An Older Vampire Movie

Finished watching that movie "Rise". As vampire movies go, its ok. It seems to get some of its canon from "The Hunger" i.e., they need to use a small knife to make the wound, no supernatural strength, a couple of gunshots is enough to at least temp stop one. Sunlight not to big a deal, etc. As an overall movie, it could have used a better crew (director, script writer, and replace a few actors, better editing). In one scene a sailor is shown in his crackerjack but his uniform is missing the neckerchief. Several scenes adding nothing to the movie except time. It is listed as 122 min.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389328/

Have A BBQ While Thousands Die and Loot Just An Hour Away

Luxury Cruise Ship Docks On Private Haitian Beach, Just 60 Miles From Devastation

Tue Jan 19, 8:58 am ET

BoingBoing reported this morning on a Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines ship that made its scheduled docking at a private beach. Though the cruise ship delivered 40 pallets of relief supplies while it docked, vacationers frolicked and held a barbecue on the private area, just miles from the devastation caused by the 7.0 earthquake last week.

From The Guardian:

The decision to go ahead with the visit has divided passengers. The ships carry some food aid, and thecruise line has pledged to donate all proceeds from the visit to help stricken Haitians. But many passengers will stay aboard when they dock; one said he was "sickened".

"I just can't see myself sunning on the beach, playing in the water, eating a barbecue, and enjoying a cocktail while [in Port-au-Prince] there are tens of thousands of dead people being piled up on the streets, with the survivors stunned and looking for food and water," one passenger wrote on the Cruise Critic internet forum.

Slumdog star’s home demolished

ecember 30, 2009

Rubina Ali, child star of the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, watches as her shack in Mumbai is demolished.

Rubina’s autobiography, "Slumgirl Dreaming", was published earlier this year. Poor kid. Guess it doesn't compare to the mass hell in Haiti right now.

Green Lantern's nemesis

Peter Sarsgaard goes big time as 'Green Lantern's' nemesis

The Emerald Crusader already has his love interest, Blake Lively, and now he's got an adversary for his big screen debut. Peter Sarsgaard (acting is ho hum but still pretty solid) is joining the cast of Martin Campbell's "Green Lantern" as the evil Dr. Hector Hammond. The disappointing son of a U.S. senator, Hammond gains telepathic and telekinetic abilities after he discovers a mysterious meteor. Ryan Reynolds is already on board as Hal Jordan, a test pilot who finds a dying alien who bestows the ring of the Green Lantern Corps, making him the new guardian of Earth's sector. Blake Lively was cast as Reynold's love interest, Carol Ferris. Its looking better and better.

Testing the waters

This is akin to sticking your toes in a dubious looking body of water.