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Book Review: Assume Nothing by Gar Anthony Haywood

Posted by Shik on January 10, 2012 at 9:02pm 1 Comment

By Shik

Joe Reddick is a highly temperamental man struggling to rebuild his life after losing his wife and kid in a murder incident at their home. Nine years after the incident the former cop having moved to Los Angeles has started his life a new. He is married and has a beautiful son. However the scars of his past will not let him be. He is obsessed with his family's safety and is determined to keep his family out of harm's way whatever the cost. This is because he feels guilty about his family's murder since he was not home at the time of the murder. Reddick feels that he should have been home to protect them. Reddick's fanatical obsession and temper threatens his new marriage and is about to get him into more trouble than he would have ever imagined.



A small coincidental…

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Nik Joseph

Asian Film Review: Finding Mr. Destiny

Posted by Nik Joseph on January 10, 2012 at 8:39pm 0 Comments

By Nik Joseph

It's hard to resist a pun when I'm reviewing a movie called "Finding Mr. Destiny." I'll resist. Really, I will resist…

I enjoy Korean films for their different take on comedy, their endearing romances and even their high melodrama—because they do it so well. Finding Mr. Destiny excels in all three area's, in a comedic story revolving around The Cyrano Agency—a dating service which helps people who can't find a date.



I didn't have high expectations of the them, but it's quite an enchanting movie, actually.

The cast really brought the story to life—and it never hurts that most of the cast are stunningly beautiful or handsome. I like…

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Sheila Kelly

Book Review: The Brood Chronicles, Book One: The English Legione by Dale Jackson

Posted by Sheila Kelly on January 8, 2012 at 9:23pm 1 Comment

"The Brood Chronicles" is a satirical fantasy series by Dale Jackson, which is available on Amazon Kindle.  The first book, "The English Legione", begins the story of a pansexual woman living in Georgia, who learns of her English heritage, as well as her birthright to an empire of fantastic beings known as British Woode Folk, or Broods.  It has some adult language and situations and is not really suitable for anyone under eighteen years of age or might be easily offended by crude humor.

The story follows Connor Adams, a twenty-eight year old pansexual woman who learns that she is the only child of Maida Vale Kedgeree, the deceased queen of the…

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Sudarshana Sinha

Holywood News: Film releases summer of 2012

Posted by Sudarshana Sinha on January 8, 2012 at 8:45pm 2 Comments

Above: Men in Black 3 promises to dominate the box office in 2012.



By Sudarshana Sinha



2012 promises gratification for sci-fi films and action buffs, with a little thrown in for the rest of us. Call it, the season of the sequel. Or prequel, in some cases.

Blame or praise the marketing engine as you will, these are the big ticket movies of summer. Also big this summer is the 3D action movie as more and more studios climb on the eye-pop bandwagon. Justanother dimension for film buffs? Here's our list of what promises to be box office champs in 2012:

1.Men in Black III -  A follow through sequel to Men in Black II which appeared almost a decade ago. With  more a less a similar cast this movie takes on time as well as aliens,…

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Movie Review: Classic horror films: Saw a real standout

Posted by Films & Books on December 30, 2011 at 6:00pm 0 Comments

The strange and horrible world of Saw

Anthony Pert

One of the more interesting horror films to be released in the past decade would be the original Saw film. While many are more familiar with the more recent sequels and the very disappointing final chapter, it was the original film which truly was a standout horror film.

There are quite a few elements that made Saw such an effective horror film. The ingenuity of the victims having to solve their way out of ingenious traps replaced the boring "stalk and slash" formula so many horror films have followed since the late 1970s. And of course, Jigsaw was truly one of the most original—and incredibly creepy—horror villains to appear in years. He was…

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Bollywood Film Industry: Shah Rukh Khan, the face of Indian cinema

Posted by Films & Books on December 29, 2011 at 5:00pm 0 Comments

Shah Rukh Khan: Bollywood heartthrob is more famous in India than Tom Cruise. 

Suhaimi Ramly

Last year I was invited to Mumbai by a family friend. During the traditional family dinner, where all the extended family members feasted at one big table, a member of the family asked whether I watched Bollywood films. "Of course," I said, "and I am a big fan of Shah Rukh Khan. He is as famous as Tom Cruise is in the US." I wanted to flatter them, but all I heard was nervous laughter. It was as if the people around the table felt a bit slighted.

Later on, my friend pulled me aside and told me, "In Mumbai, we say that Tom Cruise is the American Shah Rukh Khan."

Such is the phenomena of Shah Rukh Khan in contemporary Bollywood. He is the most famous, the most…

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To dub or subtitle? Which do you prefer?

Posted by Films & Books on December 20, 2011 at 5:30pm 0 Comments

Do you get a better sense of the filmmaker's true intentions with the actors' voices dubbed for foreign audiences or with subtitles?

By Praneet Dabral

Which is better for watching a foreign film: subtitles or dubbing? Well, the answer depends on the person to whom you are addressing the question. If it's someone educated, then most probably he will choose subtitles; if he's someone who can't read, then definitely he will prefer dubbing.

I was born and brought up in India where the literacy rate has thankfully jumped to 74 per cent. Close to 1.2 billion people reside in India, and I am sure as I am writing this article the figures are increasing. Millions of people in my country are illiterate, more than the population of many countries. These people…

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Asian Film Industry: Korean film industry has become big business

Posted by Films & Books on December 15, 2011 at 2:30pm 0 Comments

The multi-billion dollar Korean film industry spans North Korea as well as the South, encapsulating both countries. Only the movies from South Korea have succeeded in creating an impact internationally, however. North Korean films have not done so well globally.

View the trailer for The Mirrors, based on an idea from the South Korean film Into the Mirror.

The Korean industry has evolved over the decades and grown by two hundred to  three hundred percent  from what it was in the year 1993. It grew by more than 6.5 per cent in the year 2010 largely due to increases in ticket prices and the inclusion of 3D cinemas; the top-earning films at the Korean box-office were 3D movies, despite a dip in the number of times the average Korean went to the movies, from 3.15 times to 2.92. The market share of Korean movies is…

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Asian Film Industry: Why is Asian film such a success in North America?

Posted by Films & Books on December 15, 2011 at 2:00pm 0 Comments

 

By C Kyalo

Box office figures clearly show that Asian film is a huge success in the US. These films have consistently been the top-grossing foreign films in the country for a very long time. Recent figures indicate that Bollywood films easily earn over $100 million a year in the United States.

The films are quite obviously very popular amongst the Asian communities in big cities across the US and also in Canada, but the truth is, their popularity actually extends well beyond these obvious core markets and the Asian community.

Why have these films become so popular and why do they continue to grow in popularity in such a crowded and competitive movie market?

Actually there are many factors that have contributed to this popularity and top of the list…

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Actor News: Arnie's Last Stand starts filming

Posted by Films & Books on October 17, 2011 at 6:00pm 0 Comments

Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the screen after his stint as governator of California and his disgrace as a cheat in his marriage to Maria Shriver will be The Last Stand. Schwarzenegger's new film started production October 17, Lionsgate announced today. Korean action-suspense master Kim Jee-Woon directs Arnold's return to the screen on locations in New Mexico and Nevada. The script is by Andrew Knauer and Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Other cast include Zach Gilford, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander and Harry Dean Stanton.

Schwarzenegger stars as lawman Sheriff Owens in the sleepy border town of Sommerton Junction. He has serious guilt issues after a bungled operation with the LAPD left his partner crippled. Now, after escaping from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most…

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