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Welcome to Random Roles , wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about. The actor: Brian Dennehy has played everyone from an alien invested in eternal life to a literal rat. In his over 40 years on-screen, he’s become known for his no-bullshit delivery, bulldog physique, and his ability to play both loving fathers and sadistic small-town cops. His latest is a voice-over gig in The Song Of Sway Lake, a Rory Culkin vehicle that’s currently in theaters and on demand. The A.V. Club talked to Dennehy about that role, as well as a number of others—both beloved and forgotten. The Song Of Sway Lake (2018)—“Hal Sway” Brian Dennehy: I’ll tell ya, I think it’s a sweet picture. It’s beautifully photographed. It has a wonderful, kind of medium-slow rhythm to it, which I like very much. It certainly catches the … [Read more...] about Brian Dennehy on DiCaprio,

In an first-of-its-kind victory, a team of biologists has figured out how to clear ponds of the lethal chytrid fungus that’s decimating amphibian populations worldwide. (Spoiler: It’s pretty damn intense). As reported this week in Biology Letters, biologists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and elsewhere have eliminated the deadly fungus from four out of five mountain ponds located on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The ponds are home to the rare Mallorca midwife toad (Alytes muletensis), which, for the first time in years, seems like it may have a future. Advertisement “This study represents a major breakthrough in the fight against this highly-destructive pathogen; for the first time we have managed to rid wild individuals of infection for a continued period,” biologist Trenton Garner of the ZSL said in a statement. The effort to eliminate the chytrid pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd)—which eats its way into the host … [Read more...] about Biologists Found a Crazy Solution to That Deadly Amphibian Fungus

Its critical reputation may not improve any with the passing of time, but the fact remains that Jurassic World is a pretty entertaining movie, especially on the big screen, where a fight between a T-Rex and a genetically enhanced super-dino (sorry, “Indominus Rex”) belongs. Dumb as hell, yes, but entertaining. From the I-respect-you look that passes between Chris Pratt’s dino trainer and a velociraptor (right before the latter gets blown up by a damn grenade launcher) to the justly derided running-in-high-heels choice, numerous aspects of the film scream, “We didn’t necessarily think this through all the way, but check it out—look at that big-ass water dinosaur! Awesome, right?” Still, movies should be addressed on their own terms, which means Jurassic World want us to take its plot seriously. In other words, no throwing your hands in the air and saying, “Whatever, it’s a movie, it doesn’t have to make sense.” And taking … [Read more...] about Here’s compelling evidence the dinosaur escape of

Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it's Microsoft—not Google—that's best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here's why. Advertisement It's common for writers to trot out the Google/Apple binary. It's not entirely invalid: Yes, following spectacular success with the iPhone and the App Store, Apple has let its online ambitions—Mobile Me and the like—whither. And Google, inexperienced in hardware and consumer software as it may be, is an internet company, so you'd expect it to be ahead of the curve when it comes to, well, using the internet. But consider Microsoft, the lumbering giant, the sprawling monster. This is a company with more experience online than the other two companies combined; which could, if it wanted to, brings peoples lives—their media, their documents, their photos, their everything—online in a way that its competitors only dream of. The Sacrificial Kin I didn't give the Kin, Microsoft's … [Read more...] about How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft’s Plan for Us All