The groom’s older brother (Jack Reynor) is a spoiled jerk and financial disaster; his preggers wife (Dakota Fanning) is a social climber who puts up with her husband’s philandering because, well, he’s rich. The maid of honor (Meghann Fahy) is a party girl; the best man (Ishaan ...
Refusing to abandon fellow climber Doug Hansen, Rob Hall (left) died not far from the summit. Jason Clarke (right) portrays Rob Hall in theEverestmovie. Have there been worse Everest disasters in the years since 1996? Yes.When fact-checkingEverest, we learned that two more recent disasters ...
Being a non-technical, (gear-free), mtn climber myself, I found this DVD to be a rush of course. The scenery was beyond spectacular and nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat moments aplenty. This is a real-life adventure retold visually and via commentary soundbites. It boils down to explorin...
The Gist:The guy was an expert rock climber, but even experts can slip and fall and die, right? Right. But the probability of it seems pretty low. So Leo Vardakis’ (Richard Madden) untimely demise has a stink of suspicion to it, and the perfect guy to take a big whiff of the si...
A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a huge river. ...
The movie begins like a Redbull Commercial in a Mission-Impossible-II-cliff-climber opening setting. The Netflix logline reads "After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator." The movie ...
he tells me as we settle into a wood-paneled booth at keens. he deems his children his sole genuine accomplishment, which perhaps explains why caring for them seems to have replaced all previous hobbies. when charton met culkin, he was an avid indoor rock climber. he has since swapped ...
What free solo climber died? Brad Gobright, an acclaimed American free solo climber, has died after falling nearly 1,000 feet while rappelling a well-known route in Mexico with a rope, the authorities said. Who is the best free soloist?
Clint Eastwood did all of his own stunts, including the scene where he cuts his safety line over a drop of at least 1,000 feet. The only stunt he did not perform was a 2,500-foot drop, for which a dummy was used. One climber, David Knowles, was killed by a boulder on the secon...
An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber. The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the ...