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'Chernobyl Diaries' review: Just think of the TripAdvisor reviews
1/2* (out of four) Consider the possible outcomes of piling into a van for an off-limits tour of a deserted disaster area with potentially dangerous radiation levels. A. Everything goes smoothly while you take insensitive photos of crumbling buildings...
Tags: Entertainment, Horror (genre), Jonathan Sadowski, Paranormal Activity (movie), Chernobyl Diaries (movie)
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River Monsters Season 5 will include visits to Chernobyl and Loch Ness
Channel Guide Magazine“I realize there will come a point at which my searching must come to an end — once I've found every river monster and all the world's underwater mysteries are solved,” says biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade, host of Animal... -
VOD Spotlight: the eerie truth behind “Chernobyl Diaries”
Channel Guide MagazineYou have to admit that it’s a pretty creepy setting. Chernobyl Diaries is set in the town of Pripyat, in the Ukraine. Back in the waning days of the Soviet Union, Pripyat was the location of the world’s most infamous nuclear plant disaster.... -
'Chernobyl Diaries': Horror movie and travel book depict extreme tourism
24 Frames"Chernobyl Diaries," a horror movie following a group of tourists on an excursion to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the meltdown, hits theaters just as a pollution travelogue by journalist Andrew Blackwell, "Visit Sunny Chernobyl," is arriving in book... -
'Chernobyl Diaries' mines nuclear disaster for horror thrills
24 FramesAudiences will get a history lesson of sorts from "Chernobyl Diaries," a movie due in theaters May 25 which follows a group of young American tourists in Europe on a jaunt to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the 1986 nuclear meltdown.... -
'Raid: Redemption': Director Gareth Evans kicks up action [Video]
24 Frames“The Raid: Redemption,” which was produced for around $1 million, has been a critical darling on the festival circuit since it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The action film opens in the U.S. and Indonesia on Friday.... -
Nuclear power debate: How much of our fear is rooted in propaganda?
Opinion L.A.If you caught the April 1 episode of "This American Life," a fear of nuclear power may have been cemented. In one segment, actors read harrowing passages from "Voices from Chernobyl," a collection of interviews that documents how people were...... -
Maria Sharapova and her tribute to Chernobyl
The Fabulous ForumOn her website, Maria Sharapova has posted a very personal message detailing her feelings about the 25-year anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, one that affected her parents directly, as well as how the recent tsunami-caused nuclear crisis... -
On this date in history: The Chernobyl disaster
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine had an explosion and a fire that released radioactive particles into the atmosphere where they spread over several other countries in what is acknowledged to be the worst nuclear...
Tags: Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Russia, Nuclear Power, ABC (tv network), Ukraine
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'Chernobyl Diaries'
The locale of one of the most infamous nuclear plant disasters in history becomes an extreme tourism site in this well-made chiller, as several people decide to visit the site ... and get too big a taste of the disaster's lingering results. Actor-...
Tags: Blu-ray Discs, Paranormal Activity (movie), Chernobyl Diaries (movie), DVDs, Jesse McCartney
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Mutant Butterflies Linked to Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
KTLA NewsFUKUSHIMA, Japan -- In the first sign that the Fukushima nuclear disaster may be changing life around it, scientists say they've found mutant butterflies. Some of the butterflies had abnormalities in their legs, antennae, and abdomens, and dents in their...Tags: Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Genes and Chromosomes, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Science and Technology
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List of films and release dates in summer 2012
May 4 The Avengers A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth. Written and directed by Joss Whedon. In Imax 3-D. Walt Disney...
Tags: Derick Martini, Mark Ruffalo, Kate Hudson, Matt O'Leary, Weddings
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