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A vividly crafted and cunning whodunit.
Julian Roman - MovieWeb
The Prestige isn't art, but it reaps a lot of fun out of the question, How did they do that?
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
Entertaining, spirited and shamelessly gimmicky, Christopher Nolan's film tells the intricate tale of two rival magicians practicing their art in late-Victorian London.
A.O. Scott - New York Times
Gripping, suspenseful, mysterious, moving and often darkly funny.
Philip French - Guardian [UK]
The Prestige is wonderfully engrossing, darkly mysterious and entertaining from start to finish.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
Okay, I'll say it: If you see only one magic-at-the-turn-of-the-century movie this year, make it this one.
Ann Hornaday - Washington Post
This is grand, half-crazy fun, and Jackman and Bale are committed to their parts: Genuine madness glints in their eyes.
Ty Burr - Boston Globe
An oddly lopsided yet compulsively absorbing movie.
Scott Foundas - Village Voice
By describing the structure of a great trick in a movie about a great trick, The Prestige makes a promise it can't keep. Its third act is about as convincing as a photo of a cow jumping over the moon.
Jack Mathews - New York Daily News
It's more confusing than absorbing.
Bruce Westbrook - Houston Chronicle
Christopher Nolan's directing skills are in evidence with The Prestige, which follows the long feud of Victorian-era illusionists.
Michael Booth - Denver Post
The tit-for-tat scenario ought to be wildly entertaining, but the magic is crude, the characters flyweight, and the story protracted and unpleasant.
David Edelstein - New York Magazine
It's quite a movie -- atmospheric, obsessive, almost satanic.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
The Prestige gets to be a bit of a grind after a while, despite all the finery and the elegantly detailed atmosphere.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
The elegant contours of The Illusionist are even more impressive compared with Christopher Nolan's clutter of double and triple crosses in The Prestige.
J. R. Jones - Chicago Reader
Siblings Jonathan and Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the novel by Christopher Priest offers three acts of exasperating muddle.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
A twisty, tense chiller.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
A great contraption of a film, The Prestige is a classy little maze of distractions, obsessions and showmanship, a magic trick of a movie that keeps the viewer mesmerized and then ends with a flourish.
Tom Long - Detroit News
Parts of the film really stand out, but taken as a whole, it's a labyrinth of conflicting ideas.
Bill Muller - Arizona Republic
The film is lavishly mounted, set-wise, costume-wise, makeup-wise and special-effects-wise. But the magicians themselves are cold and devious, and the chill permeates the whole film.
Andrew Sarris - New York Observer
The movie is more infuriating and contrived than suspenseful and clever.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
Pic insists on a depth of human emotion that isn't developed -- protags emerge as one-dimensional, despite the efforts of two of our best leading actors -- amid increasingly elaborate, uninvolving plot mechanizations.
Dennis Harvey - Variety
The film's title is defined as the big finish to a magic trick, but the prestige of The Prestige just lies there like an abracadaver.
Kyle Smith - New York Post
A terrific cast, a gloomy tone and a few well-placed little bits of magic and real history bring a long-ago time and place to life.
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel
A pleasing puzzle of feuding conjurers played by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
The Prestige is a trick box with too many false bottoms.
Stephanie Zacharek - Salon.com
It doesn't want to explore epistemological questions about the nature of perception and memory; it just wants to mess with our heads. And as a wily, slightly sadistic chess game of a movie, it succeeds quite nicely.
Dana Stevens - Slate
Watching The Prestige is like observing a magic act where the magician's sleight-of-hand isn't deft enough. The trick almost works, but not quite.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
Audiences might enjoy this cinematic sleight of hand, but the key characters are such single-minded, calculating individuals that the real magic would be to find any heart in this tale.
Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter
By film's end, the notion of a rational and satisfying climax has hopelessly disappeared in a silly spiral of one-upmanship and a barrage of half-baked revelations that won't make you marvel so much as shrug and forget about them.
David Germain - Associated Press
For all the film's murky misdirections, it is very enjoyable.
Richard Schickel - TIME Magazine
There are nifty tricks galore up the sumptuous sleeve of this offbeat and wildly entertaining thriller.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
Passionate, atmospheric entertainment.
Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
Dean Essner - Sight and Sound
Until an inexplicably awful revelation at the end, The Prestige is a taut, exciting portrait of obsession and the dark competitive spirit of professional magicians.
Gabe Leibowitz - Film and Felt
Fernando F. Croce - CinePassion
Although the slowish pacing early on over-indicates how both magicians' marquee misdirection (a disappearing act) will be achieved, The Prestige still manages a neat trick of its own.
Justine Elias - Boston Phoenix
Show me a director better suited for a movie about magic than Christopher Nolan and I'll show you... a magician?
Brian Marder - Hollywood.com
The film is never less than engaging, though considering that the title The Prestige refers to the moment in a magic act that gives it its "wow" factor, it's kind of a shame that the ultimate "reveal" in the movie is a little too tricky for its own good.
Bob Mondello - NPR.org
"The Prestige" is a cinematic trick, nothing more, and the deadpan seriousness is part of the effect, and not an end in itself.
Brian Holcomb - Beyond Hollywood
In a movie about people who make their livings on misdirection, The Prestige utterly forgets to employ its own.
Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com
Nolan balances Hollywood and indie sensibilities pulling off a film that is smart, complicated and carries a big look.
Ryan Cracknell - Calgary Movies
As is his want, Mr. Nolan jumps between time periods and voice-overs with reckless abandon. The movie's real trick is that it all somehow manages to congeal.
Joe Lozito - Big Picture Big Sound
An example of old-fashioned storytelling, the kind of magical movie that could have been made fifty years ago and, consequently, will still be watched fifty years from now.
Brian Tallerico - UGO
An interesting if not entirely satisfactory theatrical interpretation of magical rivalries.
Dan Jardine - Cinemania
...one of those pictures where the journey is more important than the destination.
John J. Puccio - DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio - Movie Metropolis
The who's-bilking-whom mind games make for compelling fun, but once the presto moment of The Prestige is revealed, you're left with nothing but shattered illusions.
Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out New York
The Prestige is a ridiculously, almost uncomfortably engaging film.
Michelle Orange - Reeler
Mientras unos encontraran enigma y adiccion %u2014como si se tratase de una historia del genio Hitchcock%u2014 otros, aquellos que buscan el piso falso en el tablado del escenario, porque simplemente no creen en la verdadera magia, saldran desilusionados
Luis Martinez - Cinenganos
full review in Greek
Joseph Proimakis - Movies for the Masses
Dean Essner - Irish Times
Odd, but brilliantly so. It's a small film that feels big, a period drama that looks modern, defying comparison to anything but Nolan himself.
Dan Jolin - Empire Magazine
Like a great magician, Nolan makes the pledge, takes the turn and delivers the prestige.
Michael A. Smith - Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Magical? Not so much.
