• Snakes prefer to avoid humans, but they will strike by accident or in self defense. Snakes in movies are malevolent monsters determined to kill humans at every.
• The Dark Tower. Now maybe Stephen King knows how I felt when I saw the third Alex Cross movie. My condolences. Ironically, I wanted Idris Elba to play Alex Cross.
• The new flick Pokémon: I Choose You! ditches Brock and Misty, but there’s something that might be even more surprising. (Warning: this article has spoilers!).
• Part II of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
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Lin Pictures, one of the producers behind box office blockbuster It, has hired former Tristar TV executive Lindsey Liberatore as SVP of television.

Sin City (film) - Wikipedia. Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City)[3] is a 2. American neo- noircrimeanthology film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. It is based on Miller's graphic novelof the same name.[4]Much of the film is based on the first, third, and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. The Hard Goodbye is about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one- time sweetheart's killer, killing anyone, even the police, that gets in his way of finding and killing her murderer. The Big Fat Kill focuses on an everyman getting caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob. That Yellow Bastard follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer.

Directed by James D.R. Hickox. With David Keith, Vanessa Angel, John Rhys-Davies, Jenna Gering. Scientists create a genetically engineered sabretooth cat and must.

The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story "The Customer is Always Right" which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Elijah Wood, and featuring Alexis Bledel, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, and Makenzie Vega among others. Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique color processing which rendered most of the film in black and white while retaining or adding color for selected objects.

The film was screened at the 2. Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping".[5][6]"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)"[edit]The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save her. The two share a kiss and he shoots her; she dies in his arms. He says he will never know what she was running from but that he will cash her check in the morning, implying she had paid him to kill her."That Yellow Bastard (Part I)"[edit]On the docks of Sin City, aging police officer John Hartigan tries to stop serial child- killer Roark Junior from raping and killing his fourth known victim, eleven- year- old Nancy Callahan. Junior is the son of Senator Roark, who has bribed the police to cover up his son's crimes.

When Hartigan's corrupt partner, Bob, tries to convince Hartigan to walk away, Hartigan knocks him out. Hartigan, experiencing pain from a bad heart, heads into the warehouse where Roark Junior and several henchmen are holding Nancy. Junior shoots Hartigan in the shoulder and tries to escape.

YES ITS THAT BAD! By far the worst movie in either series or any crossover. I’m dead fuckin serious! Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. Daily paper. Local, state, and wire news and commentary. Photo galleries, business and obituaries.

Hartigan catches up and shoots off Junior's ear, hand and genitals. Bob, now recovered, shoots Hartigan in the back. As the sirens approach, Bob leaves and Nancy lies down in Hartigan's lap. Hartigan passes out, reasoning his death is a fair trade for the girl's life."The Hard Goodbye"[edit]After a one- night stand, Marv awakens to find Goldie has been killed while he slept. He flees the frame- up as the police arrive, vowing to avenge her death. His parole officer, Lucille, warns him to give up on this mission, believing Marv may have imagined it all due to his "condition".

Marv interrogates several informants, working up to a corrupt priest, who reveals that the Roark family was behind the murder. Marv kills the priest but is then attacked by a woman who looks like Goldie, which he dismisses as a hallucination. Marv goes to the Roark family farm and is subdued by the silent stalker who killed Goldie. He awakens in the basement to find Lucille has been captured after looking into his story. She tells Marv that the killer is a cannibal and that Goldie was a prostitute.

He learns that the killer's name is Kevin and escapes. Lucille is shot by the leader of a squad of corrupt cops. Marv kills the cops except for their leader, whom he interrogates. He learns that Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark arranged for Goldie's murder. Marv goes to Old Town, Sin City's prostitute- run red- light district, to learn more about Goldie and is captured by her twin sister, Wendy, the attacker Marv previously dismissed as a hallucination. Once he convinces Wendy that he is not the killer, the two return to the farm where Marv kills Kevin.

He confronts Cardinal Roark, who confesses his part in the murders. Kevin was the cardinal's ward; the two men ate the prostitutes to "consume their souls".

Marv kills the cardinal but is then shot and captured by his guards. Marv is taken to a hospital where cops threaten to kill his mother, to get him to confess to killing Roark, Kevin and their victims. He is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Wendy visits him on death row and thanks him for avenging her sister. Marv is then executed."The Big Fat Kill"[edit]Shellie is being harassed by her abusive ex- boyfriend Jackie Boy and his cronies. Her boyfriend Dwight violently warns him to leave Shellie alone. Jackie Boy and his cronies flee to Old Town.

Dwight follows and sees them harass Becky, a young prostitute. Gail, the prostitutes' leader and Dwight's on- and- off lover, also witnesses the scene. When Jackie Boy threatens Becky with a gun, Miho, a martial arts expert, kills Jackie Boy and his friends. They realize Jackie Boy is actually Detective Lieutenant Jack Rafferty of the Basin City Police, considered a "hero cop" by the press. If the cops learn how he died, their truce with the prostitutes would end and the mob would be free to wage war on Old Town.

