SXSW Eco 2015: Racing Extinction

Mass extinction is coming, and we're to blame

"...Louie Psihoyos says this about his new documentary Racing Extinction, he's talking about his carbon footprint. But those emissions..."

Oct. 7, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Resident Evil: Extinction

Milla Jovovich continues to fight zombies and the apocalypse.

"...to Pittsburgh's finest, the script work on Resident Evil: Extinction (courtesy of screenwriter and sometime director Paul W.S. Anderson)..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Optimus Prime finds a new pal in franchise addition Mark Wahlberg.

"...in a Michael Bay movie, specifically Transformers: Age of Extinction, his fourth and longest yet effort to give Hasbro's..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Escape from Extinction

The important issue of global eco collapse becomes a PR push for zoos

"...its release. Then again, most films aren’t Escape from Extinction, the first film produced directly by American Humane...."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Vortex Repertory Company's Last: An Extinction Comedy

The magic cast by the company of this devised show pulls laughs from the impending demise of the planet

"...The world premiere production of Last: An Extinction Comedy from director Rudy Ramirez and his fellow company..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

If We Allow Open Expression, Freedom Will Be Close to Extinction

"...security, freedom will be at the tipping point of extinction...."

June 6, 2006 Postmarks

Engineering Extinction Event

Why Texas needs more walking dinosaurs

Nov. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

23rd Street Market Faces Extinction

May 16, 2009 Postmarks

Geostorm

It's not just a storm, it's a ...

"...laugh-out-loud, goofball asteroid cowboys. Not so here, where planetary extinction is just a bombastic and badly executed background to..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

The final(?) nail in this action horror franchise

"...last known antidote of the former to stop the extinction of the human race. Attempting to thwart her efforts..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Inferno

Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world

"...to decode some ancient text and thwart a mass extinction event, familiarity breeds comfort. Ah yes, this is the..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ice Age: Collision Course

Latest entry of the series is overstuffed and meandering

"...gags, Ice Age: Collision Course is, hopefully, the series’ extinction-level event. Speaking of, that’s the hook on which the..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Moviegoers Assemble!

"...that nothing could protect the world quite like an extinction-level reset. Assisted by a pair of superpowered twins (Taylor-Johnson’s..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Here Comes the Boom

Kevin James plays a biology teacher who moonlights as a mixed martial-arts fighter; Salma Hayek is his love interest.

"...and arts programs could have been saved from impending extinction by simply not making this movie and donating the..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underworld: Awakening

When humans sniff out the existence of vampires and Lycans, all hell breaks loose.

"...and both species are now being hunted to near extinction. Selene attempts to flee with her hybrid lover, Michael,..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Daybreakers

The vampire community goes into crisis when humans have been hunted to near-extinction; Ethan Hawke plays a doctor working to create a blood substitute.

"...community is in crisis: With humans hunted to near extinction, there’s a serious food shortage, which is why hematologist..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Battle for Terra

An animated tale of a peace-loving race of creatures known as Terrians, who are invaded by alien humans.

"...tadpole-esque creatures known as the Terrians, who face imminent extinction at the hands of murderous aliens from beyond the..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marley & Me

Sweet and wise and often laugh-out-loud funny (just like Grogan's book), Marley & Me, starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, isn't just for dog people.

"...teary mawkishness of Old Yeller – Marley is into extinction-level household devastation, scandalous fecal shenanigans, and the terrorization of..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sharkwater

Rob Stewart, a marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety in this cautionary documentary about the eradication of the planet's sharks.

"...Rica, Guatemala, Taiwan) that have allowed a manmade mass extinction to occur on their watch while hiding behind unenforceable..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Honeydripper

John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.

"...world it symbolizes, he is on the verge of extinction and, worse, irrelevance. Honeydripper’s story isn’t anything you haven’t..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Battlefield Earth

"...to bring his people back from the edge of extinction. It's 3000 A.D. and humanity has been reduced to..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Up at the Villa

"...of the rich and fabulous who were stomped into extinction across Europe by Nazi jackboots. However, this being a..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Boxer

"...redundancy would doom movies like The Boxer to well-deserved extinction. Director Jim Sheridan, who has collaborated with writer Terry..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Far Off Place

"...a moral Mauser -- the wholesale slaughter and threatened extinction of Africa's great wildlife. Unfortunately, they all misfire. The..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Can Reviving Extinct Species Slow Climate Change?

SXSW panel explores the science of de-extinction

"...asian elephant, and gray wolf. “Most people think about de-extinction and they separate it from species preservation,” Lamm said...."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Madeline Duncan

Friends to the End (of the World)

Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler reunite in Greenland

"...hurtling to Earth. The only problem (other than the extinction-level event facing all life on Earth) is that he..."

Dec. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Humanity's scarring of Earth mapped out in graphic, terrifying detail

"...of any polemical preaching. These human-induced tipping points include extinction (the extermination of animal species resulting from human activity);..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jurassic Park III

"...their personal mission the safeguarding of dinosaurs against another extinction. Spielberg only served as the executive producer on this..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Biotech Startup Colossal Wants to Bring Back Lost Species

A moonshot for the mammoth (and that's just the start)

"...a lot of questions asking why we should embrace de-extinction at all...."

March 11, 2022 Features Feature by Tom Cheredar

Martin Luecke's "Campaign to Save Humanity"

Independent eyes Congressional District 25

"...to make people aware of the real danger: planetary extinction.” For a brief interview at Hank’s cafe in his..."

June 12, 2018 News Post by Michael King

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