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel - 3BlackChicks Review
Christopher Nolan presenta la rivalidad entre dos magos como si se tratara de un vistozo y complejo truco de magia cuyo secreto nos es develado.
Enrique Buchichio - Uruguay Total
[The Nolans] could not have conjured a more chimerical story than this transcontinental thriller about two men selling their souls to destroy each other.
Rex Roberts - Film Journal International
Tout comme le magistral Batman Begins, The Prestige se veut une %u0153uvre de marque dont le raffinement et l'intelligence n'ont d'egal que sa grande accessibilite.
Jean-Francois Vandeuren - Panorama
It's a very cool piece of filmmaking -- as it has to be, given the intellectual sleight-of-hand that lies at its heart. Yet it succeeds as both great entertainment and an absorbing rumination on the dangers of playing God.
Sandra Hall - Sydney Morning Herald
A sleight-of-hand thriller set in Britain's Victorian era where magic was mysterious and performing it precarious, the film is a dark and aggressive emotional roller coaster that challenges the imagination.
Angela Baldassarre - Sympatico.ca
If movies are among our greatest, most enduring vehicles for illusion, then a movie about dueling illusionists should, in theory, offer that same sleight of hand--only amplified. In this case, it does.
Christopher Smith - Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Perhaps it is because the film focuses so much on the mechanical and the material that the sudden intrusion of the genuinely magical feels forced and even somewhat silly.
James Kendrick - Q Network Film Desk
Rarely has magic been presented less magically.
Steve Rhodes - Internet Reviews
Ha filmes que se tornam ainda mais fascinantes quando revisitados, ja que o fato de sabermos seus segredos oferece leituras novas e surpreendentes; em outras palavras: o que era mera surpresa transforma-se em rica ironia dramatica. e o caso deste longa.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
The Prestige is a superb puzzle-box thriller.
Jamie Russell - BBC
The Prestige looks great and there's too much class involved for it to be anything but entertaining. Even so, a suspicion that Nolan overstretched and overdeveloped his story is inescapable.
Jay Richardson - Future Movies UK
We invest in the furious battle because there is more at stake than a magic trick: each man has to sacrifice things near and dear to him
Urban Cinefile Critics - Urban Cinefile
Part 'Sleuth,' part 'Itchy & Scratchy,' part science-fiction...
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
It isn't my favorite Nolan film, but it's better than most of the films I see.
Jim Chastain - Norman Transcript
Not only does it tell you how it's all done, it takes so long about it that you've got time to look up its sleeves and work it out for yourself.
Ben Walters - Time Out
It lodges itself as not much more than a (perhaps shockingly) bitter little pill.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
Part homage to the art of performance, part admiration of science and technology, part unexpected turn to science fiction, and total mind-melting madness.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
... this odd tale about obsessive Victorian-era magicians and their blood feud isn't nearly as enchanting as it should be.
Lori Hoffman - Atlantic City Weekly
This dazzling film and first-rate thriller holds you spellbound and doesn't let go.
Pete Hammond - Maxim
The Prestige is about dueling magicians, but the movie itself is the magic trick.
Greg Maki - Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
The supporting cast are excellent, particularly rising British star Rebecca Hall as Borden's wife and David Bowie,looking disturbingly like Ricky Gervais in a bizarre turn as mysterious scientist Nikolai Tesla.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
The Prestige's magic pales in comparison to other 'magical' films released this year.
Paul Salfen - Supercala.com
The PrestigeH is infused with faux intellectualism -- it pretends to be more cerebral than it really is, when all it really wants to do is be the new Sixth Sense.
Randy Shulman - Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
Had the Nolans held their cards closer to their vests for the first half of the film, The Prestige would have been one of the best of the year.
Rebecca Murray - About.com
Watching Bowie as Thomas Edison's archenemy Nikola Tesla, you wish the role (a glorified cameo) were more integral to the story.
Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle
Not to be confused with "The Illusionist," although it will be, is "The Prestige," the second period piece about magicians to hit the big screen within the last few weeks.
Linda Cook - Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Clever story up the sleeve, but nothing in the way of the wonder of magic. Honestly, I found the mood rather miserable.
Ross Anthony - Hollywood Report Card
It may be dry and sullen, but it's also smart and classy.
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
Stylishly twisty turny
Scott Nash - Three Movie Buffs
What The Prestige and filmmaker Nolan seem to have forgotten about magic is the very important element of misdirection. Without misdirection, an audience is bound to discover the trick and not be impressed.
Beth Accomando - KPBS.org
There's no real magic here.
Susan Tavernetti - Palo Alto Weekly
It might even get a best screenplay nomination come Oscar time next year.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
...an ingenious Chinese box of a movie...
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
"The Prestige" is a terrifically entertaining thriller even if you spot the false bottoms and secret trap doors in the screenplay.
Rob Thomas - Capital Times (Madison, WI)
This guy knows how to tell stories for audiences who can hold their own hands, thank you.
Gina Carbone - Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
This is a thriller, an education in stage magic, a mystery, and even a bit of a science fiction film.
Mark R. Leeper - rec.arts.movies.reviews
Jackman and Bale give standout performances as rivals whose mutual obsession destroys all sense of perspective and ruins lives.
Richard Roeper - Ebert & Roeper
Its greatest trick is that it's a meditation on the nature of reality and identity disguised as entertainment.
Ken Hanke - Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The year's most intricate screenplay... The Prestige pinpoints an unspoken torment of creative artists, where being second best represents failure when first place is within grasp.
Mark Palermo - Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Tightly plotted and thematically well-crafted.
Steven D. Greydanus - Decent Films Guide
It's a magic trick that's all showmanship and craft, but lacking true whimsy, ultimately failing the audience.
Mark Bell - Film Threat
The obsessive-compulsive disorder that propels the drama into a miasma of misplaced morality is as fascinating as it is designed to be with perhaps a repetition or two that takes some edge off the otherwise crisp showmanship.
Jules Brenner - Cinema Signals
The Prestige takes its title literally, asking us to believe in the power that stature and esteem has over two dark, desperate men, to witness how far both will go to achieve it...and more importantly, prevent it from happening for the other.
Bill Gibron - DVD Verdict
Nolan has nothing special up his sleeve in this hazy smoke-and-mirrors drama, especially in Jackman's climactic trick that's too sci-fi and fantastic to be believed.
Thomas Delapa - Boulder Weekly
It's no illusion - "The Prestige" is the best film of 2006
Jeffrey Lyles - Gazette (MD)
The Prestige quite brilliantly replicates the experience of a great magic trick. You know what you have just seen isn't possible, and while you recognize some of the trickery, you can't spell it all out. You walk away completely amazed.
Mike McGranaghan - Aisle Seat
Don't move, don't blink, and don't breathe... make The Prestige your new dark obsession.
Kevin A. Ranson - MovieCrypt.com
It will have you talking on the way out of the theatre and maybe thinking about that one glaring error in logic, but it's like an illusion, if you think about it too much, it will spoil the magic.
