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Katherine BettanySaving...

  • Medicine (MBBS & BSc 6YFT)
  • Undergraduate

Author of 23 articles since 03/11/2010

Last login: 19/11/2012

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16th
May 2013

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Adapted from the novel of the same name, this Mira Nair film which opened at the Venice Film Festival last year tells the story of Changez (Ahmed), an American educated ...
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1st
February 2013

FDR gets some

It is sometime in June 1939, at Franklin D Roosevelt’s (Murray) private estate, upstate New York. Europe is on the brink of war, and King George V (West) and Queen ...
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7th
December 2012

Santa Claus won’t make you happy, but these films will...

1.) The Sound of Music Julie Andrews plays a nun turned governess for a bunch of super cute Austrian  children and their super hot father (Christopher Plummer – just me?) Set ...
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23rd
November 2012

Twilight sucks...and not in the good way

The Twilight Saga comes to a much needed close with its final instalment. The main problem with this film is that Meyer’s final book barely contained enough content for one ...
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15th
November 2012

Great films I hate (or why I shouldn’t be a Film Editor: The Sequel)

Following on from last week’s feature, 'Shit films I love', I decided to continue my public shaming. The following films have caused much contension in the Felix Office – one ...
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9th
November 2012

Shit films I love (or why I shouldn’t be a Film Editor...)

I was recently challenged to rate every film I have ever seen. Apart from being a shockingly huge task, it also threw up a massive problem. Because there are incredible ...
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9th
November 2012

Taken 2 Review

Producer Luc Besson and director Olivier Megaton had a smash hit on their hands with 2008’s Taken, starring Liam Neeson as the ex-CIA guy whose daughter was kidnapped by traffickers in ...
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1st
November 2012

“Argo F*** Yourself”

Based on true events, Affleck’s latest directorial is a darkly comic mixture of thriller and political satire. When the US embassy in Tehran is stormed in November 1979 in retaliation for ...
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