Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake), the hero of Runner Runner, is a smart kid who tries to win his tuition money for Princeton by playing some online poker. When he discovers that the game is fixed, he hightails it down to Costa Rica to confront vaguely legendary gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), and he allows himself to get drawn into the high life that Block offers. Filled with lush views of tropical beaches, expensive parties and apartments, and sumptuously beautiful but barely characterized women, Runner Runner is the kind of meat-and-potatoes genre picture that might be passable if the people involved in making it had given the same thought and concentration to the development of the plot and the ending as they did to the fairly involving set-up.
Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
April 29, 2021
Nearly 10,000 acres of lush seagrass vanished from Florida Bay between 1987 and 1991, leading to massive ecological changes in the region near the Florida Keys. Abundance of the seagrass, Thalassia testudinum, more commonly known as turtlegrass, a foundation species of the Florida Bay ecosystem, decreased extensively during what is considered to be one of the largest declines in seagrass cover in recent history.
Researchers from the University of South Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the University of North Carolina Wilmington documented the response of seagrasses after the die-off. Their detailed data collection
We caught up with director
Brad Furman to dish about his latest film “City of Lies,” based on the book, “LAbyrinth,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Randall Sullivan, about the unsolved murder of hip-hop star
Christopher Wallace aka
The Notorious B.I.G.
Per press release, this compelling crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of the iconic rap artist. Oscar nominee
Johnny Depp stars as determined LAPD detective
Russell Poole, who spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Oscar and Primetime Emmy winner
Forest Whitaker as Jack Jackson, a journalist who teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains cold and why a secret division of the LAPD is seemingly set on keeping it that way.
’s character tells your character, Michael, that he’s the odd man out, which is putting it mildly. Take me through your approach to that entire sequence since it’s a really strong showcase for you. I wanted to shoot a layer of emotions. So I had some takes where I was crying, and I had other takes where I was exploding. I also had some takes where I was more internal. I was really just finding what that scene could be, and there was no right or wrong answer. Funnily enough, the editor created a montage of so many emotions, which you saw in the final edit. Joe Penna made a choice to stick the camera on me, and I asked him why he did that as Michael was being informed of this horrific news. And he said, “It’s because the audience knows the truth already, and we want to see that through your eyes.” And I
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