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone - TheMovieChicks.com
'The Prestige' is one of those weird movies that plays better in memory than it does on the screen.
Dan Lybarger - eFilmCritic.com
Though mostly a leaden affair, it has its few diversionary magical moments.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The film begins to teeter slightly as it reaches its climax; it takes too long to unveil the many twists and surprises, but up to then, this is impeccable, enormously invigorating filmmaking.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
Marvel as I take a page from the U.S. government and snap my fingers to create a 700 mile fence around Scarlett Johansson's cleavage. Yes, that would leave 350 miles of bosom unprotected, but we must all sacrifice for our art.
Mark Ramsey - MovieJuice!
The magicians are ever fooled, as each believes he is the more original artist. Ironically, this makes them, as Olivia observes angrily, "perfect for each other."
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
A major reason Nolan has become one of the premier filmmakers in the industry is because he never casts an actor that isn't completely deserving of the role.
Jason Zingale - Bullz-Eye.com
Dean Essner - Bullz-Eye.com
Chris Nolan has firmly established himself as an innovative, A-list director who knows how to tell a story.
Robin Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Following The Illusionist, The Prestige is this season's second thriller about stage magic at the end of the 19th century. The Prestige is the more satisfying.
Jeffrey Westhoff - Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
The Prestige is filled with lots of suspenseful twists and turns, deeply engaging performances from co-stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale and a powerful conclusion that will make you want to see it again.
Scott A. Mantz - Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews
Christopher Nolan's The Prestige revisits some of the same themes -- questioning appearances, reality and perceptions -- as the director's previous Memento but with less satisfying results.
Shlomo Schwartzberg - Boxoffice Magazine
An assured bonbon of a film that's thoroughly and deliciously entertaining.
Moira MacDonald - Seattle Times
A complex revenge drama and an intriguing mystery that, like the old magic act standby, attempts to pull a rabbit or two out of its hat by the end.
Dustin Putman - DustinPutman.com
Nolan delivers a movie in which the complexity of plot sometimes exceeds the complexity of the ideas. Still, he manages to create some captivating cinematic magic along the way.
Robert Denerstein - Denver Rocky Mountain News
This opulent, multi-layered mystery offers unconventional, cleverly intricate, intriguing entertainment.
Susan Granger - www.susangranger.com
Like Memento, Nolan's Prestige is an ever-shifting hall of mirrors so masterfully executed that its emotional hollowness actually manages to be beside the point.
Brett Buckalew - FilmStew.com
Not since Hitchcock has a director been so good at holding out their films' greatest secrets until the very end.
Neil Miller - Film School Rejects
The Prestige's chief pleasure lies in [Jackman and Bale's] increasingly ornate games of deception, which Nolan orchestrates with a showman's aplomb.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
Befitting a story about magicians, The Prestige is certainly tricky and deceitful. But it's also too elegant and classy to resort to cheap third-act revelations as a way of juicing its story.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
This dazzling and spellbinding tale about the intense rivalry between two magicians in London tutors us in the art of watching closely.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
Returning to more intimate filmmaking after helming Batman Begins, director Christopher Nolan manages to make The Prestige's complex story as easily understandable and effective as he made the outwardly straightforward comic book adaptation
Todd Gilchrist - IGN Movies
The Prestige plunges us into a world of deception as means, end and the whole point, really.
Carla Meyer - Sacramento Bee
It bounces seamlessly from the present to the past and back again while juggling magic, science, trickery and lies, creating a mood that transcends the story.
Jim Slotek - Jam! Movies
Christopher Nolan brings a shadowy, gas-lit aura to The Prestige, and gets strongly diverse performances from Jackman and Bale.
Jack Garner - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A frequently dazzling display of cinematic sleight-of-hand from writer/director Christopher Nolan, The Prestige is an entertaining, handsomely produced period thriller.
Timothy Knight - Reel.com
Visually spry and contemplative, what more can one say about a forceful film that asks us to unmask our hidden Houdini within? Hey, it's just plain magic!
Frank Ochieng - Movie Eye
The plot is somewhat complicated, and only a little bit predictable. However, like any good magic trick, even if you know the outcome, it's fun to watch the process.
Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
The Prestige is the kind of popcorn movie that M. Night Shyamalan should dedicate himself to making -- a dark, freaky thrill ride, committed to old-fashioned storytelling that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Glenn Whipp - Los Angeles Daily News
The Prestige is as entertaining as it is intricate and as enticingly mysterious as its title, which comes from the professional magician's lexicon.
Terry Lawson - Detroit Free Press
Nolan's supreme confidence, narrative skill, and taste for complexity make for unusually rich popular entertainment. Where was The Prestige this summer when we needed it most?
Peter Canavese - Groucho Reviews
The most disappointing film to date from director Christopher Nolan, whose track record was pretty much perfect up to this point (2000's Memento, 2005's Batman Begins).
Jeff Vice - Deseret News, Salt Lake City
For something as nasty as this it's a really fun film.
Eric Lurio - Greenwich Village Gazette
The "reveal" was a surprise and quite deliciously executed.
Victoria Alexander - Movie Reviews in Croatian
If you hate that sort of thing, then stay away. But if not, then go enjoy the trickery.
Dave White - Movies.com
It's a gorgeous, strange little piece, but I did find myself wishing it poked fewer aces out its sleeve after urging us to pay such close attention.
M.E. Russell - Oregonian
M. Night Shyamalan could learn a thing or two from the Nolans when it comes to dramatic tension and payoff. A good story isn't just about the twist, it's about people.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
Nolan's slick sleight of hand creates enough abracadabra moments to make for an entertaining diversion.
Matt Stevens - E! Online
Unfortunately the script is too smart for its own good.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
A lavishly mounted but maddeningly uninvolving piece about dueling stage magicians.
Robert W. Butler - Kansas City Star
For my money, there was too much turning and not enough prestige in The Prestige.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
Throughout, (director Christopher) Nolan creates not so much an atmosphere of suspense as one of anticipation.
Bob Bloom - Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
It is good for magic to be, in effect, confounding. It is not so good for a movie about magic to be confusing.
David Elliott - San Diego Union-Tribune
A mean and nasty film about men consumed by the goal of triumphing against their competition in the most merciless way.
Jeffrey Chen - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
The film's prestige is a doozy, both dazzling and preposterous, but if you're watching closely, it's flawlessly set up.
Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide's Movie Guide
The key is in the title ... and the dawning realization that the movie is structured like a truly original magic trick.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
Director Nolan's fascination with magic and with tricks in general comes through without question, but he approaches the subject with a seriousness that soon turns grim.
Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle
It begs for repeated viewings and will likely get them from moviegoers who want to crack Nolan's own theatrical magic trick.
Bill Clark - FromTheBalcony
Itchy and Scratchy and Houdini
Devin Faraci - CHUD
...a dazzlingly complicated narrative; indeed, it might prove a little too complicated for many viewers.
