Chris Knight

Chief Film Critic, National Post

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Beyond the Hills review: Exorcism has never looked so calm

arts.nationalpost.com — When Hollywood takes on exorcism, it generally includes improbable amounts of bodily fluids, spectral images in mirrors, and at least one shot of someone having their spine cracked by demonic forces. And before you ask "Who else takes on exorcism?"
Today in 1935, Reds & Phillies played baseball's first night game, thus spawning the retronym "day game." Thanks, @WorldHistory101
Someone needs to set this to music - like David Bowie's Life on Mars? bit.ly/13IGmqV

Mars Science Laboratory: Time Lapse - Sol 0 - Sol 281

youtube.com — This is a time lapse video created from the Raw Images available at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ . Created from using only Full Data Product from the Front Left Hazcam. This is my first attempt at this process and hope to update and refine these videos as more data becomes available. Check back for more!
RT @Fox_Theatre: Oscar nominated for best foreign film, #NO. See it tonight at 9:30PM. ow.ly/ldZlX

NO | Film Trailer | Participant Media

youtube.com — Coming Soon to Theaters Change the World, Speak Up: http://bit.ly/R841A3 When Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, facing international pressure, calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988, opposition leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign.
We have lift (off) and separation! Story of Playtex's Apollo spacesuits coming to the big screen. dlvr.it/3QK1bP

Bra Makers' Moon Spacesuit History Will Star in Warner Bros. Movie

space.com — International Latex Corporation (ILC) seamstresses are seen in 1967 sewing parts for the Apollo spacesuits worn on the moon. CREDIT: MIT Press From the studio that put Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit may now come a movie about the real-life seamstresses who traded sewing brassieres for stitching Neil Armstrong's lunar wardrobe.
RT @newscientist: Love science? Hate typos? Get typing. Just one week left to apply for a paid subediting internship at New Scientist http:…

Want an internship at New Scientist?

newscientist.com — Can you pick out the flaws in a muddled argument? Do you have a knack for giving pedestrian prose the sparkle that will turn it into a compelling read? If so, you may be the talented person New Scientist is looking for to take up a paid six-month traineeship with the magazine's subediting team at our central London office.
Alfred Molina turns 60 today. He's done some great stuff, but I'll always remember his "Throw me the idol." bit.ly/18bRCDi

Throw me the idle; I throw you the vip

youtube.com — Quick cut scene from Indiana Jones!
RT @pleasuremotors: Fast and FurioSix: Like watching a sugar-addled child smash his Hot Wheels around, in a good way: arts.nationalpost.com/2013/05/23/fil…

Fast & Furious 6, reviewed: Not much plot in Vin Diesel, Paul Walker film

arts.nationalpost.com — The morality, and hence audience sympathy, of the American outlaw depends on his inviolable, but intensely personal, code; he may live outside society's laws, but only because they are less pure, less true, than his own. Omar robs drug dealers; The Man With No Name kills the sadistic; Domenic Toretto (Vin Diesel) protects his family.
@RichardCrouse And I thought the overline said: "Soft drinks, hard drugs." It was a schadenfreudian slip!
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