MOVIE REVIEWS
B8
By Alan Samuel
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY February 1 - 15, 2016
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (PG) ***
Reborn!
D
ecadent rural fun comes your way in Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies. Fleshed out and inspired by notable British
classic scribe Jane Austen homage is paid to all things
British, proper and devilish in this snappy EOne Entertainment
release now gasping for live at countless Cineplex Odeon theatres
around B.C.
Marriage, freedom and martial arts will turn heads In This
elegantly shot film. When good standing parents, the Bennets, want
to wed their daughter prize catch Elizabeth has a thing or two to say
on the mattee - especially when the handsome Mr. Darcy comes into
the question.
On again, off again chemistry between Lily James and Sam Riley
heat things up when there not busy defending the realm from a
hoard of zombies.
On the loose and full if fun Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is
daffy yet highly entertaining. Even the opening credits give you a sense
that merry old England is in good hands with these impressionable
characters and the odd member of the dead springing back to life.
Beware your neighbour as this elitist community gets the scare of
their lives when an army of flesh eating bloodsuckers decide it’s
chow time.
In ravelling like an episode of Lifestyles of the a Rich and Famous this
film serves up lavish sets, great period costumes, high kicking women
who Bruce Lee has nothing on, snappy dialogue and impressive casting
with pent-up chemistry to burn. Save your strength of you like offbeat
spoofs as this goofy flick that plays itself seriously hits the mark.•
PLASTIC DISCOVERY
The modern plastics industry was born in the 1860s with
a contest in the United States to find a better billiard ball. A
Prize of $10,000 was put up for anyone who could find a cheap
replacement for ivory balls. Whose manufacture required the killing
of elephants for their tusks. The winner was an American inventor
named John Wesley Hyatt, who made ball from substance he
called Celluloid. In shirt time Celluloid came to be used for many
things – spectacle frames, babies’ rattles, knife handles, combs
and films, and even windshields for early automobiles.
Ooops! Cellophane is not made of plastic as is commonly
presumed. It is made from plant fiber, cellulose, which has been
shredded and aged. Cellophane was invented in 1908 by a Swiss
chemist named Jacques Brandenberger who was trying to make
a stain proof tablecloth but ended up with cellophane instead.
A Friendly Reminder. Plastic trash dumped into the sea kills
million of creatures each year. Plastic traps fish, mammals, turtles,
and birds in knotted entangles, causing death by starvation,
drowning, strangulation or ingestion. Some experts estimate that
plastic refuse kills more than 100,000 sea mammals and 2 million
seabirds annually. Plastic pollution poses a greater threat to these
animals than pesticides, oil spills and contaminated runoff from
the land.
WORD WATCH:
Lastiko : from the Spanish elastico, meaning ‘flexible’ but
without the ‘e.’
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