Dwight takes the bodies to a tar pit, where he is attacked by an ex- IRA mercenary hired by mob boss Wallenquist. He nearly drowns in the tar before Miho saves him.

The mercenary flees to the sewer with Jackie Boy's severed head but Dwight and Miho retrieve it and return to Old Town. Meanwhile, mob enforcer Manute kidnaps Gail. Becky, threatened with the death of her mother by the mob, betrays the prostitutes. Manute prepares the mob's invasion of Old Town. Dwight trades Jackie Boy’s head for Gail's freedom but the head is stuffed with explosives; Dwight detonates it, destroying the evidence and Gail's captors. The other prostitutes gun down the mercenaries while Becky, almost injured in the fight, escapes."That Yellow Bastard (Part II)"[edit]Hartigan is recovering in a hospital when Senator Roark informs him that Junior is in a coma and the Roark legacy is in serious jeopardy. Hartigan will be framed for Junior's crimes; if he tells anyone the truth, they will die.

A grateful Nancy promises to write letters every week while he is in prison. Hartigan goes to jail, though he refuses to confess. He receives a weekly letter from Nancy, as promised. After eight years, the letters stop and he receives a severed finger instead. Hartigan confesses to all charges leading to his parole and searches for an adult Nancy, not knowing he is being followed by a deformed, yellow man. He eventually finds her at Kadie's Bar, where she has become an exotic dancer.

He realizes he was set up to lead the yellow man to Nancy and the two escape in Nancy's car. Hiding in the trunk of Hartigan's car, the deformed man returns, revealing himself as Roark Junior, disfigured by years of surgery to regenerate his body parts.

Junior attacks Hartigan and takes Nancy to the Roark farm to finish what he started eight years before. Hartigan follows and fakes a heart attack, giving him a chance to kill Junior by emasculating him and beating him to death. Knowing that Senator Roark will never stop hunting them, Hartigan commits suicide to ensure Nancy's safety. Again, he justifies his life for Nancy's as a fair trade."The Customer Is Always Right (Part II)"[edit]An injured Becky departs from a hospital, talking on a cell phone with her mother. In the elevator she encounters The Salesman, dressed as a doctor. He offers her a cigarette, calling her by name, and she abruptly ends the call with her mother.

Terrifying Ocean Predator Changes Our View of the Worst Mass Extinction in History. Earth was in a really bad place. At the boundary of the Permian and Triassic periods, our biosphere experienced its most dramatic mass extinction event (so far), one so utterly complete that it has been solemnly termed the “Great Dying.” Precious little was spared, and it’s generally been thought that it took many millions of years for life to stand back up again.

But a recently- discovered fossil dating to just after the Great Dying is helping to erode our vision of a slow post- extinction recovery, showing that ecosystems recovered very quickly, were thriving, and full of teeth. Rows upon rows of razor- edged teeth. Meet Birgeria americana, a new species of large, predatory fish described for the first time in a recent paper in the Journal of Paleontology by a team of Swiss and U. S. paleontologists. The researchers discovered a partial fossil skull of the animal in northeastern Nevada—an area that, 2. Based on the size of this skull, it’s estimated that Birgeria americana was human- sized.

The primitive fish had gaping jaws lined with three rows of sharp, inch- long teeth, and as if that weren’t enough, it had yet more teeth studding the center of its hungry mouth. While other species of Birgeria were previously known to science, this new species is among the largest, and was an apex predator that likely lived and fed much like a shark; by chasing down smaller fish, tearing into them, and swallowing them whole. But Birgeria americana’s top predator status isn’t what makes its discovery so unexpected—it’s when this barracuda- like animal lived.

The fossil dates to only one million years after the Great Dying, suggesting that despite the unmatched ecological chaos of the extinction, some ocean food webs quickly bounced back, acquiring enough depth and complexity to support big, apex predators. Far earlier than what was originally thought possible, Birgeria americana reigned over vibrant marine ecosystems with an iron fin.

This toothy, piscean predator’s discovery builds on an emerging picture of the recovery from life’s nastiest die- off, one that suggests a dogged persistence of life in the wake of cataclysm. Fossils from the early Triassic aftermath are rare, but mounting evidence from what does exist fits well alongside Birgeria americana. Bountiful ocean ecosystems, which predators like Birgeria would have depended on, existed nearby in southeastern Idaho. Land reptiles rebounded almost immediately in South Africa. Of course, the picture these few fossil relics paint is incomplete—more studies are needed to determine if life made a fast recovery everywhere, or if the places where scientists have found vibrant post- Permian ecosystems are the exception. Still, this changing perspective on how abruptly life can get up and dust itself off may bring some relief to those worried that the ongoing, humanity- driven extinction event might permanently disrupt life itself.

But, it’s not just that “life, uh, finds a way”, the survivors find a way, and they make a new world alien to the one that came before. The question that should probably haunt humanity isn’t whether or not there will be survivors on the other side of the next mass extinction, but just how many species will get left behind.

Jake Buehler is a Seattle area science writer with an adoration for the Tree of Life’s weird, wild, and unsung—follow him on Twitter or at his blog. Watch Achmed Saves America IMDB.