Word: horror
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...English private school Hailsham. But something is definitely off. The teachers are afraid of the students. The students are afraid of the forest. And nobody wants to put into words just what exactly is going on here. Set in a creepy alterna-England, Never Let Me Go is a horror novel, but it's less about fear than it is about a deep, existential sadness that the world is such a horrifying place. By the time you learn the secret it's much too late: you've been drawn into this strange amalgam of science fiction and high literature...
...schools after only five to six weeks of summer training. Unsurprisingly, the evidence suggests that better training for corps members would benefit both teachers and students. A strong majority of TFA teachers manage to make it through their two years in the classroom, but just about everyone has heard horror stories about that friend or friend of a friend who didn’t make it to summer vacation. And poor training ultimately ends up under-serving the students who we are trying to help. Recent research out of Stanford has found that students taught by corps members...
...They even give Christina Ricci’s ridiculous sushi waitress voice-samples a counterpart robo-voice companion. Electronic highlanders Boards of Canada make “Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished, if a bit too long and slow. Anticon post-hoppers Subtle take the blues-horror of “Farewell Ride” into the urban jungle, and are smart enough to add some new vocals, in the most drastic remix strategy on the album. Homelife gets an honorable mention for having the balls to turn the guitar-crunch of “E-Pro?...
...cuts to the three protagonists waking up in Mick’s junk-yard residence, bound as his prisoners, the movie becomes intensely dark. Strings of bullet shots, chases through the desert, exploding cars, and intense silences make the film a heart-stopping thriller more than a gross-out horror movie. Additionally, McLean offers the American audience extraordinary footage of this vast and untamed area of Western Australia. Wolf Creek, a park at the top of a meteor crater, is one of the fantastic shots in the panoply of natural beauty the movie shows. The acting of the trio...
...Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra and Indonesia's Suharto may rarely have chosen to admit it, but their "economy first" strategy owes much to the intelligence of a Cambridge-educated lawyer who - he admits - was himself "distraught" when his island state found itself independent and alone. Above all, with their horror of chaos, luan, China's leaders have for three decades come to Singapore to listen, to learn, and to admire. Progress coupled with order and limited freedoms has been the maxim of those who have ruled China since Mao Zedong's death; it is a philosophy whose modern origins have...