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Jeremy Renner Is Not Jason Bourne In New Bourne Movie

Jeremy Renner has been cast as the lead in the new, non-Greengrass, non-Damon Jason Bourne sequel, but is not playing Jason Bourne. Via Yahoo! Movies:

Universal couldn’t let such a profitable franchise die, though, so they gave Gilroy the director’s chair and set about casting a new lead, someone who is not Jason Bourne, but is certainly cut from his proverbial cloth.

Now, I am all for a Bourne movie without the annoying, action-destroying Paul Greengrass Super-Shaky-Cam, but a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne is kind of confusing. What’s the point? Other than the money, of course.

 

StarTalk: Scientists Discuss Best/Worst Science In Movies

This episode of the StarTalk radio show has astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Phil Plait, “The Bad Astronomer,” discuss the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of science in the movies.

Most nerdy part: midway through the podcast they have a contest to see who can point out the most nitpicky science errors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Near the end of the show, Neil tells the story of how he called out James Cameron for showing the wrong sky at the end of Titanic.

StarTalk, Season 2, Episode 17 – Science at the Movies

Straight-to-DVD Corner with Tonn Slingdog: Infestation

This one came out in 2009. You know, olden times. I avoided the hell out of it because I had been burnt by one too many duller-than-hell SyFy Channel giant cartoon bug movies. But it was offered up on iTunes as a 99 cent rental, and I needed to take a plane ride, so I bit the bullet. Continue reading Straight-to-DVD Corner with Tonn Slingdog: Infestation