Foreign Perspectives

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The American Witness Protection Program is all about hiding people who have a price on their head and sounds like an interesting premise for the series, In Plain Sight, starting tomorrow.

Not only do these people need a new place to live, they need a totally new identity which ain’t easy to come by these days. That ”new identity” means not just abandoning friends and family but cutting off all ties with them forever.

Stressful for the relocatees? Sure, but also for those that are doing the relocating as the series following Mary will show because, of course, she can’t reveal what her real job is to anyone else either without putting those in the programme at risk.

USA Network’s new original series In Plain Sight certainly sounds like it’ll be worth catching. In the meantime, why not see if you can find the photo here on the site?

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Look of the Year is basically a Miss World (or Mr Universe) for the online world.

However, there are a couple of important differences with this beauty contest… anyone who want to join can and rather than have some voting panel behind closed doors, your success is determined by people voting directly for you.

One indirect bonus of their approach is that you’re not necessarily thrown to the one side if you don’t win and might pick up a modelling contract if you’ve got the look that’s being sought by a model agency.
Winning categories are women/men  14-19 and women/men 19+ with a top 10 list coming out each month and the four overall winners being published on the 31st of December.

What are you waiting for? If you’re yound and beautiful, head on over to http://www.lookoftheyear.com for more information and to sign up.

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Frontiers was due to get an NC-17 rating for its “extreme sadistic gore and violence”. Rather than make cuts to the film to get an R rating, the producers decided instead to run without a rating which means that it’s been limited to a one week theatre release just prior to hitting the DVD shelves.

Does Frontiers deserve that extra bit of publicity?

Going by the trailer, it seems a little over the top to me which usually has the effect of dulling the effect of even very extreme violence but then trailers are usually a pretty poor way of judging films even when they do select typical scenes and when you’re aiming for a particular type of publicity for a film you don’t always select truly typical scenes of course. The short cinema release will intensify the attraction of course as films, and particularly scary ones, are never quite the same on the small screen.

If you’re looking for a scary movie, this is probably the best one to aim for at the moment but be prepared for queues as there’s a major league publicity campaign for this one aimed at maximising the take from that one week run. Bear in mind too that it’s only in “selected” cinemas so you might have to travel a bit if you want to catch it.

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