Andy Klein - Los Angeles CityBeat
The plot is, likes its characters, a master of misdirection
Nell Minow - Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
It's all about prestidigitation, folks - and Nolan's hugely entertaining film performs the best sleight-of-hand this side of Vegas.
David Foucher - EDGE Boston
It's a battle that's played out every day at recess in kids' imaginations: Who would win in a fight between Batman and Wolverine?
Phil Villarreal - Arizona Daily Star
A story about a third act that begins to come undone in its own third act.
Jon Popick - Planet Sick-Boy
A dark, complex story full of twists and turns, complete with flawed heroes and voice-over narration -- The Prestige is pure Victorian noir.
Staci Layne Wilson - About.com
Take the movie's first words to heart: watch closely. You'll be well rewarded.
David Ansen - Newsweek
The Prestige earns high praise as a terrific historical thriller, but also because it grasps the medium's links to this subject so uncannily well.
Rob Vaux - Flipside Movie Emporium
Nolan has handed himself a difficult task by tackling a complicated, often downbeat story with two cold, central figures. ... But Nolan, like Angier and Borden, has no shortage of tricks up his sleeve...
James Sanford - Kalamazoo Gazette
Nice sleights of hand but lacking in emotion.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
[The Nolan brothers] have collaborated on a script that is sometimes on target, but hopelessly hamstrung by a wobbly second half for which its grand finale cannot compensate.
Phoebe Flowers - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
A brilliantly plotted, smartly directed, fiendishly entertaining merry-go-round.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
The movie is a mind-tickler that makes the viewer actively engage with the story and try to penetrate its elegant sleight-of-hand.
Steve Murray - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nolan has used the same illusionist's ruses to craft an entertainment whose power lies not behind the curtain but right in front of all the types of magic imaginable.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
The Prestige is a good escalating battle of wits. Obsessives are compelling. They're usually right about their obsession, devoted and clever. We don't have to live with their social dysfunction. We just see the cool parts.
Fred Topel - Can Magazine
The Prestige winds up a mediocre muddle.
Jason Ferguson - Orlando Weekly
If you can forgive some woeful casting and a plot that is as creakingly thin as an old staircase, you can enjoy director Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.
Paula Nechak - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Although the new film comes with a superior pedigree, it's just about equal in terms of quality with its earlier-in-theaters rival.
Paul Doro - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Despite good acting and direction, the denouement in the film was so feeble it rendered the entire movie meaningless.
Tony Medley - tonymedley.com
It entertains for awhile, but it grows increasingly desperate as it reaches third-act explanations.
John Hartl - MSNBC
The twistiest thriller since Memento.
Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
If The Prestige is something of a let down as a magic trick, it's more successful as a tale of obsession.
Ethan Alter - Premiere Magazine
[A]s smart as it is shifty, like some lost Alan Moore graphic novel come to life, like something Jules Verne would have written if he were Neil Gaiman.
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
As dark as it gets, like Batman Begins before it, it's also a wildly entertaining movie.
Kevin N. Laforest - Montreal Film Journal
The first words in the dazzling The Prestige are, 'Are you watching closely?' You'd better be.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
...the rare magic trick that still holds its power even after you've learned all of its secrets.
Josh Larsen - Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
You'll fall in love with it. It's not just Nolan's best film; it's one of the best of the year.
Joshua Tyler - CinemaBlend.com
Nolan continues to surprise with his choices. Sharply uneven, Prestige is both complex and convoluted, logical and contrived, distancing (first part) and involving (second), worth seeing for those interested in Nolan's evolution as auteur.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
the wunderkind director's latest in a growing line of masterpieces.
Sean O'Connell - Filmcritic.com
The Prestige retains a mesmerizing hold on the audience, and it returns magic to the realm of the real, where craftsmanship and stage presence are just as thrilling as the physical act of disappearance.
Brian Orndorf - FilmJerk.com
Ultra-stylish and handsomely acted by Bale and Jackman, The Prestige is a workout for your mind and entertainment of the highest order.
Matt Pais - Metromix.com
Many films are under-written or not well thought out enough, Prestige is the opposite - it's almost too clever for its own good and consequently thinks it can outsmart the audience at every turn.
Garth Franklin - Dark Horizons
a thrilling movie with great twists and turns, fantastic acting and an intensity that can only be matched in theaters by The Departed.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
Expect to leave exhilarated and more than a bit disturbed.
Jan Stuart - Newsday
The Prestige is plot-heavy, but it has its moments.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
A ponderous tale of envy and one-upmanship that promises much but in the end delivers surprisingly little...seriously short of cinematic magic.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
Because the movie is exemplary on a number of levels -- the production design is immaculate, and the cast members consign themselves to Nolan's dark vision -- it doesn't need to live or die solely on the strength of the script's cinematic sleight of hand.
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
I'm sure that multiple viewings of the movie will bring out the richness and the details, but even on first viewing, I was completely and totally engrossed.
Ted Murphy - Murphy's Movie Reviews
Underneath the film's tantalizing stratagems lies little more than mundane truths.
Nick Schager - Slant Magazine
An enchanting puzzle, not flashy, but fiendishly clever in the plotting and even more fiendish in the telling.
Andrea Chase - Killer Movie Reviews


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Foo Fighters have set a new Billboard chart record with their latest single, “Under You.”
The track has reached the top 10 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay ranking, which measures the combined radio airplay of a song on alternative, mainstream rock and adult alternative stations. “Under You” is the 16th Foos song to achieve that feat, giving Dave Grohl and company claim to the most top-10 hits on Rock & Alternative Airplay since it began in 2009.
Previously, Foo Fighters had been tied with Shinedown for the record.
“Under You” is the current single off the new Foo Fighters album, But Here We Are, their first following the 2022 death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. It also includes the lead single “Rescued.”
Foo Fighters have been playing one-off headlining shows and festival sets throughout the summer. Their next scheduled performance is set for September 3 in Aspen, Colorado.
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A Pakistani police officer was handed a ‘suspension’ on Monday after a video of him spread like wildfire on social media, triggering senior officials to take legal notice and launch an interrogation into the incident. Inspector Arshad who was assigned at Kalyana police station in Pakpattan came under heavy criticism after two videos of him went viral on the internet.
In a first video, it was being widely reported that the same inspector is seen dancing with a woman on a famous Bollywood track ‘Kisi Disco Mein Jaayen…’ that originally highlights Govinda and Raveena Tandon.
Coming to the second video, the police officer can be seen delivering dialogue from Anil Kapoor’s 2013 movie Shootout at Wadala. “Do waqt ki roti kamata hoon, panch waqt ki namaaz padhta hoon … isse zyada meri zaroorat nahi, aur mujhe khareedne ki teri aukaad nahi,” he says in the video.
