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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