Summer movies: A 'Geekly' preview
Doc Jensen and Darren Franich anticipate season of superheroes, post-apocalyptic vistas, giant robots
Doc Jensen and Darren Franich anticipate season of superheroes, post-apocalyptic vistas, giant robots
This weekend’s 42, which tells the story of Jackie Robinson, is the latest in a long string of cinematic odes to America’s Pastime
Very different kinds of monsters star in this week’s new DVD releases.

Review by John Delia Tantalizingly brilliant Blancanieves, a sinister telling of the Grimm Brother’s classic tale of “Snow White” comes to theaters this weekend. The
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 11 (UPI) — DVD players, made almost obsolete by USB sticks and video streaming, may have a new life as inexpensive diagnostic instruments, Swedish scientists say.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator’s push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War
A research team in Sweden has converted a commercial DVD drive into a laser scanning microscope that can provide on-the-spot HIV testing and other analytics.
Several documentaries about the earth and its inhabitants are on DVD this week, just in time for Earth Day on April 22.
Many of us have accrued a massive collection of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, but not everyone has gone to the trouble of cataloging what they have. But keeping a precise inventory has its advantages, and that is where the free and very capable My Movies more than ably fills the need.
