Don’t believe the hype. “Visionary” director Zack Snyder, as the marketing would have it, has filmed Alan Moore’s “unfilmable” graphic novel by treating the comic book panels as his storyboard and his Bible.
Review: ‘Watchmen’ lacks imagination
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Collapsed building traps 2 in Germany
Rescuers in Germany reduced the number of people they were searching for in a building collapse from nine to two, a fire department spokesman said late Tuesday. Seven people who earlier had been reported missing contacted authorities to say they were safe, the spokesman explained. The two remaining victims are men missing from a residential building heavily damaged when another building collapsed, said the spokesman.
Asteroid passes close to Earth
You had a close encounter with a 40-yard-wide asteroid this week, but the astronomer who first spotted the large rock said it’s nothing to worry about. Asteroid 2009 DD45 on Monday passed within 38,000 miles of Earth, less than twice the height of the geostationary satellites we depend on for communications, according to Robert McNaught of the Australian National University. McNaught, who watches for asteroids with his telescope 250 miles northwest of Sydney, Australia, discovered the approaching rock last week
Analysis: Obama takes ‘morning in America’ mantle
President Barack Obama addressed Congress shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, but a casual viewer might have believed it was actually morning in America.
Bailed-out bank enjoys concerts, dinners, parties
A bank that received $1.6 billion dollars of the government’s bailout money sponsored what reports are calling a lavish series of events in Los Angeles, California, last weekend. Northern Trust, based in Chicago, Illinois, spent an undisclosed amount of money sponsoring a Professional Golf Association tournament and associated client events, including concerts, dinners and parties, according to celebrity Web site TMZ.com. The bank spent millions of dollars on the event, which included — on top of the sponsorship costs of the Northern Trust Open tournament — concerts by Sheryl Crow and Earth Wind & Fire, a private party at music venue House of Blues and gift bags from Tiffany & Co., the Web site said
NASA satellite crashes minutes after launch
A NASA satellite crashed back to Earth about three minutes after launch early Tuesday, officials said.
NASA greenhouse gas satellite fails
NASA said early Tuesday that it failed to launch a satellite which would have monitored greenhouse gases to study how they affect the Earth’s climate. The rocket carrying the satellite launched at 1:55 a.m
Mike Myers, Paris Hilton big ‘winners’ at Razzies
It was a night for neon pink bowties and words like "disaster" and "monstrosity." It was not the night, however, to be Paris Hilton, Mike Myers or Uwe Boll.
Green burials: A dying wish to be ‘home for fish’
Carole Dunham, 69, loved the ocean. Last July, she was diagnosed with cancer and had only a few months to live
‘I don’t know what I saw,’ videographer says of fireball
Just like some U.S. officials looking into the mystery, the man who captured video of an apparent fireball plunging from the sky over Texas on Sunday is perplexed about what it was.