"Cosmos" would like you to know that the universe is big, fast and really weird. That's basically what "A Sky Full of Ghosts" is about. Considering that the "ghosts" in question are observations of stars whose light has traveled for hundreds and thousands of years, astronomy is essentially seeing into the past.
Which is pretty cool. Other cool things are in the recap below.
Congratulations! You are the center of the universe! (kind of)
Thanks to the Big Bang Theory and the idea that light has a definite and limited speed, you can now tell your parents that you are, in fact, the center of the universe. Just don't tell them that they are too. Every place in the universe actually appears to be the center and everything is moving away from every point.
What comes before/further than the 13.4 billion-light-years-away starlight? According to most theories, that's pretty much it:...
Which is pretty cool. Other cool things are in the recap below.
Congratulations! You are the center of the universe! (kind of)
Thanks to the Big Bang Theory and the idea that light has a definite and limited speed, you can now tell your parents that you are, in fact, the center of the universe. Just don't tell them that they are too. Every place in the universe actually appears to be the center and everything is moving away from every point.
What comes before/further than the 13.4 billion-light-years-away starlight? According to most theories, that's pretty much it:...
- 3/31/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
If you’re looking for a show about Einstein and other big names in science, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey isn’t for you. That’s because the new show, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, focuses on the lesser-known names who had a big impact.
Executive producer Seth MacFarlane spoke about this in a Sirius Xm Town Hall, hosted by Entertainment Weekly editor Matt Bean.
In clips of the chat below, MacFarlane talks about new discoveries he made, including the story of Dominican monk Giordano Bruno. Bruno, who was featured in the show’s first episode, is thought to be one...
Executive producer Seth MacFarlane spoke about this in a Sirius Xm Town Hall, hosted by Entertainment Weekly editor Matt Bean.
In clips of the chat below, MacFarlane talks about new discoveries he made, including the story of Dominican monk Giordano Bruno. Bruno, who was featured in the show’s first episode, is thought to be one...
- 3/14/2014
- by Ariana Bacle
- EW - Inside TV
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" is one of the most interesting, accessible and beautiful pieces of scientific television to appear in decades -- basically since the original "Cosmos" with Carl Sagan. Revived by host (and astronomer) Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth MacFarlane (yes, the "Family Guy" guy) and Ann Druyan (Sagan's widow), the new "Cosmos" aims to bring the universe's beauty and wonder to audiences.
Does it succeed?
As long as "Cosmos" sticks to the science it knows best, yes. "Cosmos" is almost as scientifically amazing as it is beautiful. This is no dry textbook -- it's a fun and informative look at the universe.
When "Cosmos" falters -- possibly fatally for some -- is in taking tentative steps away from science and into realms like history and religion. Possibly offensive to some, certainly confusing to many and occasionally inaccurate, "Cosmos" isn't so great in these areas.
But let's look at the show's considerable success first.
Does it succeed?
As long as "Cosmos" sticks to the science it knows best, yes. "Cosmos" is almost as scientifically amazing as it is beautiful. This is no dry textbook -- it's a fun and informative look at the universe.
When "Cosmos" falters -- possibly fatally for some -- is in taking tentative steps away from science and into realms like history and religion. Possibly offensive to some, certainly confusing to many and occasionally inaccurate, "Cosmos" isn't so great in these areas.
But let's look at the show's considerable success first.
- 3/10/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Awesome" and "unique" are among the words that have been cheapened from overuse. For "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," let's restore both words to their rightful place.
This is an amazing example of what can happen when nonfiction TV is done with imagination, vision and purpose.
With the largest launch of a show in television history, it premieres Sunday, March 9, on 120 Fox networks and stations in 125 countries and on 90 National Geographic channels in more than 180 countries.
The show, though, is far more than the impressive numbers a media giant can deliver. It is what's at the heart of it that excites: An unquenchable thirst for discovery.
That's where host Neil deGrasse Tyson comes in. If you haven't encountered him, Tyson, 55, is basically the only rock star astrophysicist around. The Bronx-raised scientist has a direct yet fun knack for explaining complex matters.
"The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be,...
This is an amazing example of what can happen when nonfiction TV is done with imagination, vision and purpose.
With the largest launch of a show in television history, it premieres Sunday, March 9, on 120 Fox networks and stations in 125 countries and on 90 National Geographic channels in more than 180 countries.
The show, though, is far more than the impressive numbers a media giant can deliver. It is what's at the heart of it that excites: An unquenchable thirst for discovery.
That's where host Neil deGrasse Tyson comes in. If you haven't encountered him, Tyson, 55, is basically the only rock star astrophysicist around. The Bronx-raised scientist has a direct yet fun knack for explaining complex matters.
"The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be,...
- 3/9/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Like reboots of most anything, be it the Star Trek film franchise or the Hannibal television series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (premiering Sunday, March 9 on Fox) does not require familiarity with its original incarnation to be appreciated and enjoyed. Yet comparing the two shows, and their first episodes, is instructive. The first Cosmos, broadcast on PBS in 1980, had a different subtitle: “A personal voyage.” The person implied was the viewer — all of humanity. It was also the creative intelligence behind the series, astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who died in 1996. His widely watched series explored all of creation, and expressed all of himself — his mind,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW.com - PopWatch
If you didn’t already know that Fox’s new Cosmos sequel is not like PBS’s 1980 original, you’d figure it out during the pilot’s long animated sequence about Giordano Bruno, a 16th-century Italian Dominican friar who was imprisoned and then burned at the stake. Bruno’s crime was building on the theories of Copernicus and positing an endless universe. We understand what that imaginative leap cost him when Cosmos cuts away from the animation and pans across a tabletop filled with torture implements used on the friar. They look like woodworker’s tools. Cosmos spares us a demonstration of what they could do to flesh, but the point is still made: In the war to assure religion’s preeminence, heretics were shown no mercy.The new Cosmos makes it clear that the war is still going on, and that this series is determined to be...
