Posted on October 12th, 2008 by Olga Zapisek
Jason van Genderen (left) and Shane Emmett with Trop Fest trophies. Image courtesy of Sunweekly.com.au
Often, in our busy and chaotic lives, we do not stop to think about the small things or the people around us. We brush past everyone as if they were invisible to the eye, ignoring their problems because they do not [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2008 by Olga Zapisek
On December 8, 1980, four deafening shots rang out into the night of New York City’s streets, sending out a startling echo that would change the musical world forever. Music legend, John Lennon lay dead in the arms of his lover, Yoko Ono, as she wept with the world over the loss of the former [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Anne-Sophie Jahn
All the books by Philippe Claudel have an amazing capacity of baring human beings, with all the complexities, the paradoxes and the weaknesses they possess. His accurately written words strip each character layer by layer. From By a Slow River to Brodeck, Claudel’s novels treat themes such as murder, guilt, secret and suspicion objectively. He’s [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Anne-Sophie Jahn
Stone Village Pictures recently announced that they are developing a screen adaptation of The Master and Margarita, the Russian literature masterpiece by Mikhail Bulgakov. In charge of the project: Scott Steindorff, who also produced adaptations of The Human Stain and Love in the Time of Cholera.
A forbidden manuscript, an accursed poet, a controversial subject…It is [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Simon Lee
It must be hard for a band like Oasis to do something new. Most bands start to stumble on their third or fourth album, but this is the boys’ seventh and their still strutting along confidently. Dig Out Your Soul is pure rock and roll. Crunching guitars and solid bass that sends your DVDs flying [...]
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