After when the videos went rife onthe internet, District Police Officer Pakpattan Maria Mehmood took a decisive step by suspending the officer and then ordered that a probe has been launched on an official level. As per the local website, the video was saved in Inspector Arshad’s cellphone, nonetheless, his nephew uploaded the video on the internet platform from where it went viral.
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September, last year, I became enlisted into the most unique company I have ever known. What makes this company different? It is the community and the culture.
LISNR is about being better than enough. This is being recognized by our customers and is really beneficial to its employees, community, and is a must. Without a living culture, no company can get the talent to maintain its course. It is by our culture that we have attracted the talent that has grown into our workforce. This is more than just a group of people; we are a family, a team. We have grown into a family that believes in our cause and become stitched together at the seams. This patchwork is united by commonality and driven by not one, but us all. United, LISNR has stood, is standing, and will continue to stand.
Unification through happiness
“Become happy, which will then help you become a success”1 (The Importance of Happiness in the Workplace, 2012).
The stats of working in a place concerned with your happiness, according to the research from the Wall Street Journal and iOpener Institute as recorded by the United States Geological Survey Department2, is:
- Employees believe they are fulfilling their potential up to double that of their peers
- Around 65% of employees have more energy
- 58% of employees are more team oriented and helpful
- Employees align their values with the company’s values up to 98% more than their peers in other businesses
- Workers are 10 times less likely to take sick days
- And most importantly to the bottom line, 85% of happy employees are more efficient at their work than the alternative
(List paraphrased from The Science of Happiness: How to Build a Killer Culture in Your Company, 2013)
Happy, Disruptive People
Above is a picture of those stats come to life in a culture of individuals who have achieved success from a healthy, happy workplace. These very people are what helped LISNR to become the #12 disruptor company3 (Meet the 2015 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies, 2015).
So how did these happy people become so happy?
- Engaged leadership who understand that the employees decide the culture (Leadership guides, does not dictate)
- Employee meetings on deciding the culture (We set the parameters)
- Happiness Committee (Because we are that dedicated to happiness)
- Training opportunities (Encouraged to grow with hack-a-thons, mentorships, and pair programming)
- Agile Development Strategies (You know it!)
- We roll deep when we decide to go places (Employee engagement)
LISNR is its own company derived by a people who believe in the company values, establishes a culture that is involved in the local community, and most importantly, care about each other and our mutual success. As our culture grows, our success will grow, exponentially. We won’t be turned down for nothing!
1The Importance of Happiness in the Workplace. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.leadertoleaderjournal.com/sample-articles/the-importance-of-happiness-in-the-workplace.aspx.
2The Science of Happiness: How to Build a Killer Culture in Your Company. (2013). Globoforce Limited. Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/humancapital/ecd/mentoringreadinglist/Science_of_Happiness.pdf.
3Meet the 2015 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies. (2015). CNBC. Retrieved from http://www.cnbc.com/id/102609977
LISNR is a high frequency, inaudible technology; a new communication protocol that sends data over audio. As the leaders of the Internet of Sound, we use inaudible sound waves called SmartTones™, to transmit information. LISNR essentially transmits customizable packets of data every second that enable proximity data transmission, second-screen functionality, authentication and low-fi device to deviceconnectivity on any LISNR enabled device. We enable this functionality better and more efficiently than bluetooth (proximity), ACR (2nd Screen), and NFC/RFID (authentication). As an integrated software partner, LISNR can power devices to connect with world around better than ever before.

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via Ministry of Info to be abolished say insiders – The Zimbabwean 16 July 2015
The Ministry of Information Media and Broadcasting Services portfolio is set to be phased out and replaced by a mere department in the President ‘s office, sources have informed The Zimbabwean.
President Robert Mugabe last week transferred Jonathan Moyo from the Ministry of Information to that of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, leaving Public Service, Labour and Social Services minister Prisca Mupfumira holding fort in an acting capacity in a move described by observers as unprecedented and eyebrow raising.
Inside sources said this week that the ministry would now be relegated to a department in the President’s office – superintended by presidential spokesperson and incumbent permanent secretary, George Charamba.
“There is now a strong feeling within the Zanu (PF) leadership that the information ministry should be abolished and a department headed by a neutral person who is not tainted by any party factional links,” said a ministry source who refused to be named for fear of victimisation. He accused Moyo of using the ministry to fan factional power battles through the public media, saying “factional fighting has destroyed the party”.
In April last year, former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono allegedly confided in Mugabe that the ministry of information had blacklisted him from appearing in the public media.
Responding to Gono‘s claims Moyo said “ They say some people are on the blacklist and the blacklist comes from the ministry; why should we have a blacklist as if it’s a credit facility? I was shocked when my good friend, the former governor suggested there are people who don’t want him covered.”

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Spun Gold doc will be the first with full access to the future Princess Consort.
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is to be the subject of an ITV documentary from renowned filmmaker Jane Treays.
The Real Camilla: HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, produced by Spun Gold TV, will be the first documentary with full access to the future Princess Consort.
Treays, who was also responsible for directing ITN Productions’ The Queen’s Green Planet which aired to 5.2m on ITV this week, shot the film throughout Camilla’s 70th year.
Due to air this spring, her latest effort will include scenes of decorating the Christmas Tree in Clarence House and welcoming pensioners for tea, taking rainy walks in Scotland with her pet Jack Russell terriers and dancing to Elvis songs with the Prince of Wales.
The film will also show Camilla working with some of the charities she supports.
It is the latest royal show produced by Spun Gold, which also produced recent Channel 4 seven-parter The Royal House of Windsor and ITV’s When Phillip met Prince Philip as well as coverage of The Queen’s 90th Birthday in 2016.
The Real Camilla will be exec produced by Juliet Rice and Nick Bullen.
Controller of factual Jo Clinton-Davis ordered the show, which will be distributed by All3Media International.
Clinton-Davis said: “With candid interviews with The Duchess and HRH The Prince of Wales, family, friends and the people who know her best, The Real Camilla provides a unique insight into the life, relationships and work of The Duchess of Cornwall.”
Executive producer Rice added: “Viewers will see the private side of Camilla they’ve never seen before.”


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West Palm Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
Flamingo Park Historic District
Erected 2001 by The Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association and the Florida Department of State. (Marker Number F-442.)
Location. Touch for map. Marker is in a traffic circle at the intersection. Marker is in this post office area: West Palm Beach FL 33401, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Grandview Heights Historic District (approx. ¼ mile away); Flamingo Park (approx. ¼ mile away); El Cid Neighborhood (approx. 0.6 miles away); Palm Beach High School (approx. 0.9 miles away); Palm Beach Junior College (approx. 0.9 miles away); Seaboard Air Line Station (approx. 1.1 miles away); Clematis Street Commercial Historic District (approx. 1.2 miles away); Flagler Park (approx. 1.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in West Palm Beach.
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Credits. This page was last revised on August 11, 2016. This page originally submitted on August 10, 2016, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. This page has been viewed 136 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 10, 2016, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.

