Screening Room: Film academy salutes inventor Petro Vlahos

A Michael Schultz double feature, silent comedies, rock documentaries and Hugh Hefner are also on tap. Petro Vlahos might not be a household name, but he's one of the most accomplished scientific and technical innovators in film and television. He holds more than 35 patents on equipment including camera crane motor controls, optical soundtracks and projection screens, but he's best known for ...

Keynesianism Kapitulates To Kondoms? Bill Gross Suggests The Demographic Growth Crunch Will Put Keynesian Policies To ...

After entertaining some potty humor for a page or two in his latest brief, Bill Gross conducts an interesting thought experiment in which he presents an anti-Malthusian economic hypothesis, which states that predicated by declining global population growth, the global economy will be unable to grow into its full potential, regardless of size (or usage) of any new trillions of stimulus. "This is ...

Wilmington on DVD: Clash of the Titans, The Secret of the Grain, Yasujiro Ozu, The Art of the Steal, Repo Men, Fanboys

The Kraken, Medusa, Pegasus and the lobster monsters are smashing successes in director Louis Leterrier's lavish remake of Clash of the Titans -- the 1981 Ray Harryhausen mythological epic. But the people and the gods could use a little more work. That's a typical story for a big-studio fantasy blockbuster: great CGI, great effects and action, but obvious characters spouting, in this case ...

An Overall Picture

Ina room where gadgets invite comparisons to James Bond and "Star Wars," Tyler Maddox has one-upped his competition in the world of commercial photography.

Fictitious memory

A few years ago, a book in a Tel Aviv used-book store caught the eye of documentary filmmaker Ari Libsker. The book, written in Hebrew, featured hard-core pornography, but what attracted his attention was its setting and the identity of its characters.