2000 ft. of climbing. 2 hours and 50 minutes. No rope. No harness. Or any sort of safety gear. Alone on the wall - Alex Honnold free-solos the Regular NW face of Half-Dome.
Wednesday 30 November 2011
The ascent of Alex Honnold
Mountain climber Alex Honnold seems to defy gravity, scaling sheer, steep rock faces with no rope and apparently no fear as seen on TV’s 60 minutes
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player, and pacifist searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks. Starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, James Gandolfini
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked
Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
war horse
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
the odd life of timothy green
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears in this Disney film.
SINK THE BISMARK
Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled.
and of course the famous song by Johnny Horton
Tuesday 29 November 2011
blitz
Detective Sergeant Tom Brant who is dispatched to take down a serial killer hell bent on killing off the police force one by one. "The Blitz" manages to slip through the grasp of Tom every time, and with the precious lives of his colleagues diminishing one by one, Tom is led to the question: if we can't protect our own, then what good are we? Starring Jason Statham, Luke Evans
Harry Potter finale wins Children's Bafta double
The final outing in the Harry Potter franchise scooped best film and an audience gong at the Children's Baftas.
Star Warwick Davis, picking up best film, thanked author JK Rowling for "amazing material" saying he would take the prize to her "with absolute pride".
Peppa Pig also won twice with nine-year old Harley Bird - the voice of Peppa - winning the performer award.
Newsround, which celebrates its 40th birthday in 2012, won the special award while CBeebies was channel of the year.
CBBC, meanwhile, was the channel with the most awards, taking home five awards in its own right.
It was also credited, along with Aardman, Tate and Fallon, for interactive prize-winner Tate Movie Project.
The programme, which began in 1972, was originally called John Craven's Newsround
Davis, who plays both Professor Filius Flitwick and Griphook the goblin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, said: "It's just such a tremendous team effort on these films, literally hundreds of people go to put these films together and make them what they are."
John Craven, who presented Newsround from its first show, in April 1972, to June 1989, said many people in TV "tend to be remembered for programmes they personally would prefer to forget".
"But I'm terribly proud of Newsround, always have been," he told the audience at the ceremony at London's Park Lane Hilton.
"It does come as a bit of a shock these days when people who I think look pretty old come up to me and say, 'thank you for being part of my childhood'."
Yes, I remember Newsround 40 years ago, I do remember it, and it meant a great deal to me and it also matters to my two sons - I really appreciate that”
The controller of CBeebies, Kay Benbow, picking up the award for best channel, also paid tribute to the show.
"Yes, I remember Newsround 40 years ago, I do remember it, and it meant a great deal to me and it also matters to my two sons - I really appreciate that."
She said the best channel award was "as always, for our very youngest viewers".
It was also a strong night for sister station CBBC with prizes including best comedy, for Horrible Histories, best drama show, for Just William, and best entertainment programme, for Trapped.
The channel's wildlife documentary programme, Deadly 60, won best factual
Weevils triumph
The Amazing World of Gumball, shown on the Cartoon Network, won the animation award while the programme's James Lamont and Jon Foster won the writer prize.
Peppa Pig, shown on Channel 5, won the pre-school animation prize.
The international award went to Fish Hooks, shown on Disney Channel UK, while the pre-school live action prize went to CiTV's Bookaboo.
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean won the video game award while Nose Dive Studios, a team of 15-year-olds from London, won the Bafta young game designers award.
Joining the Potter film as winners of the Bafta Kids' Vote awards, chosen by young fans, were the Disney Channel's Good Luck Charlie, video game Just Dance 2 and website Bin Weevils.
Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp and comedian Jack Whitehall were among award presenters at the ceremony, hosted by Blue Peter presenter Barney Harwood.
programme while presenter Steve Backshall picked up the presenter prize.
the thing
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller "The Thing," paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
"The Thing" serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name.
the adventures of tintin
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Screenplay by Steven Moffatt and starring Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig
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Monday 28 November 2011
the innkeepers
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire and Luke - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage "ghost hunters" begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel's long unexplained history.
ISS Tour - Welcome To The International Space Station!
A video tour of the International Space Station SOME STREAMING MAY
BE NECESSARY IF SLOW VIEWING
Anonymous
A political thriller advancing the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays; set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
the vow
Starring Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange
A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) works to win her heart again.
German builds world’s largest model airport
It took a grand total of six years to build but an incredible new miniature model, called Knuffingen Airport, based on Hamburg’s airport, has finally opened to the public.
It’s on display at Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, and features 40 aircraft that take off and land and 90 vehicles that trundle around the runways automatically.
Making something this small and perfectly formed doesn’t come cheap. It cost 3.5million Euros – but the result is plane-ly amazing.
Size doesn't matter: The opening of the new miniature model Knuffingen Aiport at Miniatur Wunderland
The real airport opened in 1911 and remains the oldest operational airport in the world. When it was first built it covered a mere 45 hectares – it’s now ten times bigger and measures a whopping 2.2sq miles.
The various vehicles and planes on the model version are able to move around thanks to an innovative ‘carsystem’, which manoeuvres the vehicles by computer.
The planes even take off thanks to miniature wires that carry them off the end of the runway.
From up here, the planes look like ants: The aircraft are small, but perfectly formed
The longer you look at it, the more it's obvious why it took so many years to complete
Way to glow: Knuffingen Airport even lights up at night
The attention to detail is astounding. The planes park themselves and passenger walkways slowly move into place.
The tow trucks even feature little flashing orange lights and the petrol tanks can be seen indicating which way they are about to turn. What's more, the airport lights up spectacularly to create an entrancing night scene.
Watch a YouTube video of the incredible model below:
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