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Experts Say Oil Wars Will Hit in 2-5 Years [Disaster]
Oil prices are set to double between 2010 and 2015, and the Guardian's Michael Meacher says this might spark the global oil wars that scifi writers and futurists have been predicting for decades. He's got hard statistics to back up his claims, and some interesting ideas for solutions. [UK Guardian] 11:28 AM on Fri Aug 22 2008 By Annalee Newitz 1,024 views

Movie Review | Dare Not Walk Alone: A Muddled Walk Through a Segregationist History
In the civil rights documentary “Dare Not Walk Alone,” the writer and director Jeremy Dean makes a valiant attempt to juxtapose past and present, but his goal is consistently undermined by an execution so muddled it’s almost unwatchable. Even so, the film deserves to be seen, if only for its wealth of rare historical footage and powerful eyewitness testimony. Moving between the 1963-64 segregation protests in St. Augustine, Fla., and the pitiful living conditions endured by many of the city’s bl

Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Larisa Shepitko
Two harsh but hauntingly beautiful fables -- “Wings,” released in 1966, and “The Ascent,” from 1977 -- are the best-known films of the director Larisa Shepitko.

‘Sex and the City’ Leads Weekend Box Office
The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.

Charles H. Joffe, Movie Producer, Is Dead at 78
Mr. Joffe was a co-producer of Woody Allen’s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the careers of a host of high-profile comedians.

Howard Minsky, Hollywood Producer, Is Dead at 94
Mr. Minsky was a Hollywood talent agent and the producer of the movie “Love Story.”

Howard Minsky, Hollywood Producer, Is Dead at 94
Mr. Minsky was a Hollywood talent agent and the producer of the movie “Love Story.”

Zombies Invade, and the Only Safe Place is a Reality TV House [Dead Set]
Though some might say that zombies already inhabit reality TV shows like Britain's smash hit Big Brother, a new show called Dead Set is taking that claim to the next level. Produced by the same company that makes Big Brother, the (fictional, scripted) show takes place in the Big Brother house as massive zombie attacks take place outside. At first, the inhabitants of the surveillance game show house don't realize anything is going on. But then things get bloody. Written by UK Guardian columnist and media cr

Stargate Universe Gets The Green Light [Stargate Universe]
While I'm still wearing bulky gear all week in mourning for the cancellation of Stargate Atlantis, for every Wraith cloud there is a silver lining. A new spin-off show, Stargate Universe, has gotten the greenlight from the Sci Fi Channel. So we can expect a big 2-hour premiere in 2009, followed by a regular series. Click through for more information about Stargate Universe and the crew of the Destiny. Yes, the ship is called Destiny, what did you expect? It's Stargate — cheese is its bread and butter. Th

Dancing is hotter than ever ... on TV
Take your pick — there’s no shortage of dance on TV. Inspired viewers maybe even try out a move or two on the living room floor, or sign up for classes, secretly hoping that they, too, could hack it as a professional.Dancing days are here again, and the ratings are soaring. Last week, for example, Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” lured 7.9 million viewers Wednesday night and 8.4 million viewers Thursday night, competing with opening night ceremonies for the Olympics on NBC, according to Nielsen

Coastal split widens in SAG contract stalemate
The New York regional board of the Screen Actors Guild demanded on Sunday that the Hollywood union take meaningful steps toward negotiating a new contract by August 25 or bring in a federal mediator.Sam Freed, a member of the negotiating committee who is also president of the New York board and the union's second national vice president, said that the longer the union waits to make a deal, the more it hurts its members."All of us in New York, Hollywood and across the country should be concerned about how th

Random Notes: Bob Dylan, Metallica, Billy Joel and Amy Winehouse: Radiohead, Marilyn Manson, Eric Clapton and the Week in Rock
Radiohead, Marilyn Manson, Eric Clapton and the Week in Rock

Cable TV Preview
"I wanted to show what it was like to have the world change around you," says Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. "You watch life pass, and you're the same person inside." For the second season of Weiner's acclaimed AMC show (July 27th, 10 p.m.), set at a New York advertising agency, the action leaps forward from 1960 to 1962, when Madison Avenue — and the rest of the country — would become riveted to the nuclear brinkmanship of the Cuban missile crisis. But the personal dilemmas that gripped Don Dr

How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party
A president driven by ideology. A Congress rife with corruption. A political party hellbent on a "permanent majority." A leading scholar examines the radicals who hijacked the GOP — and wrecked the longest conservative ascendancy in American history • Video: Five Ways Bush Sunk the GOP The failure of the administration of George W. Bush — and the accompanying crisis of the Republican Party — has caused a political meltdown of historic proportions. In the aftermath of the terrorist a

Why Have Superheroes Taken Over Our Movie Theaters? [Supercinema]
Why have our summer cinema screens been ruled by the superhero? Are The Dark Knight and Iron Man really two of the most wonderful movies ever made, or is there something else going on that makes people even consider a movie like Hancock acceptable entertainment? The University of Wisconsin's Professor of Film Studies, David Bordwell, has some thoughts on the subject that he'd like to share. One of the first things that Bordwell wants to establish is that, no, Iron Man and The Dark Knight weren't a

Humans Abandon Earth, Bring Sexual Harrassment With Them [Venus Rises]
Two webseries premiered this past week, and NBC's superslick Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson, grabbed all the attention. But the rough-and-ready Venus Rises also launched its first episode, about ore miners in deep space. In Venus Rises, humans have abandoned the Earth, and there's a class division between the Martian overlords and the Venusian workers. Click through to find out more. The first episode, "Ikarus part 1," is actually a prequel to the main series. The series is somewhat confusingly m

Kate Moss Says She Was Never Anorexic
She says when she was "doing shows and flying economy ... nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose." You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it. You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating." I remember standing up in the bath one day, a

When Stars Attack: Britney Spears Rains Blows
The love/hate relationship celebrities have with the paparazzi, their adoring fans and the public in general is no more apparent than when they pick up their fists and take a swing at somebody. And because they're famous, 9 times out of 10, there's someone standing there with a camera, memorializing that infamous moment in time. That's probably because most of the time, the person getting attacked is the one carrying the camera. Comes with the territory. Here's a collection of some of our featherweig

Fashion Review: 10 Years Later, Carrie Coordinated
Fashion has been a regular character defining trait throughout the “Sex and the City” series, and in the film version, the fashion is jaw-droppingly fantastic.