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[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 257 views]
Otto the terrible

Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-born American film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel. In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of …

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[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 438 views]
The Groundbreaking Director Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg is a British film director known for breaking the conventions of editing and his ability to use atmosphere well, Roeg stretched the boundaries of what could be done with film.
He is famed for stringing together disjointed stories in which everything was semi-coherent until the very end, where a crucial piece of information was given to help make sense of the story. He has a foreboding sense of atmosphere that is still influencing the directors of today, and his original approach to editing resulted in some of the …

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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 | 176 views]
28 Days Later

28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic film starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson and Christopher Eccleston, and is directed by Danny Boyle. Yes. Danny Boyle – the man who also directed the award winning Slumdog Millionaire. 1Now, returning to 28 Days Later. The story opens with a group of animal rights activists breaking into a primate research facility to free the caged chimps. Unfortunately to them, the chimps are infected with a virus, known as RAGE. Of course, the virus spreads around and all hell breaks loose.
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[2 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 119 views]
Children of Men

“Children of Men” is a British science fiction film based loosely on the novel, of the exact same name, by Phyllis Dorothy James. Co-written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, the film includes several acting heavy weights like Clive Owen, Michael Caine, and Julianne Moore.
Set in the year 2027, in a world of chaos, women of the world have mysteriously gone infertile and there hasn’t been a single childbirth for 18 years. A former activist, Theo Faron, played by Clive Owen, agrees to escort a miraculously pregnant refugee to …