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Single-handedly this film may have inspired a whole young generation to fall back in love with movies and with movie making much in the same way that the French New Wavers made filmmaking fun, sexy and a bit punk back in the 60s. Narrative structure fascinates writer-director Quentin Tarantino. In some ways the telling of the story is more important than the story itself. For him, going from point A to point B is not only too simple but it's simply not fun - like having sex without foreplay. Tarantino's solution is to chop up the narrative and rearrange the pieces in unexpected ways so that climaxes and reveals occur in unlikely places. He also takes delight in having his characters tell jokes and stories as another means of playing with our expectations about narrative structure.

AVP is set in the present day and uses earth as the setting for this showdown of space creatures. Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henricksen) heads a mega-corporation at the forefront of robotics. (Trivia note: Henricksen played the android Bishop in Aliens, and this film suggests that the robot was designed and named after Weyland.) Weyland is sick and his vast wealth cant change the fact hes going to die. But he decides that if he is going to die soon, he wants to be remembered for something. So he uses his fortune to finance an expedition to Antarctica where his satellites have taken note of a huge underground temple shaped like a pyramid. He gets Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan) to lead the expedition and then hires a crew of specialists to tag along and document the find. But what they find when they arrive is a nest of aliens, including a massive queen, and a group of predators who may be hunting them or the aliens.

Has new life been breathed into the proposal to build a new downtown library? Earlier this week, the San Diego Unified school board agreed to put $20 million toward a proposal to build a school-library combo downtown.

My & time in law school, after two overseas tours and spending four out of five years out of the country, & was also when I began to realize just how much modern America had let big government intrude into people's lives with incentives and penalties all hinging on acceptance of one family & model as being the only acceptable family unit. &

How will the City of San Diego be affected by the state budget cuts? Why did the City Council vote in favor of SDG&E's Emergency Power Shut-Off Plan? We speak to City Council President Ben Hueso about the budget cuts, SDG&E's controversial plan, and reducing local water consumption.

Horror remakes and sequels are still all the rage these days. The latest is

Lebanese-American artist Doris Battar is exhibiting her photographs of life in the Middle East taken over the last two years. Host Gloria Penner talks to the artist about her work.

New reports from the Pew Hispanic Center conclude that low-income Latino students are the most segregated, ill-served group in the country's public high schools. The reports detail high school conditions for Hispanic students in the United States.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a coup in 1999. Now, Musharraf faces increasing pressure to step down after sacking the country's top judge. Sharif is among those who wants Musharraf to resign, and says he is willing to return to join forces against Musharraf, even if it means going to jail.

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