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Remembering Rabbani
His son Shuja Rabbani remembers the man he was and his vision for Afghanistan.
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Film review: Paranormal Activity 3 - lights, camera, screams!
Although the film is very good at what it does, its narrative and character development is merely serviceable.
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Film review: Drive Angry - better off dead
Yes, there are times, when a piece of fiction is so bad, it is good, but Drive Angry is just bad.
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Film review: Cowboys and Aliens - the wild west
Movie doesn’t quite rise to the excellence of those genre classics, it does enough right in terms of plot and action.
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Film review: Johnny English Reborn - delightfully daft
The largest issue with the film is that most of the plot points feel a touch too foreseeable, and lack originality.
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Book review: Controversially Yours - off the rails
A large part of Controversially Yours comes across as an attempt by Akhtar to set the record straight.
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Film review: Conan - swords and Sorcery
Compared to cinematic iterations of Conan from the past, this 2011 film is a real bloody waste.
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Film review: Captain America - stars and stripes
At its core, it is pretty darned good superhero movie.
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Politics in chess: Checkmate
Dramas of Pakistani cricket pale in comparison to the soap opera that is chess, according to this chess champion.
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Film review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes - monkey business
The film avoids too deep an exploration of ethical and philosophical questions, which keeps the movie moving