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Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd and Gerard Butler star in "Greenland." (Courtesy of STXfilms) 17 Dec 2020 "Greenland," a Gerard Butler movie directed by Ric Roman Waugh, somehow takes the chaos inspired by an impending extinction-level comet disaster into a movie about family, community and hope for the future. The film, which is being released digitally this week, would have been an excellent night out at the movies in any year but its story of the fear, uncertainty and doubt that grips the ...

CinemaBlend In the harrowing disaster thriller Greenland, Gerard Butler makes a promise to his child, which ends up being very hard to keep. “I swear I’ll get us into those bunkers,” promises the dad. “Because we’re always going to be together.” You can see it in the trailer, which I will include below. The bunkers are a safe haven in the middle of a catastrophic, planet-threatening event. Citizens of the world risk life and limb to get to those bunkers. So when I...

The 25 Best Documentaries of 2020 Though the pandemic has all but murdered moviegoing in 2020, for the lowly documentary film, the distribution landscape has never looked more promising. Often relegated to festivals and then, if fortune-favored, Netflix or HBO, documentaries rarely receive the attention or the right platform to reach more than a specialized audience. If it seems like 2020 was a particularly bright year for documentaries, that might be because you could actually watch many of th...

Dualist brings perfect record to Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun Dec 14, 2020 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com The Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby continues in Wednesday’s Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at Kawasaki. Although no runners from the first scoring race, the Nov. 28 Cattleya Stakes, are involved, the metric mile affair could launch other promising types onto the trail. Dualist extended his record to 3-for-3 in the Dec. 2 Hyogo Junior Grand Prix at Sonoda. Trained by Takayuki Yasuda, who just won S...

Things You Might Have Missed - December 14 Unique looking thoroughbred Saluki Image: Reddit/uEMF911 Heres a few things you might have missed in the wide world of racing over the past week. QUIRKY (from abroad) You wont see many easier wins than Thebannerkingrebel at Plumpton on Monday. After the withdrawal of rival Edwardstone pre-race, that left the 3400m steeplechase as a two-horse affair. And when one of those two, Stratagem, unseated the rider at the first obstacle, the Jamie Sn...

NJPW Super J-Cup 2020 Winner Crowned ); ELP goes back to back to take golden jacket El Phantasmo persevered in the eight man Super J-Cup tournament on December 12 to take the legendary golden jacket, and put himself in an apparent match with Best of the Super Junior winner Hiromu Takahashi at a future date. ); The tournament kicked off with Chris Bey advancing past Clark Connors with the Art of Finesse. Connors controlled Bey early, but the flash of Bey was backed up with some powerful impac...

Sat, 12/12/2020 - 18:29 Mariakalnok Online Auction Following the great success of the inaugural Mariakalnok Online Auction in May 2020, the Mariakalnok Dressage Centre has hand-picked a small, but unique collection of dressage horses for its "Last Chance for Christmas Online Elite Auction." The bidding in the Last Chance for Christmas Online Elite Auction takes place on 20 - 23 December 2020.  A Horse for Christmas The Mariakalnok dressage centre, heading by international Grand Prix r...

A68a: Is the colossal iceberg on a penguin collision course? CNN 12/11/2020 By Thomas Page, CNN © Sentinel Hub EO Browser Iceberg A68a, photographed by European Space Agency satellite Sentinel-3 on December 9, approaches South Georgia in the South Atlantic. On South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic, millions of penguins in some of the largest colonies on the planet live out their days amid a pristine environment shared with only a handful of humans. An ex-whal...

Sponsored by: Sodashi would be the first registered "white" color Thoroughbred to win a Grade 1 race in Japan, if she succeeds on Sunday This coming Sunday and next, the Japan Racing Association turns the spotlight onto the budding talent in this seasons 2-year-olds and its ladies first with the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies on Dec. 13, followed by the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes the week after, also at Hanshin Racecourse. The 72nd Hanshin Juvenile Fillies sees 20 fillies nominated f...

Elaine Chung In Michael Mann’s greatest movies, the good guys are never really all that different from the bad guys. And make no mistake, they are always guys. The heroes and antiheroes of his stylishly macho films are put through their cat-and-mouse paces in a decidedly grey moral world, rather than a black-and-white one. There’s no room for concepts like right and wrong, they are all lonely nocturnal ambiguity—modern-day Ronin sagas cloaked in a cool shades of gun-metal slate. Just th...