Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis called this film by Chris Weitz "an honorable work" that was "hampered by its fealty to the book and its madly rushed pace, which forces you to dash through the story like Lord Asriel" (Lyra's uncle, an explorer played by Daniel Craig).
Later, during the antitrust trials, Microsoft attempted to prove the inseparability of Windows and Internet Explorer by playing a video for the judge.
It was a rainy night in January and the Explorers were playing Massachusetts.
Hawke, who was raised in New Jersey, began acting while in high school and at age 15 made his film debut in Explorers (1985), playing a teenager who builds a spaceship.
Upstairs there is the billiard table on which the returning explorer once played, with the names of all those who have visited written in chalk underneath.
A frozen corpse, upside down, legs sticking out of the ice at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a burned-out warehouse, remains there for weeks, until LeDuff hears about it via an "urban explorer" who was playing hockey in the building's basement, and splashes the story across the front page.
They had figured out how to open Internet Explorer and were playing a game on Disney's Web site.
However, the setting has been changed from an ancient temple to the Scottish forest, and instead of playing an explorer being chased by evil monkeys, you take control of Brave's protagonist Merida as she flees from the "demon bear" Mordu.
Long in the making, Mountains of the Moon (1990) was a beautifully filmed adaptation of William Harrison's mammoth novel about British explorer Sir Richard Burton (played by Patrick Bergin).
Scholars are still divided as to whether Pike was complicit in Wilkinson's schemes, and a yearlong exhibit on the explorer at El Pueblo History Museum plays on the ambiguities.