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Your salary is not love and your word is not love. Your clothes are not love and holding hands is not love. Sex is not love and a kiss is not love. Long letters are not love and a text is not love. Flowers are not love and a box of chocolates is not love. Sunsets are not love and photographs are not love. The stars are not love and a beach under the moonlight is not love. The smell of someone else on your pillow is not love and the feeling of their skin touching your skin is not love. Heart-shaped candy is not love and an overseas holiday is not love. The truth is not love and winning an argument is not love. Warm coffee isn't love and cheap cards bought from stores are not love. Tears are not love and laughter is not love. A head on a shoulder is not love and messages written at the front of books given as gifts are not love. Apathy is not love and numbness is not love. A pain in your chest is not love and clenching your fist is not love. Rain is not love.Only you. Only you, are love.
There are only so many of us born at a time and we are thrown into the world to find each other, to find the other ones who don't think you're strange, who understand your jokes, your smile, the way you talk.There are only so many of us born at a time and we only have so long to find each other before we die.But we have to try.
After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.
You must remember this feeling, Jon.The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don'tover analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.
It does not count if you believe in yourself when it’s easy to believe in yourself. It does not count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It does not count if you think you’re going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you. It counts when it’s hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world’s going to end and you’ve still got a long way to go.That’s when it counts. That’s when it matters the most.
Now I'm awake and you're here. Now I'm dreaming and you're here. Now I have nothing but days. Never nights.
There is no music, just the sound of the wind and the leaves it touches. But hopefully that'll be music enough, for you.
Too many people mistook envy for happiness. They believed other people wanting to do the things they were doing was more important than doing things they wanted to do. So they'd edit their photographs and edit their lives and edit and lie until from a distance, it looked like they had the perfect life. But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.
Because I found the strength to do the things I believe in, and the will to stop doing the things I don't believe in.So I have discovered what it means, to be at peace.
And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.
The things you struggle with today are the things you choose to struggle with.Because you believe that what you want to accomplish, is worth struggling for.
The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass. Just silence and sunshine. You would be forgiven for thinking that this all happened on another planet. It didn’t.
If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.It's meant to be hard.
Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is the only way you know how to be. Cocaine makes you feel important, that life matters, that you matter. That the music is better than it really is. That every conversation is profound and that all pretenses have been stripped away. Ecstasy makes you dance all night and love your friends so much, in a way that you've never been able to tell them about before. Acid makes you see pretty colours and makes things breathe. But Sadness, there is nothing like Sadness.
Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking.
I read what you leave in public spaces. The songs you reference. The quotes you quote. I know it’sabout me. I can feel you thinking of me. I want to tell you that I know and admit that I feel the same.But I can’t. Not yet.
I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you’re just the dream inside of a dream And don’t worry, I know I don’t know you, anymore.
And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about
If there's one thing I hate, it's not knowing what's wrong with someone and all you want to do is make them feel better.
You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.

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High cholesterol has become a big problem for people of all ages at this time. Cholesterol is a fat that is made naturally by the liver and flows through the blood. It is good for your health in many ways, but when it gets too high in your blood, it can be bad for your health. People with high cholesterol should pay attention to their diet and the foods they eat.
People who don’t eat in a heart-healthy way are more likely to have high cholesterol. This is why you shouldn’t eat a lot of fats that are bad for you. Some medicines for erectile dysfunction, like buy cenforce d , Fildena 100, and Nizagara 100, work by increasing blood flow. This gives the male genitalia enough blood to keep an erection going for a long time.
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Red meat such as beef, lamb, and pork have high saturated fat. Food dishes like pork chops, roasts, hamburgers, ribs, etc., are High Cholesterol food. You can eat it occasionally but cut it from your regular diet. It is better to prefer leaner cuts of meat with a 3-ounce portion. You can also replace red meat with low-saturated fat protein food. Low cholesterol diet includes turkey breast, skinless chicken, fish, and beans.
Remember that your favourite sausage, hot dogs, and bacon are the fattiest cuts of meat. These come under a high-cholesterol diet because of high saturated fat. Rather, you can prefer sausage or chicken, which is a healthier option. These are also lower in cholesterol compared to red meat. Vigora 100 increases the flow of blood toward the penile organ of males, resulting in a rigid erection that lasts for an extended period of time.
Fried food must be avoided completely. Chicken wings, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, etc., are foods with high cholesterol to avoid. These are made with a deep frying method which turns out to be the worst for people with high cholesterol. Deep frying increases the calorie count of foods. When it’s hard to avoid fried food, it is better to use an air fryer and toss it with olive oil. You can also choose to bake foods at a high temperature rather than frying.
Delicious sweet treats like cakes, cookies, and pastries are made of heavy quantities of butter which turns out to be high in cholesterol. These desserts resemble meals for high cholesterol. It doesn’t mean that you have to quit your dessert entirely; you can replace it with low-fat frozen yoghurt with berry toppings. You can also use applesauce or bananas and replace the butter.
Lists Of Food That Naturally Reduces Cholesterol
Diet control and healthy food habits are natural ways to lower cholesterol. There are some good foods that will help you reduce the bad cholesterol level in the body. So, people looking for “how can I lower my cholesterol,” here we brought the list of food to include in their regular diet. This health condition has led to cardiovascular disorders, heart diseases, and other complications.
This is an easy and quick meal, categorised under the best diet for high cholesterol. A bowl of oatmeal with fruits for breakfast will reduce cholesterol as it offers 1 to 2 grams of soluble fibre.
Eggplant And Okra
These are low-calorie content vegetables that are good for cholesterol control. It has good sources of soluble fibre to reduce the bad cholesterol in the body.
Beans are the solution for people looking for how to lower cholesterol naturally. It is rich in soluble fibre. It will also reduce your weight.
Nuts such as almonds, walnuts, peanuts, etc., are cholesterol healthy foods. It also has additional nutrients to protect your heart.
Fatty fish are healthy cholesterol foods that can lower LDL in two ways by delivering LDL-lowering omega-3 fats.
It is better for cholesterol treatment. Oil from canola, safflower, sunflower, and others is the right substitution for butter.
Supplements such as psyllium, two teaspoons a day, resulting in 4 grams of soluble fibre. Therefore, these come under good cholesterol foods.
So, if you are looking for “how do I lower my cholesterol,” fill your diet chart with an LDL-restricted diet. Avoid food strictly which has high-fat content and find its substitution. In this way, you can keep your heart healthy.

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Greater Two-Weapon Fighting (Combat)
You are incredibly skilled at fighting with two weapons at the same time.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: You get a third attack with your off-hand weapon, albeit at a –10 penalty.
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A trip to California wouldn’t be complete without following some of its legendary coastlines and dropping into a yarn shop or two on the way. In the quaint, picturesque little city of Carmel-by-the-Sea, is the aptly named, Knitting by the Sea. Maybe knitware and sand aren’t a combination that instantly springs to mind, but this lovely yarn shop will soon have you convinced.
