New on DVD
Discussing the BBC series Planet Earth without resorting to some form of hyperbole is a fairly impossible task. To do anything less would seem to diminish somehow the true scope of its overwhelming achievement. But to oversell it also seems to be a disservice as this is at heart another nature documentary, albeit one of singular beauty. The best description necessitates the borrowing of a phrase from Douglas Adams. Planet Earth could be, when all is said and done, nothing less than the last chance to see the wonders of the natural world (animal, vegetable, and mineral) before they are irrevocably changed or gone.
Planet Earth is for sale as a 5-disc DVD set by itself or as part of the quite remarkable BBC Natural History Collection. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.
a friend at work watched this and told me about this really cool fungus in the jungle that somehow infects the brains of insects, brainwashes them into moving to the very tops of the trees and then dying of heat from the sun or something…anyway, the main point is: how long before they figure out a way to weaponize it?