I'm on the fence with "Lost in Translation." On the one hand, it does a pretty good job of just being an episode ofStar Trek, with a decent sci-fi mystery premise that's processed through a solid character core. On the other hand, the execution feels off. It seems sluggish when i...
The film has its problems, particularly toward the end, but its ambition and commitment to recreating 19th-century Manhattan, down to its last muddy detail, mark it as one of the last of the old-style epics, before green screens and CGI made depictions of the past much less tactile and,...
Scooby-Doo inspired decades of franchise spin-offs and continuations — from two live-action movies to numerous comic books, snack food tie-ins, animated show reboots, and animated movies, the most recent being this year's CGI-animated Scoob! 38 of 149 VH1 Zavion "Chi Chi De DeVayne" ...
Ostensibly a translation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel of the same name, it was conceived by Smith for ‘some English friends who did not read the French’, leading her to ‘translate the whole; or’ – as she pointedly notes –‘rather to write it anew in English.’[1] Her wording...
A pronounced decline in the biodiversity of many groups of the Ponto-Caspian invertebrates, observed over the past century, has forced taxonomists to alert to a large-scale crisis of this unique biota both in the Caspian Sea and in the Azov–Black Sea Basin [3,6]. The striking absence ...