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Jan - Feb 2010
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Avatar
(2009, 162 minutes, Rated PG-13)
Carrot and stick — but there’s no carrot actually!
Set more than a hundred and fifty years in the future, a human company called RDA is conducting an exploration in planet Pandora for a very high-valued substance, the Unobtonium that costs $20M per kilo. The RDA has its own group of security headed by Colonel Quaritch, and a research team of scientists headed by Dr. Grace Augustine.
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Nov - Dec 2009
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Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story
(2009, 123 minutes, Rated R)
There is no metaphor more fitting than love to get us a feel for our engagement with a system’s berserk display of passion for profit accumulation. King of shock docus, Michael Moore, once again, points a wrathful finger on the usual suspects who have enslaved and enchained our hearts and minds to a cruel relationship that neither fungible contracts nor boastings of recovery from Wall Street can assuage.
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July - Aug 2009
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Or, Anticipating the Revenge of the Balikbayan Cargo Cult (Part 2)
A Review of MARISOL (2009)—a film directed by Hella Wenders; cinematography by Merle Jothe; produced by Barbara Mutschler and Florian Gerstenberg ; German Film and Television School, Berlin, Germany. Part 1 of this review was published in a previous issue of Education for Development Magazine (Vol. 8, No. 2).
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Mar - Apr 2009
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Or, Anticipating the Revenge of the Balikbayan Cargo Cult (Part 1)
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May - June 2009
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The unbelievable trajectory of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire in the universe of film awards has aroused endorsement and loathing for the film in equal measure. Poverty porn/hymn to hope; slum tourism/no-bull honesty; cliché-ridden bilge/heart-warming tribute - contending adjectives multiply with every review.
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