Goltz–Gorlin (focal dermal hypoplasia) and the microphthalmia with linear skin defects (MLS) syndrome: no evidence of genetic overlap European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication, March 11, 2009. doi:10.1038/ejhg.2009.40 Authors: May-Britt Harmsen, Silvia Azzarello-Burri, M Ma...

From distinguished presenter to sleazy stripper? Jessica Biel was last seen looking all gorgeous and glamorous on the Academy Awards, wearing a lovely gown as she recapped the technical awards show that she hosted. Next time you see her on the small screen, she'll be taking off her clothes. Timothy ...

Background: The sustainability of healthcare systems worldwide is threatened by a growing demand for services and expensive innovative technologies. Decision makers struggle in this environment to set priorities appropriately, particularly because they lack consensus about which values should guide ...

Prepare to be bludgeoned. Watchmen is sledgehammer entertainment, an action epic with tremendous production values that acknowledges good and evil but is much more interested in things that go boom. As director Zack Snyder amply demonstrated in his previous adaptations of other people's strikingly o...

In this week's edition of Indie Roundup, we look back on a busy week for acquisitions, upcoming film awards, and two fests. Deals. The Garden , nominated this year for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, was picked up by Oscilloscope and will be released to theaters in the spring and on DVD this ...

It can be frustrating to hear great buzz about a new film and then realize that you have to wait weeks, months, or even years, to see it yourself. Why not transform that frustration into satisfaction by watching the filmmaker's earlier work? That was my thought as I checked SnagFilms to see what tit...

Subtitle of the Week: "My kung fu skills aren't too bad, eh?" -- Donnie Yen in Ip Man. This week's edition of Asian Cinema Scene includes capsule reviews of films that were recently released on DVD in Asia. Departures Takes Off: Yojiro Takita's drama Departures , the Academy Award winner for Best Fo...

New technologies often lead directly to the death of old technologies, and that's what happened with VHS. It changed home viewing habits forever, and then itself was killed off by DVD. It was a slow death that finally ended last fall, when the last major supplier of VHS tapes quit the business. That...

Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for Hunger , the intense drama from prize-winning British artist turned director Steve McQueen. Michael Fassbender stars as Bobby Sands, a controversial IRA member who was imprisoned in the infamous H-block of Belfast's Maze Prison. Sands made head...

In the animal kingdom, is it better to be a fish or a dog? Ellen DeGeneres played the irritably memorably cheerful, memory-deficient Dory in Pixar's Finding Nemo -- "When life gets you down do you wanna know what you've gotta do? ... Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimmi...