April 13, 2013
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Times critics on “To the Wonder,†“42†and “It’s a Disaster.â€
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.
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.