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Zero Dark Thirty PRE-review

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I always love hype before seeing a film. This film has been an intriguing and at most times controversial film seen by the press, especially American press. It seemed to me to be quite unbelievable that it even got made, what with secrecy when it comes to uncovering CIA operations. If you look at Argo  for example and the surrounding news stories about how much you can reveal when making a film about an undercover operation. Especially since this particular film subject focuses on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, with only two years having passed. The film was being filmed by Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal in 2011 about the attempt to find, capture and kill the most wanted man in the world, as it had been over 10 years since 9/11; when the news broke that the Navy SEALs had found, killed and buried the body of Bin Laden in the North Arabian sea. So with the film in progress of being made before Osama's death, the film had to stop and find out the rest of th

Post Oscar reaction

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S unday 24th February 2013 was Oscar night and arguably the biggest night in the movie business. Again being in Rishikesh I was unable to watch the show live, as I have done once in the past. Not only is it a tiring, long arduous watch, but, especially more so if the hosts that year are under par for example to mention a year James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted. Hathaway was doing her best but Franco just let everyone down. Being in a completely different time zone anyway, being 5 hours ahead of the US, you hope the jokes are good ones, a little bit rebellious and garners some oohs and ahhs from the celebrity filled audience, some cringe worthy jokes or shockers. McFarlane hosts 2013 Oscars T his year it was hosted by Family Guy creator and comedian Seth McFarlane, who you would think could be a controversial host who pulls the punches in his show as the Griffin family, attacking every racial class, sex, denomination etc etc. but at the Oscars you have to be conservative w