A Minute With: Milla Jovovich in "Resident Evil"
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Actress Milla Jovovich returns to movie theaters with "Resident Evil: Afterlife," the fourth installment of the successful video game-to-film horror franchise -- only this time she is in 3D. (full story...)

'Mrs. Robinson, You're Trying to Print a Document': Google as Muse
The search giant's text-predicting technology is tested out on a Bob Dylan song and some well-known movie lines. (full story...)

Superheroes are misunderstood
To call Batman a bad role model for boys because he is 'socially unjust' is to miss the complexity of such superheroesAfter surveying 674 boys aged four to 18, Professor Sharon Lamb of the University of Massachusetts criticised the narrow depictions of masculinity in recent movie adaptations of Iron Man and Batma....(more) (full story...)

Venice Rolls Out Some Big Guns
The 67th Venice film festival continued to unveil a good international spread of movies, but a couple on which high expectations were riding failed to deliver. (full story...)

Disney's Mulan takes a hammer to a Chinese puzzle
The new live action update will hopefully do better than this animated effort, which pillages and burns its way through sixth-century Chinese historyDirector: Tony Bancroft and Barry CookEntertainment grade: B+History grade: EMulan was a legendary Chinese heroine, said to have disguised herself as a man and joined an army. PeopleIt seems young Mula....(more) (full story...)

Urban design lessons from the world’s poorest neighborhoods
by Sarah Goodyear. The glossy cities of the world’s wealthiest nations could learn a thing or two about sustainable living by studying the downtrodden slums and shantytowns around the globe, where a billion people make their homes. That’s what architects and urban designers Pavlina Ilieva and Kuo Pao Lian are saying, in an article firs....(more) (full story...)

Pentax's new DSLR is packed with creative features
Macworld.com - Pentax on Wednesday announced the new K-r, a successor to last year's well-received K-x mid-level DSLR. The K-r improves on the core features of the colorful K-x in a number of ways. It has a new 12.4 megapixel CMOS sensor optimized for low-light, 720p HD movie recording at 25 frames per second, in-bod....(more) (full story...)

Japanese samurai movie pokes fun at tradition
VENICE (Reuters) - Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" is a surprisingly conventional remake of a 1963 samurai movie, but he injects enough horror and humour to win over viewers at the Venice film festival. (full story...)

"Resident Evil" movie uses 3D to engage viewers
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Video gamers are used to immersing themselves into virtual worlds so filmmakers turning video games into movies are aiming to keep them as involved, by adding 3D. (full story...)

Are Video Games About War Better Than Movies About War?
What does it mean that the most popular cultural depictions of America's current wars happen to be video games? (full story...)