Monthly Archives: November 2008

Movie Review: Twilight

There is a fundamental problem when filmmakers decide to make a movie after a film: the reader’s perception of the book.  A reader will always have his/her own ideas of what characters look like, what the scenery looks like and how characters behave.   A filmmaker cannot appease everyone and the filmmaker deals with his/her own [...]
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Movie Twilight in Vanity Fair

Kristen Scott and Robert Pattinson along with the rest of the cast of Twilight are featured in Vanity Fair.  The article, The Twilight Zone, is accompanied by steamy photo’s of the entire cast.  The movie is about a teenage girl, Bella (Kristen Scott), who falls in love with one of the local vampires, Edward (Robert Pattinson).  [...]
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Crystal Caverns in Mexico

National Geographic recently published an article, Cavern of Crystal Giants.  The crystals were discovered in 2000 by two brothers were excavating in the mines Chihuahua, Mexico.  The crystals are massive and are up to 37 feet long.  It takes 20 minutes to get down to the caves the temperature is 112 degrees.  In order to [...]
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