An analysis of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover indicates that Mars could have supported living microbes, the American space agency NASA has said. "A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment. From what we know now, the answer is yes," Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program told reporters on Tuesday. ...
03:49 AM, Mar 13, 2013
New Delhi: The initial reports about the business of 'Joker' don't seem good. Most of the reviewers have found a lot of flaws in the film. The film features a NASA scientist who returns to India in order to get basic amenities for his fellow villagers. He cooks up a story about aliens to get media talking about Paglapur village that cartographers have ignored. As a film whose lead protagonist...
12:05 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Mumbai: As actor Akshay Kumar's upcoming film 'Joker' revolves around aliens, he learnt a new language to communicate with them. Directed by Shirish Kunder, 'Joker' is a fantasy-adventure film starring Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Shreyas Talpade and Minnisha Lamba. "In the film there is a real alien Golkot who we have introduced. The only person who understands and talks the alien language is Shreyas Talpade. In this film Akshay will...
05:11 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Mumbai: Choreographer-turned-filmmaker Farah Khan, who is quite upbeat about her next home production Joker, has planned 'out-of-the-box' promotion for the film claiming it is a very different movie. At a promotional event of the movie today at a mall in suburban Mumbai, Farah was accompanied by three alien characters of the film. "It is the strategy that we, UTV Motion Pictures and Akshay Kumar have decided that we will do...
06:26 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: In 'Men in Black 3', Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time...
12:48 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Washington: If alien life really exists, they would have found humans by now, but consciously avoiding us for unknown reasons, a new study has suggested. Researchers, who calculated the time a society would take to muster up the resources and know-how to travel to another world, found that alien civilisations starting from the oldest stars in the galaxy would have had more than enough time to reach Earth. "We are...
04:44 PM, Feb 01, 2012
London: The Girl power action film 'Sucker Punch' has been voted as the worst film of 2011 in an online poll conducted by movie website Fandango.com. Dailystar.co.uk reports that the film directed by Zach Snyder beat 'Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star' and 'Cowboys and Aliens' to top the Thanksgiving Day-themed top movie Turkey list. 'Shark Night 3D' and 'Mars Needs Moms' also made to the top five, while...
12:35 PM, Nov 26, 2011
London: Actress Olivia Wilde says she feels proud that Daniel Craig, the "James Bond" himself was her instructor and taught her how to shoot. "I was really excited about being the woman in the shadows in this movie, the kind of Clint Eastwood character. I never wanted to be a typical girl in a Western," contactmusic.com quoted her as saying. "Daniel was actually the one who taught me how to...
10:45 PM, Aug 16, 2011
London: Men in black, Mork and Mindy, shining lights in the sky and more than 20 years of other alien visitations and bizarre sightings recorded in Britain's own "X-Files" were made available online to the public on Thursday. The nearly 9,000 pages of UFO-related documents, drawings, letters and parliamentary questions recorded by Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) from 1985 to 2007 are the eighth batch of UFO files to be...
12:29 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Los Angeles: The tiny blue Smurfs battled big-name, big-budget Cowboys & Aliens to a surprising tie at the domestic weekend box office with each film ringing up an estimated $36.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday. The Smurfs live-action and animated 3D film drew families to the latest adventure of the classic Belgian cartoon characters and grossed higher-than-expected sales. Cowboys & Aliens fell short of pre-release...
01:48 PM, Aug 01, 2011
This week on Now Showing, Rajeev Masand reviews 'The Smurfs', 'The Tree of Life' and 'Cowboys & Aliens'. ...
02:12 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Rajeev Masand says, 'Cowboys & Aliens is a humourless affair.' What do you feel? Write your review and win prizes.
10:46 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Abigail Spencer Director: Jon Favreau As many as six writers are credited with bringing 'Cowboys & Aliens' to the screen. It's true what they say about too many cooks. This Western-meets-sci-fi khichdi is a somber and humourless affair with none of the popcorn fun that you expect from a film with a goofy title like this. Set in the 1870s, the film stars...
10:37 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Much awaited drama 'Gandhi to Hitler", 'Smurfs' and Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life' hits theatres this Friday. ...
09:26 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Based on an 1873 incident in Arizona, the movie stars Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde. ...
08:58 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Moscow: Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted on Monday. "The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years," Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. Speaking at an...
10:51 AM, Jun 28, 2011
James Bond actor Daniel Craig turned chef on the set of Cowboys & Aliens but ditched the role when the entire crew queued up. Reports said that Craig eventually called in caterers when word of his delicious meals spread on the set. "I cook a few steaks and suddenly there are 50 f****** people there. Then I didn't bother and got some catering people in," said Craig. The actor plays...
01:34 PM, May 04, 2011
