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Saw XXVII: The Long Yawn. It's the year 3000, messages from a forgotten character who called himself Jigsaw (yawn) have been unearthed. People have been found after suffering unnecessarily painful and bizarre deaths (yawn). The authorities believe Jigsaw has managed to find another disciple even in this time... You know though I came up with this sketchy plot, the always money-hungry Hollywood execs could easily come up with something similar. It´s amazing that they took this concept and stretched it out to make seven films. Make no mistake, though I don´t like gory movies I enjoyed the first installment of Saw because there were some interesting elements in it. One was this aged man who happens to harbor a dementially sadistic imagination and decides to take revenge upon those who didn´t help him with his disease or mocked him. He also wants to teach them a lesson in the process, a lesson which if learnt correctly could mean the salvation of the victims he chooses. It ´s so o

This is one conversation out of the many I have with my students, day in and day out. T: What is that on your desk? S: Oh, erm... I´m working Mister, really. T: That doesn´t look to me like the Language B book. S: Oh! That book...I have it in my backpack... T: So, why don´t you take it out of your backpack and begin to work? S: Oh, yes Mister, of course, Mister. T: Still you haven't answered my question. S: Oh that... T: I told you already: Math class is over. Put that calculator away! S: Oh, it´s no calculator, Mister. T: What is it then? S: It´s a hmm, it´s a smartphone. T: Wonderful! Listen X, I can tell the difference between a smartphone and a calculator. This one has numbers, algebra symbols, even algorithms! S: So, Mister...maybe that´s why they´re called SMARTphones!

Meet Dr. Martin Harris. After arriving in Berlin with his wife, he alone suffers a car accident. Four days later, he awakes in a hospital; his documents, lost; his memory a blur and no one, not even his own wife, seems to remember him. Is he the victim of some sick joke? The truth is actually even worse than that. "Unknown" is a roller coaster with its ups and downs, never boring though. A must-see, already in DVD, with the usual extras and of course the acting of the always consistent, and overwhelming, Liam Neeson

Reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a wonderful experience. It’s one of those novels that leaves you with the impression you were in some roller coaster, meaning it has its ups and downs. Characters for one thing are really flat; most of  them are one-dimensional such as Nelly one of the narrators of the story (it is told in third person through some of the characters) who is kind and patient, or the main character himself, Heathcliff, who is greedy and revengeful for no apparent reason. The strong points are in the plot itself, full of surprises, and the dialogs which perfectly capture the spirit of each of the characters. Though it’s not a love story Wuthering Heights is about a love story. Truly, it’s the story of how the members of two families become pawns of Heathcliff, a man who is cold, calculating but at the same time immensely driven by his love for Catherine Earnshaw who in turn loves him, and yet such love is doomed to never be consummated, not at least in this

If you haven't seen Tron The Legacy well...you should, but see it in 3D. It's a movie made to impress your eyes. It begins in our world with the son of the creator of an alternate reality following the clues that will help him find his father who has been lost for years. It turns out this man's father created a video game that is much more than that: it's another reality that can be accessed by others, not only his creator, and inadvertently the young man enters that reality called The Grid and his adventure to locate his father within The Grid begins.  There are other aspects equally remarkable, details  as in the scene where the main character steps in his lost father's office and just then you get to listen to the immortal "Sweet Dreams" (the Eurythmics version). The acting is all right and the story is consistent and well-paced though nothing astounding. The good thing is you don't need to have seen Tron, the first installment, to understand wh

Before the X-men ever existed there were only mutants. What drove Xavier to believe in a world where humans and mutants could coexist harmoniously? What made his best friend oppose that dream and thus become Xavier’s greatest enemy?  If you want to watch a good superhero movie then this is a good pick. It can be found in the DVD format already with extras that include scenes that were never seen in the movie, and there is one in particular that deserves attention: when Xavier and Magneto are looking for mutants to recruit and they go to a nightclub. You´ll be able to see Michael Fassbender, the actor that appears as a young Magneto, dressing as a drag queen!  Chronologically speaking this is also a good point to understand the X-Men  since it is supposed to be the first of the series. Then you could continue with Wolverine: Origins and then X- Men I, II and III. This film also answers the question of how the X-men came to be, why Magneto came to the conviction mutants are a supe

Y podría llegar a serlo si juega sus cartas bien. Por ahora pareciera estar sondeando el terreno. Está de acá para allá, llegando de improviso a barrios pobres para ver cómo le reciben. Le conocen poco. Es por ahora sólo un ex-banquero con ambiciones.  Por supuesto desde ya cuenta con un gran apoyo marcado por todos los sectores de derecha que odian a Correa. Es tal vez el rival a temer y probablemente ya los asesores del reyezuelo se lo han hecho ver. Las elecciones del próximo año van a ser interesantes con candidatos conocidos que no quieren entender lo estúpido de su persistencia y con nuevos que sólo buscan una notoriedad que les durará cinco minutos. Ahí estará Noboa quién sueña con suceder al reyezuelo aún cuando se arriesgue a una derrota más. (¿La cuarta? ¿la quinta? Ya perdí la cuenta). Ahí quiere estar también  el auto-exiliado quien incapaz de creer en la capacidad de su propio hijo aún apuesta por sí mismo como si ya estuviera cansado de jugar en los casinos y de toma