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Fear of a black climate - toxic sap and Severed

01 December 2008 | 9:55 - By Miguel D'Souza

SBS gets it hands sticky with evil green sap while the planet becomes Freddie in the all-new eco-horror genre.

SBS is doing a nice line in scaring its viewers shirtless lately, with The Shining to be followed this Monday by the Canadian eco-horror flick Severed. And like the Shining, this environmental video nasty reinforces the idea that the very place we dwell is what is coming to get us.

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Scary Kubrick comes Shining through

17 November 2008 | 12:13 - By Miguel D'Souza

Amongst Stanley Kubrick's many, many achievements and first is The Shining's status as "one of the scariest movies of all time.

Amongst Stanley Kubrick's many, many achievements and first is The Shining's status as "one of the scariest movies of all time.

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Kubrick season: Six degrees from Obama

06 November 2008 | 12:05 - By Miguel D'Souza

Aside from weeks when idealistic, energetic and quite appealing new political faces get elected to power in large democracies, Kubrick Week on SBS is always one of my favourites.


Nazi Fridays are a great example of how our national ethnic and multicultural broadcaster, SBS, can get its hooks into a theme and really run with it. So when SBS turns its attention to the films of Stanley Kubrick, you know you are in for a cinematic treat.

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Hey true blue - Victory fans flag the obvious

27 October 2008 | 13:59 - By Miguel D'Souza

A ridiculous spat over a flag that would have brought Australia's struggling A-League all the wrong sorts of headlines has been nipped in the bud.


A ridiculous spat over a flag that would have brought Australia's struggling A-League all the wrong sorts of headlines has been nipped in the bud.

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There's a story related in Roots author Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X (yes, I know, it probably should have been called a biography), that the civil rights champion used to open his speeches with the following riddle. "What does a white man calla black man with a Phd?". The answer? "Nigger".


Now that the US Presidential election has entered its killing zone, where smear, commentary and fiction take the place of fact and reporting as the expression of the US voter's intentions, Obama's skin colour has become the unspoken talking point of the poll. Or as Time's Michael Grunwald put it, using that most contemporary of cliches: "Race is the elephant in the room of the 2008 campaign".

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The coincidence in the anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind and a primary school's performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit was too much for a wannabe punk rocker to ignore.


Hard to believe it was 17 years ago today that Nirvana released Nevermind, though you only need to check with 18-year-old Spencer Elden, who posed as the little baby floating toward a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana's 1991 album.

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The future: online and ready for you

04 September 2008 | 10:44 - By Miguel D'Souza

Now that the Beijing Games are over and you're back to watching Nazi Friday nights on SBS-TV, you might want to reflect on what a golden opportunity the Olympics was to open up a society as closed as the People's Republic to the scrutiny (well, what was permissable) of the world's media.


It also allowed some boffins to pursue a particularly ambitious project: to observe what happens when a heavily-populated industrial giant like China flicks the off switch on emissions from its many factories, industries and citizens.

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Am I a hot Beijing Olympics athlete or not?

19 August 2008 | 15:05 - By Miguel D'Souza

Sex sells everything, apparently. Even single-party states which suppress human rights and clamp down on free speech. I've been utterly freaked out by the parade of flesh that is the Olympic Games. The values I learnt studying Arts in the 80s means I am troubled. But I like it.

Alright. I'll make the call. These Oly mpic Games have had about as much as atmosphere as suburban shopping centre when the shops are closed and the cleaners and security guards are walking the floors.

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Miguel D'Souza is a journalist, new media editor and a seasoned hunter of blog content from the wilds of the internet.

 
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