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[16 May 2010 | No Comment | 290 views]
Galaxy Quest

I’ve never had any interest in Star Trek, so you can treat this article as if it’s your grandparents reviewing the internet. HEY LOOK I’M THE 100,000th VISITOR I’M SO LUCKY ON THE WEB! Hit the jump for an unfunny review of a funny movie.

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[28 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 564 views]
Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino graces us with another one of his masterpieces, as he rewrites history in this fictional World War II movie – Inglourious Basterds. The movie encompasses all the elements that would make Quentin Tarantino fans out there proud. Excessive blood and violence. Check. Long witty dialogues. Check. Solid acting. Check. Sadly, Inglourious Basterds lost out in the race for Oscar glory to Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, which I thought the latter didn’t deserve the honours, but I’ll save that argument for a later review.
Set during World War …

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[12 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 3,877 views]
Crash

Crash is a 2005 American/German drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis.
Crash is about how the characters of different races and social status in the city of Los Angeles are linked together in a series of events that take place in the movie. The film showcases each character’s point of view, their background and how the other characters in the movie affect their role in society.

Randi Tan examines the dramatic conventions of the movie Crash.

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[2 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 272 views]
Facing the Giants

Facing the Giants is a film directed by Alex Kendrick whom also acted as the main character in the film, Grant Taylor. The film was released on September 29 2006, with the genre of Drama, Religion and Sports.
It is also rated PG as it contains football violence and topics like infertility and depression.
Find out more about the movie and watch the podcast by Amanda Loh.

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[2 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 199 views]
A Series of Unfortunate Events

The podcast you are about to see is extremely unpleasant.
If you wish to see a podcast about a happy little elf, I’m sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two.
However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children’s woeful steps.
My name is Rachel Yap, and it is my sad duty to document this podcast.