- 2/28/2014
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Topol, Tom Conti, Edward Fox and John Gielgud add up to one clever biopic, if you subtract 45 minutes of flagging in the middle
Galileo (1974)
Director: Joseph Losey
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: A–
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and mathematician, and one of the most important historical figures in the development of modern physics.
Casting
It's 1609, and a skint, grumpy Galileo teaches mathematics in Padua. He is played by Topol. Yes, Topol, from Fiddler on the Roof. Critics were sniffy at the time, complaining that he didn't bring intelligence to the role – unlike, they said, the mostly British supporting cast, which includes Tom Conti and Edward Fox. In fact, Topol isn't that bad. He emphasises Galileo's earthiness instead of restrained scientific dignity, but that's a reasonable interpretation. The real Galileo is said to have played theatrically to audiences in Pisa, climbing the famous tower and throwing objects of...
Galileo (1974)
Director: Joseph Losey
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: A–
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and mathematician, and one of the most important historical figures in the development of modern physics.
Casting
It's 1609, and a skint, grumpy Galileo teaches mathematics in Padua. He is played by Topol. Yes, Topol, from Fiddler on the Roof. Critics were sniffy at the time, complaining that he didn't bring intelligence to the role – unlike, they said, the mostly British supporting cast, which includes Tom Conti and Edward Fox. In fact, Topol isn't that bad. He emphasises Galileo's earthiness instead of restrained scientific dignity, but that's a reasonable interpretation. The real Galileo is said to have played theatrically to audiences in Pisa, climbing the famous tower and throwing objects of...
- 9/26/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
PopCap games will appear bundled on select Sony Ericsson smartphones in Europe. Sony Ericson Xperia mini and Xperia mini pro smartphone models will come bundled with select titles to mark the arrival of PopCap games on Android devices in Europe. The games to be included are a full copy of Chuzzle and unlimited free trial versions of popular PopCap titles such as Plants vs Zombies and Peggle. "We are delighted to partner with Sony Ericsson to fulfil our promise to Android users and bring PopCap's hit mobile games to an ever-widening base of smartphone users," said PopCap's Giordano Bruno Contestabile. "As (more)...
- 7/20/2011
- by By Scott Nichols
- Digital Spy
Photo on the right: ©Syd M
Updated through 6/3.
"Seminal avant-garde filmmaker and retired Bard College professor Adolfas Mekas, who co-founded Film Culture magazine with his brother and fellow filmmaker Jonas Mekas in 1955 and taught at Bard for 33 years, died this morning from an unexpected heart problem," reports indieWIRE's Eric Kohn. He was 85. "After immigrating from Lithuania with his brother in 1949, Mekas played a key role in the New American Cinema movement that congealed around the publication of Film Culture. He produced several experimental features, including the acclaimed 1963 love triangle comedy Hallelujah the Hills, which played at the Cannes Film Festival that year."
Richard Roud, who programed the film for the first edition of the New York Film Festival in 1963, call this story of two men in love with the same woman a "satire on the American way of life, and at the same time a hymn to the joys of youth and friendship.
Updated through 6/3.
"Seminal avant-garde filmmaker and retired Bard College professor Adolfas Mekas, who co-founded Film Culture magazine with his brother and fellow filmmaker Jonas Mekas in 1955 and taught at Bard for 33 years, died this morning from an unexpected heart problem," reports indieWIRE's Eric Kohn. He was 85. "After immigrating from Lithuania with his brother in 1949, Mekas played a key role in the New American Cinema movement that congealed around the publication of Film Culture. He produced several experimental features, including the acclaimed 1963 love triangle comedy Hallelujah the Hills, which played at the Cannes Film Festival that year."
Richard Roud, who programed the film for the first edition of the New York Film Festival in 1963, call this story of two men in love with the same woman a "satire on the American way of life, and at the same time a hymn to the joys of youth and friendship.
- 6/5/2011
- MUBI
Versatile producer and director who made Prime Suspect an enduring success
Paul Marcus, who has died of cancer aged 56, was best known for his award-winning work as producer of the television series Prime Suspect. However, most of his career was devoted to directing, for theatre and cinema, as well as for TV.
The first series of the police drama Prime Suspect, written by Lynda La Plante and following Dci Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren) as she led her first major murder investigation, was aired by Granada TV in 1991, to wide acclaim. Marcus was asked by Granada to take over as producer on the second series. He bravely invited an unknown director, John Strickland, to oversee the drama, but his choice proved justified, with Prime Suspect 2 matching the success of the first series and receiving an International Emmy award as well as Bafta recognition.
Fired by the belief that...
Paul Marcus, who has died of cancer aged 56, was best known for his award-winning work as producer of the television series Prime Suspect. However, most of his career was devoted to directing, for theatre and cinema, as well as for TV.
The first series of the police drama Prime Suspect, written by Lynda La Plante and following Dci Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren) as she led her first major murder investigation, was aired by Granada TV in 1991, to wide acclaim. Marcus was asked by Granada to take over as producer on the second series. He bravely invited an unknown director, John Strickland, to oversee the drama, but his choice proved justified, with Prime Suspect 2 matching the success of the first series and receiving an International Emmy award as well as Bafta recognition.
Fired by the belief that...
- 3/4/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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