The  Moluccan cockatoos are endangered because for every one captured in the wild, there are 20 or thirty killed. If the captured birds have this self-destructive behavior it means that they will not be able to be bred in captivity successfully. Thus, with many killed in the wild, and no captive breeding the bird is…

Like several of the day's Newswire items, this movie represents the sound of barrels being scraped to find something to make by the studios.Original ideas are just too hard for the current crop of studio bean-counters.

Like several of the day's Newswire items, this movie represents the sound of barrels being scraped to find something to make by the studios.Original ideas are just too hard for the current crop of studio bean-counters.

Verhoeven is basically following the classic theory of Jesus called "The Passover Plot"-a Jewish guy who wanted to rouse his fellow Jews against the Romans by posing as the miracle working Messiah people were talking about in those days, but a Roman soldier stabbing him in the side screwed up his back-from-the-dead…

Verhoeven is basically following the classic theory of Jesus called "The Passover Plot"-a Jewish guy who wanted to rouse his fellow Jews against the Romans by posing as the miracle working Messiah people were talking about in those days, but a Roman soldier stabbing him in the side screwed up his back-from-the-dead…

Mr. Cohen will have to pay some money to the writer who wrote a book with just this idea.

Mr. Cohen will have to pay some money to the writer who wrote a book with just this idea.

There are several problems Disney has not considered (yet).
1. Tigers are an very endangered species in India (and elsewhere) thanks to China, who kills tigers for their folk medicine properties (think organic Cialis). 2. Disney has not released an intelligent, sympathetic nature movie since Day One. 3. Disney has not…

Edgar Allan Poe  is an interesting figure, the inventor of the mystery story and an intelligent movie about him would have been interesting (he fancied widows and other older women, and died mysteriously; people think one of these women's relatives did him in). Actually the writer who would make an good subject is…

Didn't know Savages was a popular book. I guess at the publisher's "request", Don Winslow has now written a prequel to Savages, showing how the principal characters got that way. By summer we will know if another movie is on the way.

Thanks. I fixed it. They obviously started with the book and lost everything but a few details. Once they did, they realized no money needed to change hands.

Although it gets very little mention, Project X is the name of a small novel by the author Jim Shepard, which concerns a character sucked into a Columbine type murder plot. He has an angry devious friend, named Costa, just like in the movie, and they plan to shoot up their school, where the lead character screwed up…

CBS has obviously not read the not-bad mystery novels by SJ Rozan which feature sexual tension between an Anglo private eye and an oriental partner.

Charlie Chan was origianally a Honolulu police detective-in life and in the Earl Derr Biggers novels. So he could travel the USA with no problems. Actually a remake of the original Charlie Chan set in Hawaii might give the appalling Hawaii Five-o a run for its money.

He got kicked out of Vegas at the end of the first, very good movie. Second movie (not bad) was in Seattle, series was in TV Land. Problem with series was always a very low budget.

In one episode he tried to prove the existence of an invisible alien. Government agents tried to thwart him. If you want to see the exact prototype of an "X-files" mythology episode, look no further.

Imagine how much more interesting this movie would be if McLane's son was a young teenager, full of irrational adolescent rage. He somehow gets into his father's adventures and does rather well for himself, like Tintin in that 'animated' movie.
At the end McLane realizes to his horror that his son has learned the…

Just wait until Downton Abbey introduces Shirley MacLaine as Elizabeth McGovern's mother next season.

Monk developed his approach to piano after the experience of hearing other people playing his innovations (think bebop) at Minton's (when he was the pianist), the day after he first played them. Monk being Monk he said to himself,"I'm going to play in a way NO ONE can imitate". He could play any way anyone else could.…

LP track down challenge: Back To Jazz by the Johnny Otis orchestra-including Shuggie, Fred Jackson, and other guys from Otis' old band. great record.