Where you were when you first heard Susan Boyle sing the iconic song from the musical ‘Les Miserables’ on ‘Britain’s Got Talen’t will be the question your children will ask when you talk about the noughties. The album acts more as a souvenir to an overnight You Tube international phenomenon than a proper CD from a recording artist.
BY BRIAN SWANN
‘A Prophet’ is the first crime thriller of 2010 and it’s already been deemed superior to the likes of ‘Mesrine’ and ‘Public Enemies’, films that raised the bar in the genre in 2009. If you thought things couldn’t get any better, then prepare to be shaken-up by Audiard’s explosive insight into the French prison system. At the tender age of 19 Malik is sentenced to 6years for police violence. We follow him as he finds himself entering the strange and highly developed world of the professional criminal.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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There’s only so cheerful a film about post-apartheid South Africa can be, a sort of ‘joy quota’. With that in mind comes Disgrace , an adaptation of Coatzee’s novel of the same name, offering the very best in bleak tragedy.
BY DEREK CROSBY
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For many people attending, the theatre is a cultural experience and here in Belfast we are blessed with the numerous theatres we have, but rarely do people get the chance to experience what the West End stage in London has to offer. So on the last weekend of January, Queen’s Film Theatre for the first time broadcast the matinee performance of the current National Theatre production ‘Nation’.
BY BRIAN SWANN
Pick up your first Gown of 2010 today across campus! Your can also download it through our ‘downloads’ page.
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December saw the draw of the group stages for this summer’s World Cup finals, the first time they will be played on African soil. At the ceremony, the world watched as Nelson Mandela – a man who dedicated his life to improving rights and bringing relative peace to the South African nation – described his joy; at last the world will witness just how far Africa has come.
BY DON MCDERMOTT
Crude is an impressively involving exposé documentary about the injustices that the oil drilling giants Texaco have enforced upon the native dwellers of Ecuador along the Amazonian River. This is protest cinema at its best. This highly effective portrayal of the terribly wronged indigenous tribes of Ecuador follows their trail in the courts as they try to claim back their basic human rights that the US corporate group Chevron took away from them.
BY LAURA ANN SHEARER
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