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Film Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

*SPOILER ALERT*

’Rise of the Planet of the Apes'is a film that I recommend watching, it is a heart warming tale with undercurrents showing the role human kind plays on the treatment of animals. Chimpanzees in a scientist’s laboratory are being tested on with drugs; these drugs will be used to help human beings and potentially cure alzheimer’s disease. The chimps are cared for to a certain level but they are defiantly not treated humanely.

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Out of this world

You probably know more Universal Studios programmes than you realise. In fact, I even knew more Universal Studios programmes than I realised and I’m the world’s biggest fans of their shows! Looking back over a list of TV shows made inside those famous walls over the last forty years, it reads like a countdown of the Top 20 series ever. Everything from 80s classics such as ’The A-Team’and ’Knight Rider’to early sci-fi trailblazers like ’The Six Million Dollar Man’and the original ’Bionic Woman’. Even Universal’s modern, and perhaps less revered shows, have an important place in TV history as far as I’m concerned; though I might be concerned a touch biased!

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Addiction or Obsession: call it what you like.

Addiction is a word that is known to have a negative connotation. People tend to forget that being addicted to something does not need to have a connection with drugs or some other physically damaging things. Addiction can be positive. Or how best do you describe following your favourite television shows or series. I was addicted to Heroes and I did not get high on it. Maybe obsession is a better word here but the central fact remains that Heroes More

A Starring Role?

I would love to go back to the Universal Studios centre in Los Angeles. There was so much to see and do that I think it requires multiple visits to be satisfied. Los Angeles is an iconic American city, with so many attractions and places to visit, but Universal Studios is one of the real highlights.

My first visit to Los Angeles and Universal Studios was paid for by english teaching jobs in london. There is plenty of demand More

House, but in different roles…

He’s a doctor. He’s moody, he’s unkind, he’s mean-spirited, he’s a massive scrooge, he doesn’t smile, he laughs at other people and never with them. And last but by no means least, he always thinks he’s right.

You don’t need to have seen House more than once than to know that this is what we are talking about.

I love House. I love everything about that show. And watching four episodes back to back last night I couldn’t help but More

Is there anything that Hugh Laurie CAN’T do?

If you ask me, Hugh Laurie has it all worked out. I mean, he’s an actor, he does a brilliant US accent (that even my American friend was bewildered by), and on top of all this:

1) Is the kind of person who is like a dad-next-door kind of a dude. He might stand out because of this, but is that bad thing? I think not. In an ages of Hollywood hopefuls, this man – ordinary looking and a bit More

Battlestar Galactica: My first boxset addiction.

I have for a long time been highly praising of most programmes that our cousins in America produce. I spent a long time refusing to accept that they could ever produce anything that could match the level of sophistication in entertainment we produce in Britain. Whilst greats such as 24 and Lost were hooking all my friends I was still only committing myself to Doctor Who once a week.

My first introduction to the American series box set was when More

House: Grumpy Or Genius?

No matter where I go online, I keep hearing the very same thing: “House is a grumpy old fool” or “House is the most miserable doctor on the face of this Earth”. Now, you may have a point there, but in his situation who wouldn’t be? Every single day, without fail, House gets up and faces a new medical problem which nobody else in the world has to deal with. Can you imagine having that kind of pressure every single More

Adama’s Apple

Universal is a studio that consistently produces more output then any other major Hollywood studio I know. However like every other major Hollowood studio I know they also have a zillion stars
who have had cheap cosmetic surgery. There is one actor I would like to honour beyond all others and congratulate for not giving into the demands to conform: Edward James Olmos. Just take one look at his face and there you see a man who clearly doesn’t More

Mad(ison Avenue Advert.) Men

To the reality of where advertising truly began, the essence of it has been lost into the endless and irritating world of email marketing - otherwise known as spam. There are few groups that still stay persistent with ’pull strategy'rather than ’push strategy'- push can generally be defined as a strategy that will literally push the consumers into the markets whether they like it or not. The pull strategy will attract consumers to showrooms and retail shops through clever advertising More