inmate has escalated into a case of alleged attempted murder. Two prison guards and a former employee have been arrested by the FBI for conspiring to kill a black inmate in a Florida prison. Thomas Jordan Driver, 25; David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, are each charged with a felony count of conspiracy to commit murder. Driver and Moran work as corrections officers; Newcomb was a former employee. According to Wjxt, an FBI informant allegedly met the men after infiltrating a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. According to an investigator,...
- 4/3/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
What started as a fight between a prison guard and an inmate has escalated into a case of alleged attempted murder. Two prison guards and another former employee have been arrested by the FBI for conspiring to kill a black inmate in a Florida prison. Thomas Jordan Driver, 25; David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, are each charged with a felony count of conspiracy to commit murder. Driver and Moran work as corrections officers; Newcomb was a former employee. According to Wjxt, an FBI informant allegedly met the men after infiltrating a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. According to an investigator,...
- 4/3/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
After the disaster trifecta in Japan-quake, tsunami, nuclear crisis-Californians are asking if they might be next. The state's two reactors sit near seismic faults, tsunamis are a risk, and evacuation plans are iffy. Did someone say 'prepared'? In this week's Newsweek Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr look at just how unprepared California is.
The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan have filled airwaves, Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, and media reports with countless terrifying phrases, from "core meltdown" and "radiation cloud" to "9.0" and "10,000 dead." But for regions vulnerable to quakes and tsunamis-especially if, like Japan, they hit the trifecta of having nuclear plants in the crosshairs of those natural disasters-there have been no scarier words than these: Japan is the most earthquake- and tsunami-prepared country on the planet.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan
This, we now know, is what "well prepared" looks like: total...
The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan have filled airwaves, Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, and media reports with countless terrifying phrases, from "core meltdown" and "radiation cloud" to "9.0" and "10,000 dead." But for regions vulnerable to quakes and tsunamis-especially if, like Japan, they hit the trifecta of having nuclear plants in the crosshairs of those natural disasters-there have been no scarier words than these: Japan is the most earthquake- and tsunami-prepared country on the planet.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan
This, we now know, is what "well prepared" looks like: total...
- 3/21/2011
- by Sharon Begley & Andrew Murr
- The Daily Beast
Chicago – There is an art to music. There is an art to writing a story and an art to telling that story. There is art in a great drawing, a great painting and a great photograph. There is an art to communication. And it may only be a matter of time before museums expand to include a whole new category of modern art: the animated film from Disney and Pixar.
Rating: 4.5/5.0 For what the studio duo accomplished in 2008 with its “Wall-e,” which is known for its groundbreaking achievements in many of the above-listed categories, their newest film, “Up,” has also managed to ace much of the same. Though two very different films both strong for different reasons, the two establish the Disney and Pixar revolution of the animated genre.
A symphonic balance of captivating silence and clever dialogue, belly-laugh humor and tear-in-the-eye despair, fast-paced action scenes and scenes slowed for their precious detail,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0 For what the studio duo accomplished in 2008 with its “Wall-e,” which is known for its groundbreaking achievements in many of the above-listed categories, their newest film, “Up,” has also managed to ace much of the same. Though two very different films both strong for different reasons, the two establish the Disney and Pixar revolution of the animated genre.
A symphonic balance of captivating silence and clever dialogue, belly-laugh humor and tear-in-the-eye despair, fast-paced action scenes and scenes slowed for their precious detail,...
- 5/29/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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