The yarn stock of Knitting by the Sea has obviously been carefully curated with a lot of love. If you’re bored of the big brands and looking for an insight into some of the amazing dyeing talent on offer with smaller operations, this is a great place to visit. They have a load of knitting accessories too, just in case you’ve come to the beach without your favourite stitch holder.
It’s perhaps a little cheesy but my favourite souvenirs now are some fabric or crafting item that reminds me of a place. Baah! LaJolla California Coast was perfectly suited the occasion of remembering a day of a long drive by the sea, with weather from every season along the way. I’m not sure the pale green would have been my choice for the Californian coastline but the navy speckles capture some of the moodiness of the ocean on the rocks. The yarn has a nice, tight ply for some added durability but is easily soft enough for a cosy pair of socks.
Anzula’s Nebula was another yarn I didn’t want to leave without. I love the richness of the subtle variegation in the greys and the sparkle is awesome. It’s very plushy and I think it’s going to have a good drape, though it’s little on the hairy side. Given how much I hate hairy yarns to work with, I hope it’s going to be okay but I’m sure nothing can be as bad as my devil skein of Manos Del Uruguay…
Another amusing highlight of the store is a rather epically proportioned cat, named Boomer, with a penchant for lying on knitting patterns or anywhere that maximum inconvenience can be caused. If you’re in Carmel, try and check out the incredible Chinese embroidery shop located a few minutes’ walk too. They have some beautiful pieces on display.
To me, it seems that America has an incredibly vibrant indie dyeing scene. If you follow Indie Untangled (subscribe at your own warning), there seems to be no end of beautiful yarns with themes ranging from the silly to the bizarre with what seems like new suppliers popping up every week. The dangers of internet shopping is that distance is no restriction and one such discovery from this mailing list of money sinks was the rather dazzling Llamicorn series by Pandia’s Jewels…
I loved the outrageous colour scheme so much that I felt I needed to see it in the flesh, obviously on the Super Sparkle Base. I had left ordering it a little late in my trip but huge thanks to Pandia for some really awesome customer service and letting me upgrade the shipping to expedited service just to make sure it turned up on time. The Llamicorn is super soft and the colours really feel like they just melt into each other and the stitch markers to match are just designed to bring a smile to your face.
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“Maybe knitware and sand aren’t a combination that instantly springs to mind…” – you couldn’t have phrased it better. I’m sure the Beach Boys weren’t picturing chicks in turtlenecks when they ‘wished they all could be California girls’! Beautifully photographed blog post – for a non-knitter like me, I was still very much engaged!
Thank you for your comment – that gave me a good laugh and glad you enjoyed the post. It’s very difficult to take bad photographs of California, the place is just so incredibly beautiful.
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From the 1st to the 7th of August, 2019, on the summer stage of the fortress Kanli Kula (“Bloody Tower”), located in the city of Herceg Novi (Montenegro), the Film Festival - Montenegro Film Festival 2019 will be held!
For over 30 years, the summer film festival “Montenegro Film Festival” is an important cultural event in Montenegro, in which representatives of various countries of South-Eastern Europe show their films and latest achievements in the film industry every year. The idea of the Montenegrin Film Festival, which today has a special status and bears great importance for the culture of Montenegro, was born in 1987, when the first Yugoslav Film Festival was held.
This year, films in four categories will be shown in several locations in the city of Herceg Novi: the full-length feature film - the competition and premiere program, the documentary film and the selection of student films in a separate competition program. During the festival will also be organized workshops on cinema and film.Organizers
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Their love and passion for music is what keeps them going and giving great music to the people. Tebogo J Ndala popularly known by his Stage name “Ethopian Chyld or Smol” and Manqoba Fikile Joshua Ngomane also known as Man Q started doing music at a very tender age. The two music lovers were born and bred in Soshanguve, Pretoria.
Ethopian Chyld was introduced to the music industry at the age of 8 years, he is a soulful, deep and Afrohouse producer and Dj. When he was 19 he started producing music and never released anything until 2015. In 2016 Ethopian Chyld established his own label called House Head Session.
Ethopian Chyld met aspiring sound engineer “Man Q” from his neighborhood Soshanguve in 2012. They have been working together ever since 2012, and never released anything until this year(2019). Man Q Started making live music as a vocalist in 2005 and later on in 2008 he started producing music. Man Q is a sound engineer graduate, he told Tsa Pitori that his qualification in popular music/sound engineering makes things easy in terms of mixing and mastering music to meet the industry standard in quality.
Ethopian Chyld and Man Q have an EP coming on the 20th of September 2019 titled “Colossal EP” it’s their first release together after 7 years of hard work and dedication. The two told Tsa Pitori that the EP consists of 3 tracks. The tracks are titled Serene (Original Mix), Median (Original Mix), Transcending (Original Mix), all 3 tracks are instrumental Deep House tracks. “On this EP we blended a bit of chord progressions and added synths to brighten up the mood of the songs. We were looking into mixing electronic with deep house and a bit of soul from the chord progressions”, the pair told Tsa Pitori.
Man Q and Ethophian Chyld were invited by Metro FM to talk about their new EP, they told Tsa Pitori that they decided to title their EP “colossal” because they saw it as something great and massive. “It actually describes the title of the songs in the EP whereby from track 1 to track 3, the titles represent time and period of which the human race travel throughout their journey”-they further expained.
The pair said you can’t be sure if fans will love your music, but you just have to make quality music and hope people vibe to it. So far people that have heard their music on Metro FM responded well to it and from the teasers of the songs they posted on their social media handles justice is done to their craft.
The two music producers told Tsa Pitori that they are going to produce more music for their fans and hopefully more events. They are yet to give the music industry something that it has never seen before. The EP will be available on all digital stores including ITunes, Google play, Traxsource and Bandcamp, and you can directly purchase it from them aswell.
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Kejriwal, who also demanded Khurshid's resignation from the Cabinet, announced his protest programme after a group of 35-40 disabled persons met him at his office here.
"Money bungling in the NGO floated by the Law Minister's wife is a matter of shame. It is unfortunate to have such Law Minister in the country.
"We demand resignation of the Law Minister and immediate arrest of his wife. We will gherao Sonia Gandhi's residence asking for Khurshid's resignation," Kejriwal said.
A Hindi news channel yesterday alleged that the NGO forged signatures of senior officials in several districts of Uttar Pradesh depriving disabled people of their money.
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Nothing gets bigger than 'Avatar: The Way Of Water' as the world's biggest motion picture is gearing up to take the world by a storm on 16th December. Usually, sequels take 4-5 years but James Cameron took a whopping 13 years to come with the second part of 'Avatar'. The great director is known for breaking all existing records whenever he releases his movie. Whether it is 'Terminator 2' or 'Titanic' or 'Avatar', James Cameron is the biggest director in the world.
