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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY November 1 - 15, 2018
By Alan Samuel
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (PG)***
Trapped!
Danger lurks behind just about every door in Sony’s release
of The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Sure this film is not as devastating
as the original Swedish classic penned by Stieg Larsson that set
the literary world ablaze but still this new version packs quite the
wallop. Prepare to get turned on by one gutsy albeit altruistic lady
at Landmark Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment halls around
B.C.
Leaving all that stuffy royal nonsense behind consummate
thespian Claire Foy proves she can dish out the action mode as
good as anyone. Cast as hacker extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander the
tattooed one learns the hard way that lots of nastiness permeates
the internet.
Stakes are sky high when some very powerful internet
programming involving the defense of the free world somehow
goes astray. Hot on the trail is Lisbeth and her altruistic reporter
friend Mikael Blomkvist suitably portrayed by Sverrir Gudnason.
Together the pair wind up in a power play involving highly motivated
criminals who will stop at nothing to achieve their world domination
dream. And what strange bedfellows these criminals keep.
Surprising twists and turns and a full value heroine (?)
not above breaking the law keeps this high flying thriller directed by
Fede Alvarez intriguing from start to finish for almost two hours.
Just the right pacing and enough vengeful mayhem to make hearts
pump faster turn this well-made thriller into good wintry fare.
Test No. 5: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1. Which space object survives the fall
through the atmosphere and lands on Earth?
a. Meteorite
b. Meteoroid
2. It is the father’s gene that decides whether
the baby is a boy or a girl.
a.
True
b.
False
3.
Seborrhoeic dermatitis is better known as what?
a.
Hives
b.
Psoriasis
c.
Dandruff
d.
Acne
4.
What is measured on the Gay-Lussac scale?
a.
Alcohol strength
b.
Electric current
c.
Cloud thickness
d.
Wind speed
5.
Which comes next: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, _____?
a.
Genus
b.
Family
c.
Species
d.
Order
6.
The crystal structure of jadarite, a mineral discovered in 2006,
has almost the same checmical composition as what famous fictional
object?
The name of what mental disorder derives from the Greek for
7.
“without appetite”?
What elementary particle has 6 “flavors” or types : up, down,
8.
strange, charm, top, and bottom?
What die Edwin Land invent in 1947 because of his daughter’s
9.
wish for ‘snappy’ results?
What term describes an erroneous suggestion or replacement
10.
by a spellchecker, auto-correct program or smartphone predictive text
feature, such as when ‘socialite’ is charged to a ‘socialist’?
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