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Thriller restores mystery to railroad travel

As you board your 7:33 NJ Transit -- computer bag painfully cutting into your shoulder, bitter coffee sloshing over your knuckles, eyes searching for anything but that Dreaded Middle Seat -- it is difficult to remember that train travel was once full of glamour and mystery. Especially as that era ended, in this country, sometime during Truman's second term. But "Transsiberian," a new thriller, brings back, if not the glamour, at least some of the mystery -- as two innocent American tourists (one read

253 DVD releases coming out 7/22/08

(Click the "DVD" icon to find previous weeks going back to January, 2007 - or find recent weeks in the "Related Threads" line at the bottom of the page) Hello. July continues to be an "easy" month with light schedules by the majors, and a lot of dross being snuck out by the fly-by-nighters. Once again, we bring you everything Amazon is offering for 7/22 (and the six days after, where noted) - this week that means 239 DVDs, a baker's dozen Blu-Ray releases, and ONE (count it - one) UMD for PSP. read

Cinema Sitges 2008 - Primeras Noticias

Ayer mismo se conocian las primeras noticias oficiales relacionadas con la presente edición de Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya, Cinema Sitges 2008. En esta 41 edición el festival estará dedicado a “2001: Una odisea en el espacio” y además se rendirá homenaje a los 75 años del mítico gorila gigante King Kong. Por si fuera poco los Monty Python serán invitados de honor en el Méliès d’Or. En lo referente a la programación asiática tenemos nombres como la trepidante “Crows-Episode 0 read

La 41ª edición del festival de Sitges llega cargada de Ciencia Ficción

La 41ª edición, que se celebrará del 2 al 12 de octubre, estará dedicada al 40 aniversario de 2001: A Space Odissey (2001: Una Odisea del Espacio), de Stanley Kubrick, y contará con la presencia entre otros de los actores Gary Lockwood y Keir Dullea, del supervisor de efectos especiales Douglas Trumbull y de Jan Harlan, productor ejecutivo y asistente de Kubrick. En cuanto a cine asiático se refiere, destacan filmes como Crows-Episode 0, donde Takashi Miike compone un brutal relato sobre la read

Sitges 2008. Primeras peliculas.

LA CIENCIA-FICCIÓN Y EL TERROR DE LO COTIDIANO, PROTAGONISTAS DE SITGES 08 La 41ª edición, que se celebrará del 2 al 12 de octubre, estará dedicada al 40 aniversario de 2001: A Space Odissey (2001: Una Odisea del Espacio), de Stanley Kubrick, y contará con la presencia entre otros de los actores Gary Lockwood y Keir Dullea, del supervisor de efectos especiales Douglas Trumbull y de Jan Harlan, productor ejecutivo y asistente de Kubrick. El Festival dedicará una retrospectiva reflexiva sobre e read

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Detenido el ex presidente serbobosnio Radovan Karadzic

El ex presidente serbobosnio era uno de los hombres más buscados en el mundo, acusado de genocidio por el cerco sobre Sarajevo que acabó con la vida de 12.000 personas y por la masacre de Srebrenica, la peor atrocidad desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Radovan Karadzic, de 63 años, fue capturado anoche por la policía serbia, según anunció el Gobierno serbio y fuentes judiciales serbias. Un comunicado emitido por el Ejecutivo del presidente Borís Tadic asegura que "Karadzic ha sido localizado y read

FACTBOX: U.N. court readies for Radovan Karadzic

(Reuters) - Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men for planning and ordering genocide in the 1992-95 Bosnia war, was arrested on Monday after 11 years on the run. read

Radovan Karadzic Captured

According to news reports the Bosnian Serb fugative Radovan Karadzic has been captured and will end up standing trial for war crimes. At one time I linked to the blog Finding Karadzic which followed the search. I checked it for news but it hasn't been updated since October. At any rate it's great news that he has been captured. Update : Finding Karadzic has been updated with news of his capture. read

What’s Going On - Evening Edition of News Round Up

Nothing is safe. Tomatoes. Lettuce. Now, Jalapeños have salmonella. What’s next - Air? Oh, right, most of the air that we breathe in our major cities is toxic. I forgot. Obama is kicking butt and talking the talk in Iraq. I hope that all of those folks that were whining about Obama’s commitment to withdrawal are now eating crow. Please notice the silence from the Right as they try to formulate a plan to stay in Iraq for several more months/years/decades. In NFL news, all-World defensive end Jas read

Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic arrested

BELGRADE - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested Monday evening in a sweep by Serbian security forces, the country’s president and the U.N. tribunal said. Karadzic is suspected of masterminding mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.” The killings include the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebreni read

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Golic Goes Missing From M&M This Morning (Updated)

Really odd happenings going on over the past few days. First it was Joe Morgan disappearing (below) and now Mike Golic is the topic of discussion. A few people emailed me this morning about Golic leaving the set of Mike and Mike this morning but I didn't really pay any mind. A few more people sent in questions this afternoon so I decided to check it out. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal if a host had to leave, but Golic left suddenly and Greenie refused to talk about why the rest of the show read

Donaghy’s New Allegations Have A Very Real Past

“Anybody who tells you that Michael Jordan was suspended for a year because of gambling is lying. That’s not what happened.” That was one of ESPN’s Mike Greenberg’s statements in response to Tim Donaghy’s lawyer’s charge that other referees, coaches, and players were involved in gambling in the NBA: According to documents filed by the lawyer, John Lauro, Donaghy provided law enforcement officials with information about N.B.A. matters outside of the government’s original investigation. That in read

An Unfortunate Mother’s Day Brunch

After alluding to it at the start of today’s show, Mike Greenberg related his Mother’s Day brunch experience: Greeny: I realized I’d mentioned this very early in the show and I never got a chance to tell you what happened at my Mother’s Day brunch yesterday.  Suffice it to say, you know how we all eventually become our parents?  I became my parents yesterday, most notably, I became my mother.  My mother is a wonderful woman, but if there was one thing when I was a kid that made me completely u read

In Memory of Frank Steponate

Mike Greenberg explains why he had an extended absence from the show over the last two weeks: For the last few days, I was off shooting Duel, the game show, as you know and as we talked about a little bit, but prior to that, I was off for a couple of days - it actually happened on the last day I was here.  I know you [Golic] mentioned there was a death in my family: it was my father-in-law who passed away, Stacy’s dad, in Chicago, and certainly, to most of the people who knew him, I would not read

The Brett Favre Show

Needless to say, with future NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre retiring, the show was dominated by Favre talk, so much so that this will be today’s only post.  Mike Greenberg shared several thoughts on the all-time passing leader. How we’ve lived Brett Favre’s life along with him:  The thing that makes Favre larger than life is how much we’ve lived through with him. … Think about how much of his life you have lived with Brett Favre: the night that he played on that Monday Night game the day after read