'Avatar' came out in 2009 and it swept everyone off their feet. The visuals showcased in that film was never seen before and it took a film like 'Avengers Endgame' to break its record, that too in its second run at the box office showcasing the magic 'Avatar' created a decade back. The visionary director takes us back to Pandora world. 'Avatar: The Way Of Water' tells us the story of the Sully family, the troubles they endure, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they face. The visuals are nothing short of fantastic and Cameroon seems to have delivered another record-shattering film. The action sequences, the music, the production design, the acting and every aspect look jaw-dropping. The makers claim it as a 'Motion Picture Event Of A Generation'.
Speaking about the film, the renowned director stated that the movie needs 2 billion dollars to breakeven. Only after that, it will manage to get profits and he called it the worst business case in movie history. However, he did not reveal the movie's budget. Speaking about OTTs, he said that his movies originate from his dreams and the visuals in his dreams are too big for OTT platforms. He added that his dreams are his private streaming sites since he watches them freely every night.
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Two of the biggest sailing races in the world will be starting off from Cowes in August 2017 and 2018 as the Rolex Fastnet Race comes to town. The events are expected to bring huge crowds to the region and this is expected to boost business. The supporters of the various crews will need to places to stay and this will be good news for the nearby hotels while local sellers of various goods are also likely to receive a boost. A number of the visitors may also want to explore the island.
There will be around 400 boats lining up for the start of the event which will kick off on August 6th, 2017. This will be the largest number of entrants ever recorded in the 92 years that the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial classic 600 miler has been around. One of the contestants at the event will be Martin Westcott’s Swan 57 Equinoccio.
Westcott was the first Chilean to sail around the world through Cape Horn. The participation will mark 10 years since there was an entry from Chile at the event.
There will also be several youth camps competing at the event. Code Zero Racing is among these camps and it’s run by James Oxenham and co-captained by Harry Bradley and Owen Kinsella. This is a Cowes-based campaign that focuses on racing offshore and inshore. The crew are aged 17 to 22 and this will make them the youngest crew at the race this year. Code Zero Racing will be using the Reflex 38, Lightning Reflex owned by Geoff West. People will be expecting some great images from the crew since one of the people on board will be James Tomlinson, son of Rick Tomlinson.
In his Farr 60, Venomous, Derek Saunders from the Isle of Wight will be celebrating a major milestone while competing in this year’s race. This will be his 13th race and it will be coming 30 years after his first race as captain back in 1987. The race will start from the Solent on 6th August and head for Plymouth through the Fastnet Rock. The Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race will be kicking off a year later in August 2018.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club also announced that Sevenstar Yacht Transport will be remaining as the title sponsor for the most tactically challenging offshore race which comes every four years.

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Bullish market sentiment returned to its Tuesday's level of 74% (up from 71% yesterday). At the same time, the number of commands to sell the Aussie edged higher from 66 to 82%.


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TORONTO (Reuters) - Consumer confidence in Canada edged higher in July, marking its fifth consecutive month of increase, a new survey showed on Thursday.
The Conference Board of Canada’s index of consumer confidence climbed 0.8 points to 82.9 in July, fueled largely by an uptick in sentiment about major purchases such as a home or a car.
Forty-four percent of respondents said they felt that now was a good time to make major purchases, up 2.6 percentage points.
“The index now stands 12.7 points higher than it did at the beginning of the year -- perhaps indicating that consumers do indeed see a light at the end of the tunnel,” the Conference Board said, though it noted July’s move up was marginal.
The survey comes a day after government statistics showed a surprisingly big jump in Canadian retail sales in May as consumer confidence rebounded broadly on hopes of an economic recovery.
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Consumers were also pessimistic about their financial outlook. The number of respondents who said they believed their financial situation would improve over the coming six months fell 0.4 percentage points to 26.6 percent.
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Violinist Frank Almond has come out with an exciting new recording which I highly recommend. A Violin’s Life: Music for the ‘Lipinski’ Stradivari was released on April 19, debuting on Billboard’s Top Ten Classical list. Almond is the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and a faculty member at Northwestern University. He is accompanied by pianist William Wolfram.
Here is the interesting story of how the “Lipinski” Stradivari, one of the world’s finest violins, came into Frank Almond’s hands in 2008. A Violin’s Life celebrates this instrument by featuring music from its impressive history. The disk opens with the “Devil’s Trill” Sonata by Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), the violin’s first owner. Here is an excerpt:
Also included on A Violin’s Life is the rarely heard Violin Sonata No. 2 in F sharp, Op. 20 by Julius Rontgen (1855-1932), Caprice Op .29, No. 3 by the influential but largely forgotten violinist, Karol Lipinski (1790-1861) and Robert Schumann’s Violin Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.121. I found the Rontgen reminiscent of the Brahms Sonatas. The Lipinski Caprice is a daredevil virtuoso adventure in double stops.
A Violin’s Life can be found on iTunes and at Amazon. For listeners who are interested in delving deeper into to the history of this music and the “Lipinski” Strad, Frank Almond provides a website, aviolinslife.org. He introduces the CD and provides further samples here:
It’s widely believed that the sound of a violin can be influenced and shaped by the performers who use it. The rich lineage of the “Lipinski” Strad is on full display in this recording as the past meets the future. A Violin’s Life will be a fascinating and enjoyable recording for all who love the violin.

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Description: Word for Word Performing Arts Company stages an excerpt from Solis's book of fiction, "Retablos," followed by an interview of Solis and director Sheila Balter with Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Co-presented by Litquake and City Lights Bookstore and Booksellers. For ticket info: http://sched.co/FQRmNovember 3, 2018
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I received a review request for Escape from Witchwood Hollow from someone on author Jordan Elizabeth’s marketing team. I was intrigued by the premise, and so I happily agreed to receive a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
As the story begins in October 2001, Honoria has just moved to the small town of Arnn with her older brother, and her aunt and uncle. She has just lost her parents in the September 11th terrorist attacks, and her new guardians feel that it is in everyone’s best interest to leave the city and start anew upstate. They move into a historic home; her aunt dreams of converting their new abode into an inn, and Honoria starts school. Her new classmates tell her about the town folklore about the woods around the town, and how they are inhabited by a witch. People who have gone into the woods have remained last forever. After being dared/tricked into going into the woods by her new classmates, Honoria feels drawn to the woods wonders if the stories are true.
The story skips around various time periods, from a young woman in the 17th century, to a young woman in the 19th century, and then back to the present day. These subplots are even more fascinating than the main story, and help to provide the backstory. The witch’s origin story and her motivation are explored, and it’s a fascinating addition to the story.
I was a little distracted by the constant “name dropping” of clothing brands in the descriptions of what characters were wearing. It seemed out of place for the genre, where the brands were relatively unimportant to the overall story.
I would recommend Escape from Witchwood Hollow. This book will appeal to its target “young adult” demographic, as well as to fans of the genre.
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