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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY December 1 - 15, 2018
By Alan Samuel
Border. (PG) ***
Snuffed Out!
Security comes of age in Border.
Again, Sweden shows its uncanny ability
to pull off a totally fresh and unique
film brought to B.C. by Mongrel Media.
Unsettling, imaginative, creative and with
a touch of realism sums up this savvy and
slick bit of filmmaking whose odd nature
makes it special, Catch Border at the
International Village Cinemas.
Homeland security or whatever
the Canadian security equivalent is called
could well learn a lot from ace order
specialist Tina. Don’t let looks fool you
once Eva Melander locks eyes on you.
Or is that her nostrils as the odd looking
lady seems to have more in common with
well-trained snoop sniffer dogs than your
average worker.
Let’s just say Tina is the first line of
defense when those potentially criminally
inclined interlopers enter her section.
Well respected by her law enforcement
colleague’s heaven help anyone that tries
to pass into the region closeting bad
things. Take-downs by unsuspecting bad
peoples are handled decisively as director
Ali Agassi pulls off a smart and stylish little
thriller. Bolstered by truly interesting if not
somewhat grotesque characters. Made
in Swedish with English subtitles Border
is a small wonder well worth making fan
effort to see. Chinese CEOs of High
tech government enshrouded cell phone
behemoths take note.
‘MMK’ wins in first Asian
Academy Creative Awards
ABS-CBN’s
longest-running
drama anthology “Maalaala Mo Kaya
(MMK)” made history after winning
Best Single Drama/Telemovie at the
inaugural Asian Academy Creative
Awards in Singapore on Thursday,
December 6.
The show’s winning entry is
“Kotse-Kotsehan (Toy Car),” a special
two-part episode of “MMK” which
depicted the two perspectives of a
mother’s love for her children, and
topbilled by award-winning actress
Angel Locsin and Dimples Romana.
“MMK” business unit head Roda
dela Cerna accepted the award which
she shared with the “two mothers who
entrusted their life stories to MMK.”
She also thanked the men and
women behind the multi-awarded
drama anthology.
The Asian Academy Creative
Awards is being held at the 2018
Singapore Media Festival (SMF) and
was created to “celebrate the best of
Asian storytelling” and aims “to serve
the creative industries as the pinnacle
of their achievement in content
creation and media production.”
Aside from the Asian Academy
Creative Awards, “MMK” also won
the Household Favorite award and
the Anak TV Seal Awardee 2018 at
the Anak TV Seal Awards on Friday
(December 7). (abs-cbn)
TEST No. 2: Art & Culture
1. Who wrote the classic self-help book The
Power of Positive Thinking?
a. Norman Vincent Peale
b. Dale Carnegie
2. The three tallest religious statues in the
world all depict Buddha.
a. True
b.
False
3.
What language gave us the word bungalow for a one-storey
house?
a.
Bahasa
b.
Swahili
c.
Bengali
d.
Hawaiian
4.
The minimalist credo “Less is more” was popularized by what
influential art school and movement?
Dada
a.
b.
Cubism
c.
De Stijl
d.
Bauhaus
5.
Whose Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 is the most expensive
painting by a female artist?
Georgina O’Keeffe
a.
b.
Rosa Bonheur
c.
Frida Kahlo
d.
Mary Cassatt
6.
What 4-word idiom derives from the Viking practice of slicing the
face of anyone who refused to pay taxes?
What ‘fully booked’ institution is located at 101 Independence
7.
Avenue, Washington, D.C.?
What country is home to the famous Yanshui Beehive Fireworks
8.
Festival, where getting hit by a rocket is considered good luck?
What mythical character sprinkles magic stardust in children’s
9.
eyes to send them to sleep and give them sweet dreams?
What’s the title of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photograph that
10.
captured a sailor kissing an unsuspecting woman in white on August 14,
1945?
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