Julius Finsberg, on his death bed, tells his godson Ben Flesh: It's incredible really. Amazing. Who could believe it? You weren't aborted, you didn't end up in a scum bag. You survived the infant mortality stuff. You made it past...
Deluge was the debut feature film by a 23 year-old with the enviable name of Felix E. Feist. Sounds like a Marx Brothers pseudonym, but it’s the real name of the son of an MGM sales manager, who had an almost-there career in movies until he switched to TV production in the 50s. Deluge was [...]
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a number of dangerous food recalls in the last few years. But there was a time when food didn’t just attack us after we ingested it. Some foods just cut out the middleman and created wide-scale disasters without contaminating a single colon. 1. The Boston Molasses Flood of [...]
Sitting down almost a week ago to watch 2012 starts a string of movie reviews I hope to start doing regarding popular culture (especially Hollywood) and their fascination with all things apocalyptic. I am trying to develop a rubric for...
Every few years, when the sun, the moon, and every other star in the universe align in such a way that the 3rd Sunday of the 6th month of the year is exactly the 21st day of said month, we have what we might call an astrological moment of astronomical proportions — my birthday is [...]
Entertainment Weekly recently published a column condemning “disaster porn” – the brand of epic destruction cinema that celebrates the survival instincts of a small group of humans…while literally everyone else in the world dies in vain. But I say let the faceless masses remain so, because Roland Emmerich’s disaster movies (Independence Day, The Day [...]
Yes, everyone's favorite lizard conversationalist, Darren Daulton, has a website to promote his metaphysics "starter kit" so everyone can be prepared for falling buildings, tidal waves, and John...
One of the great tragedies of our world is the fact dirigibles went out of fashion after the Hindenberg disaster and rise of the jet engine. There’s a great alternate history book called “The Two Georges”, written by Harry Turtledove and, of all people, Richard Dreyfus (he of the opus belonging to Mr. Holland and [...]
by Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam . He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I would like to talk to you today about...
In a disaster flick that opened this weekend, supposedly based on prophecies left behind by the Maya, 2012 is the year that California will crash into the Pacific, during a swirl of cataclysmic events that reshapes the world.
2012 (PG-13) (2009) Word on the street has it that it took about $250 million dollars for writer/director Roland Emmerich to “almost end” the world. I say “almost” because there were a few survivors and that just might qualify as a near miss as far as total annihilation goes. In about 158 minutes [...]
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In “2012,” there’s got to be a morning after, if for no other reason than formulaic disaster epics have to have some measure of hope at the end. And make no mistake: “2012″ is a formulaic disaster epic — to the 10th power. As in, with its characters dodging the non-stop dangers of massive earthquakes, [...]
Better batten down the hatches as it's going to be a rough weekend - and I don't mean just weather wise. Already outside the wind is blowing a gale and I can hear the rain splattering against my widow. I love this kind of weather, but only when I don't have to be out in it. Unfortunately my daughter and me got a soaking yesterday when we had a sudden heavy downpour as we walked home from school, but...
"2012" is based loosely on the belief that the world as we know it will end on Dec. 21 of that year. The date corresponds loosely to information gleaned from the writings of ancient Mayan culture, when the "Long-Count Calendar" of 5,126 days turns over and the result is -- what, exactly? | read more
Lenny Kravitz | Lenny Kravitz N*de Pic on his Twitter Lenny Kravitz is apparently giving him a run for his money as lamest user of Twitter, posting a naked photo of himself taken in a shower or urinal.Why would he do this? Now that his relationship with Cynthia Rodriguez appears to have cooled off, maybe this is his way of making a play for her. We have no clue what the motivation was, of course -