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At the end of the 2005 film "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith," the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), desperate for the power to save his wife from a destined death-by-childbirth, had fully given over to the dark side of the Force. He had pledged his allegiance to the fascist Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) and was determined to become his evil acolyte under the name Darth Vader. This was devastating to Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), who had known Anakin since he was a child and who spent many years training him to be a benevolent member of the Jedi Order. The two confronted one another on a molten world poxy with volcanos called Mustafar, and a lightsaber fight -- a very, very long lightsaber fight -- ensued.

The fight ended when Obi-Wan had the high ground and cut off Anakin's arms and legs (!). He was left to...

New York, June 19 (Ians) Oral administration of a commercially available probiotic bacterial strain was found to improve dry eye disease in a mice model, according to researchers.

Dry eye is a common condition in which tears produced by the eye can’t keep the eye adequately lubricated.

It can cause eye stinging and burning, inflammation, blurry vision and light sensitivity. Extreme cases can result in damage to the eye’s surface if left untreated.

The most common treatments involve the application of eye drops, gels or ointment. This new, unconventional treatment involves bacteria in the intestinal tract.

“The ‘friendly’ bacteria that live in the human gastrointestinal tract have been linked to health and protection against disease in many parts of the body, including the gut, brain and lung,” said Laura Schaefer, from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, US.

“It’s therefore not surprising that the gut microbiome also has effects on our eyes,...

Having issued definitive collector’s editions of a number of high-profile horror classics of the ’80s and ’90s, Scream Factory often turns to smaller and more obscure titles to remind fans of some of the gems that once lined video store shelves. Lately they’ve been killing it with HD releases of Charles Band’s old Empire Pictures titles, several of which are appearing on home video for the first time since VHS (like their recent release of Ghost Town, for example). While both Cellar Dweller and Catacombs got a DVD release in 2013 as part of an “All Night Horror Marathon” four-film collection (the DVD debut of both movies), this new double feature Blu-ray is the first time either can be seen in high-def.

After a mostly unnecessary prologue that features Jeffrey Combs (presumably so that the movie can prominently bill a genre star as part of its cast...