He made perhaps the most dramatic shot in the history of NCAA basketball tournament. He's the only player to start in four consecutive Final Fours, and was instrumental in Duke winning two national championships. He had looks, smarts and games. So why has Christian Laettner been disliked so intensely by so many for so long? Maybe it was the he stomped on the chest of a downed p...
The IMAX "Cosmic Voyage" film was made as a public service with sponsorship by the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. On DVD, borrowed from my local public library, it plays at just over 30 minutes with Morgan Freeman supplying a pleasing narrative. As one would expect from an IMAX film, the image quality is superb and the Dolby 5.1 sound track is very well done. Simulated cosmic explosions shake your walls! That is, if you have a good powered subwoofer in your system.
The film takes a very useful approach to examining the size of the universe, from tiny sub-atomic particles to the vastness of the whole universe. (Fortunately, when God created the Universe he had dispatched a few angels with video cameras at different vantage points so we get to see actual footage from several billion years ago.) The film starts in Venice, where the discovery of the telescope originated, and uses a one-meter hoop as a reference point, then gradually goes larger by powers of 10, e.g. 10 meters, 100, 1000, etc until we can see the whole universe. Then it takes the opposite journey, going smaller by powers of 10 until be see inside sub-atomic particles.
The story is well-woven with beautiful effects created especially for this film. It is entertaining and educational at the same time. All of "oldsters" can enjoy it for the scientific history we are already familiar with, and all the "youngsters" can enjoy it for the educational supplement it provides. Overall a masterful film.
Any numerical "rating" of "Cosmic Voyage" is meaningless. If one is looking for a superb film about our universe and modern theories of its formation, this one is hard to beat. Kudos to IMAX and to the Air and Space Museum.
肉眼只能看见穹苍一角。凝视夜空,但见繁星点点,偶尔一颗流星划破夜空,但你可曾看见恒星死亡前的最后爆发?瞪视双手,你或会看见点点尘垢,但你又可曾看见组成皮肤的原子在颤动?因为眼不能见,我们只能纵驰想像,去探索这个深邃广阔的宇宙。
本片获第六十九届奥斯卡金像奖最佳纪录短片提名.
A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very old mother and raises her young brother. In an environment where commitments and social problems often stand in the way between people and their dreams.
Six dads gather in rural Oklahoma for a weekend fishing trip. As the men cast their rods into the river, share their catch over dinner, and swap stories beside the bonfire, we learn what has brought them to this scenic idyll: the love for their trans and LGBTQ children, their fears for their children's safety, and the urgency to fight for the ground on which they all stand. The Dads is a quiet meditation on fatherhood, brotherhood and manhood amid the changing American landscape.
故事发生在1958年的西德,乔汉(亚历山大·斐林 Alexander Fehling 饰)是一名法院公诉人,专门负责处理违反交通安全法案的诉讼案件。一天,在法院里,他偶遇了一位名叫托马斯(安德烈·席曼斯基 André Szymanski 饰)的记者正在大声的控诉一位中学教师,他指认对方在二战期间是奥斯维辛集中营的监视人,如今却逃脱了法律制裁。
这一事件的发生引发了乔汉深深的思考,他开始关注起周围的人对于德国曾经的暴行的认知和态度,结果令他震惊。于是,乔汉决定开始着手寻找奥斯维辛集中营的幸存者,并且让他们指认现在仍旧逍遥法外的战犯。随着调查的深入,乔汉震惊的发现,这整件事情牵连的人数之多,就连自己也难逃其咎。
在上一集中大显神威的特工头子奥古斯塔斯(塞缪尔•杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)这次遇到了大麻烦,他和武器专家托尼在国家安全局的地下指挥中心竟遭到杀手追杀。奥古斯塔斯怀疑这些杀手是被政府内部激进分子指派,蓄意颠覆国家政权,于是他希望物色一名合适的特工戳穿害群之马的险恶阴谋。最后,奥古斯塔斯找到了最佳人选前特种兵戴瑞斯(艾斯•库珀 Ice Cube 饰),他因殴打上级军官现在正被军警监禁。奥古斯塔斯想方设法帮助戴瑞斯越狱成功,并说服他接受了这一国家重任。于是,戴瑞斯开始行动了!
A video blogger records his new relationship - but a series of disturbing murders are also captured on his camera, and the true identity of the killer is hidden - for now.