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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY August 1 - 20, 2017
Annabelle: Creation (PG) ****
By Alan Samuel
Bewitched!
Toys are a fixation of youth. In the best Chucky tradition
Annabelle: Creation connects. Looks like the folks at
Warner Brothers made the right choice by green lighting
the not so child friendly horrific follow-up to the smash
first edition triumph. See bad things happen to all that
comes Annabelle’s way at Cineplex theatres across B.C.
Better timing would have seen this nearly two-
hour spectacle brought out at Halloween. Still the chills
are present as we see the danger faced by a group of
female orphans holed up in A somewhat haunted house.
Through a series of flashbacks, we learn the deep dark
secrets of a religious couple who suffer a loss.
Inside their home things of the past are best left
alone. Kids being kids a very dark secret gets unlocked
spelling big-time trouble for the girls. To make a good
horror movie or thriller you need convincing actors and
a chilly atmosphere. Unexpected events can also lead to
a rise. Well Annabelle: Creation scores the Triactor as all
these elements are present.
Good on director David F. Sandberg and producer
extraordinaire James Wan (Saw). For never giving
too much away as the use of music and subtleties to
convince observers of bad things on route are particular
and to the point. On screen talent including James Bond
beauty Stephanie Sigman (SPECTRE) and child stars in
the making Lulu Wilson and Tabitha Bateman give lots
of soul to the gut-wrenching wicked things about to get
under your skin.
FLASH FACT
Lightning is not all destructive power – it helps plants to grow. A
single flash of lightning can discharge enough electrical energy to
make oxygen and nitrogen gases in the air combine. The union
produces nitric oxide, which dissolves in rainwater and reaches
the ground as nitic acid. All growing plants need nitrogen, but
few can obtain it directly from the air. At least part of their supply
is provided by lightning’s electro chemical action. Incidentally, to
speak of ‘a stroke of lightning’ is inaccurate. Lightning is really a
succession of strokes, and often the most powerful move not from
cloud to ground, but the other wat: the so-called return stroke.
PINOY First. The country’s first weather news report appeared in
‘El Diario De Manila’ in September 1865. It featured the storm
tracking observations of Fr. Francisco Colina, a Jesuit science
teacher at Ateneo.
Q. Why are weather vanes often topped with the figure of a
rooster?
A. In the middle of the 9th century, the Vatican decreed that every
church steeple should display the image of a cock (or rooster).
This cock was to symbolize St. Peter’s denial of Christ three times
before the cock crowed twice. Since church steeples were already
adorned with weather vanes, the cock was placed on top od these,
thus establishing the tradition.
WORD WATCH
Keraunophobia (kir’on – oh-fow’bia): morbid fear of lightning and
thunder.
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