What is Afghanistan like today? (Afghan Star reviewed)

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Afghan Star (UK, 2009)
Seen: Friday, 8th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 87′
Director: Havana Marking
Production House: Aria Productions, Roast Beef Productions, Redstart Media
Plot: A look at today’s Afghanistan through the Afghan version of “Pop Idol”.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
Probably the best film I’ve seen in terms of showing what life in today’s Afghanistan is like. It’s [...]

Dancing Birds

Sunday, 10 May 2009, 12:33 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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Meet Snowball, a parrot that enjoys dancing to the Backstreet Boys ;)

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Sunday, 10 May 2009, 12:30 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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A Lancashire design student figured she could make objects disappear by painting them right. Check it out - it’s quite amazing :)

Cartoonists on Barack Obama

Sunday, 10 May 2009, 12:17 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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The BBC asked three cartoonists from Afghanistan, Iran and Venezuela to sum up Obama’s presidency so far. Here’s what they came up with.

Yet another Half-Blood Prince promo clip

As much as I was complaining about there being too many trailers, I kind of like this one lol It’s different than the others cause it focuses completely on all the romance stuff and it looks rather hilarious. I love that they’ve pulled Dumbledore into it. There’s no scene in the books where Dumbledore starts [...]