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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Movie Review: Anthology Horror The ABCs of Death Proves Most ...
The horror anthology genre seems to be making a bit of a comeback. The latest example is The ABCs of Death, a film jam-packed with filmmakers ? 26 of them, one for each letter of the alphabet ? each of whom contribute short skits inspired by a word beginning with a letter of the alphabet. Thus we get ?A is for Apocalypse? and ?B is for Bigfoot,? and so. The results are scattered and uneven, but that?s not a knock. In fact, one of the reasons why the anthology format seems to work so well with horror films is that so often horror ideas can?t hold up to the demands of a full feature-length narrative storyline. In this film, we only need ideas that can hold up for three minutes or so. Some of them do, but when they don?t, you know you won?t have to suffer for too long.
With filmmakers hailing from around the globe, The ABCs of Death is not only a showcase a great variety of talent, but also a variety of approaches to telling visual stories. We get the more conventional tales: gory murders, spooky bedtime stories, and sick torture sequences. But the best segments in the film are the off-beat tales. British filmmaker Thomas Malling delivers the most robust and ridiculous segment with an odd battle between a dog-costumed fighter polite and a bosomed feline vixen who turns into a vicious Nazi torturer. Marcel Sarmiento?s ?D is for Dogfight? owes much to Guy Richie in terms of style, but it is a well-executed and tense showdown (with a twist) between a boxer and a vicious dog. And ?F is for Fart? is a surreal, fetish fantasy that will test your sense of humor with its bizarre, resulting and strangely sensitive story about a girl?s crush on her female teacher.
Often gross, vulgar, and stomach-churning, The ABCs of Death will definitely appeal to a niche, and probably young and male, audience ? hence its suitable programing as a midnight feature. But for fans of the genre and those who are tired of the same old drab approaches to film that fill up the cinema?s primetime slots, The ABCs of Death definitely won?t bore.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Razan Al Mubarak will head jury for Abu Dhabi International ...
Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in the Western Region, the directorate of the Abu Dhabi International Environmental Festival has chosen Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, the Secretary General of Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) as a head of the jury for the official films competition.
In a statement, Razan Al Mubarak said that cinema has a very important role to play in dealing with the environmental challenges facing our region, especially that awareness programs about environmental threats are not only the responsibility of governmental authorities alone but of the civil society organisation, and media.
She pointed to the EAD's keenness to support all awareness initiatives which represent an integral part of its efforts aiming to preserve the environment, affirming that spreading awareness is an important element that enable to build the society. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Today on New Scientist: 6 March 2013
Don't let US knee-jerk secrecy slow down space flight
Government red tape threatens to deprive the fledgling space-flight community of important technical insights
Salty food exacerbates multiple sclerosis in mice
If a high-salt diet also aggravates autoimmune diseases in humans, the discovery may lead to new ways to control conditions such as psoriasis
Astrophile: Glistening cloud acts as cosmic centimetre
Eclipsing stars have yielded the best measurement yet of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, the first rung on the cosmic distance ladder
Fire destroys the City of Science in Naples, Italy
Born to revive an old industrial site and to spread scientific culture in Italy, the City of Science may have been destroyed by Italian Camorra
Need to get fit? Try running from zombies
The undead could soon be helping the living for the British National Health Service if an app in development for doctors takes off
Old dog tricks: The survival of the friendliest
The wolves bold enough to approach humans and eat our scraps evolved into dogs - did we too "self-domesticate", asks evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare
Shy Higgs boson continues to vex particle hunters
The latest results from CERN still don't say whether the boson discovered there is the Higgs predicted by theory, or something more surprising
The father of all men is 340,000 years old
We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years ? but one African American man has broken the mould
Trafficking now the greatest threat to wild apes
Tourist entertainment and private collectors are now a greater threat to wild apes than deforestation and bushmeat poachers
Sucking salamander uses jaw power to bend prey
Watch a giant salamander engulf a roach, showing how amphibian jaws evolved the ability to suck
Solve four big problems to get people to Mars by 2018
Inspiration Mars has identified four challenges standing between them and the Red Planet - whatever happens, the effort will aid future deep space missions
Who needs sex? Six animals that cloned alone
A growing number of animals are turning out not to have had a father. Meet some of our favourites
Physics crunch: The dark void at cosmology's heart
Our established picture of the universe is supremely successful - maybe because most of it is completely made up, says Stephen Battersby
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Monday, March 4, 2013
How To Turn Fruits And Vegetables Into a Delicious Musical Instrument
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Bomb blast in Karachi kills 38, wounds dozens
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Pakistanis check the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, March 3.
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By Fakhar Rehman and Craig Giammona, NBC News
An explosion rocked a Shiite section of Pakistan's largest city Sunday, killing at least 38 people and wounding dozens, according to officials and local television reports.
Two-bomb laden vehicles exploded in a residential area of Karachi and local officials believe more victims may be trapped in the rubble.
Mohsin Raza / Reuters
Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
Officials earlier said at least 25 were dead, while the local television channel put the death toll at 38, citing police sources.
The Associated Press said the blast occurred outside a Shiite Mosque as people were leaving evening prayers.
Azhar Iqbal, a local police official, told the AP that a bomb appeared to have been rigged to a motorcycle and that the damage indicated there could have been additional explosives at the scene. Iqbal said several nearby buildings caught on fire. Published reports have indicated women and children were among the dead.
Police in Karachi told Reuters a suicide bomber may have been responsible for the attack.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni militants linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban have targeted Shiites in the past.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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