Chanel has recently released a new advert as part of the chapter 18 of their famous ‘Inside Chanel’ campaign. What is particularly interesting in this campaign is that not only the main film features the story of Gabrielle and invites for emancipation and the freedom of choice of women, but Gabrielle’s bags are also shown […]
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New book by a group of European scholars discusses what constitutes excellent communication. Communication Excellence: How to Develop, Manage and Lead Exceptional Communication has been published by Palgrave (see here) recently, and the authors are Ralph Tench, Dejan Vercic, Ansgar Zerfass, Angeles Moreno, and Piet Verhoeven The book is a result of 10 years of the
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Director: Steven Brill Rating: 3/5 Adam Sandler keeps returning with fake voices that irritate viewers who have to ask why was that necessary. This is the case in his new release, Sandy Wexler. Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler) is a talent manager who hunts potential talents, but unlikely for others he genuinely cares and promises he
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Availability: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: Damien Chazelle Rating: 5/5 I finally watched La La Land. At first, I was saying to myself that the reason why this film received so many Oscars and Golden Globes is beyond me. But, as the film progressed I realised I was thinking this only because I am not really
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The next book I just finished from lovely “SaveTheCulture Initiative is Jane Smiley’s “Ordinary Love and Good Will”. I read edition from 1998 only entitled “Ordinary Love”. It is not a novel that has one story line, but a combination of two books in one, both with a similar theme: family and everyday life. You
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Riverdale is a new Netflix series, with 10 episodes broadcast by now. The new episode will be broadcast on 28th April (episode 11). At first, I thought it is a typical teenager series with one beautiful girl bullying everyone else due to her beauty and money. However, this series is much more than that, for
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Netflix has recently implemented a new system of programme matches, i.e. when you look at the programme in an attempt to decide what you want to watch it gives you a percentage that indicates whether that programme matches what you normally watch and like. I was sceptical about it at first, but it actually works
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Director: Charlie McDowell Rating: 2.5/5 Imagine if there was a scientific evidence that afterlife exists. What would you do? You would possibly face an ethical choice of considering to end your life and head towards a better one, or you would enjoy your time on Earth more knowing there is something out there for you.
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New series from Netflix provides a brilliant insight into a mind of a broken teenager and circumstances that brought to her suicide. As I have written in my previous blog (see here), “the series portrays a life of a high school girl Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) who committed a suicide. Hannah experienced some of the
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Release Date: 31 March 2017 Venue: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: Rupert Sanders Rating 4/5 This film is certainly not a waste of time for it has something for everyone, i.e. some good action, as well as some thoughtful comments on humanity. In the near future, humans are able to upgrade themselves with robotic features to
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13 Reasons Why is a new series on Netflix. It has 13 episodes and I just finished the fifth one (within the same day, as this is not a series one can easily let go). Needless to say, I will be doing a speedy watching of this series. As the series is quite powerful it
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