By
Krithik Kumar Chandrashekar
The last I saw of Sam Rockwell was in Choke and Frost/Nixon — both good films, with Choke being slightly inferior. And Rockwell seems to continue the trend of choosing good roles. In Moon, he plays Sam Bell, an employee of Lunar Industries, who is assigned a three-year contract to stay on the moon to extract Helium-3 – a fuel for clean energy back on earth. For this three-year duration, he is alone save for the AI interface GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey) and the occasional messages he receives from earth.
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By
Deepa Narayanaswamy
Ever wondered as to who would have told the first lie? How did lies come into existence? Well, the British comedy The Invention of Lying might finally answer some of these questions. Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, this movie takes us to a parallel world where lying is something unheard of.
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By
Bhanutej Mallangi
2012 – The much hyped and nonetheless, awaited movie of the year released on Nov 13th and thanks to the UB, IIT students got to watch the premier of the movie at a discounted prize. This was probably the reason for the huge turnout of students at the ticket sales. The regular 11$ ticket was sold for 3$! They were sold on two different days, 75 on each day and surprisingly they were all sold in a matter of minutes. The rush of students was so much that the public safety was involved to contain them.
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By
Karl Rybaltowski
For Chicagoan foodies, Rick Bayless has always been an object of admiration. Chef and owner of Topolobampo and Frontera Grill (representing the haute cuisine and more down-to-earth country cooking of Mexico, respectively), publisher of multiple cookbooks, and advocate of sustainable and local farming practices, Bayless may be best known outside of Chicago as winner of the reality show Top Chef Masters, which pit a number of top chefs from around the country against each other. Bayless’ area of concentration within the realm of cuisine is the food of Mexico, and he’s been lauded both for his classy creations and (through his cookbooks) for making ‘real’ Mexican cuisine more accessible to Americans. But now all the buzz is about his latest venture, XOCO, a take on Mexican street food. And as long as you avoid going on a weekend evening, a visit to XOCO is a must.
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By
Udayan Das
What if writing were as easy as getting a few simple things right? An arresting opening, a compelling middle, and a strong ending. What if it is as simple as getting those things right? The rest then is emergent, things that stand on top of it. Once the structure is built, it is able to support many ideas – even weighty ones.
A Bend in the River opens with a beginning which is one of the best: “The World is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
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