Em março noticiamos que “Suspiria”, clássico de horror psicodélico do diretor italiano Dario Argento, pode ser refilmado nos EUA com o diretor David Gordon Green (Contra Corrente; Pineapple Express). Agora surge uma provável protagonista.

Segundo o site Bloody-Disgusting, Natalie Portman estaria confirmada no papel da bailarina e a companhia dela, Handsome Charlie Films, ficaria encarregada da produção.

O longa de 1977 acompanha - sob a lógica distorcida e surreal de um pesadelo - uma garota dos EUA (vivida por Jessica Harper no original) que chega em uma escola de dança de elite na Alemanha para estudar balé. Na verdade, a escola é só fachada para uma doentia reunião de bruxas. Destaque para a trilha da banda Goblin, que um ano depois assinaria a música de Despertar dos Mortos, de George Romero.

Muita gente considera “Suspiria” o melhor filme de Argento, além de Gordon Green já ter dito que “me procuraram para fazer uma ambiciosa e artística versão, o que pode render algo bem selvagem”. O que parecia bom está ficando melhor...

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Who would have thought that the bass player on Finders Keepers Sadie, The Cleaning Lady, an unassuming single released in 1968, would go on to assume legendary status amongst the rock faithful? Another band, and two albums later, and Glenn Hughes was hitting his stride. Medusa, from Trapeze, hinted at where this rock/funk three piece could take it, You are the Music...We're Just the Band released a year or so later fulfilled that promise. On the latter, Hughes is simply breathtaking. Handling ALL the vocals, he is unsurpassed. On Feelin' So Much Better Now, his three-part black chick chorus is pure En Vogue. His gutsy lead vocal soars to incredible heights on Loser, and emotes with raw soul on the classic Coast to Coast and Will Our Love End. The bass playing is blistering rock funk, a perfect foil for the late Mel Galley's rock solid guitar and Dave Holland's stylish syncopations. This band had it all. Small wonder then, that Hughes was poached by Deep Purple, and Trapeze soldiered on for a while until Galley was poached by Whitesnake, and Holland by Judas Priest.

Hughes fell foul of the drink and drugs lavished on him as a newly-crowned Purple rock prince. He still managed to turn in classic performances on Purple albums, and his first solo album Play Me Out, is astonishing. But, after a last gasp classic, Hughes/Thrall in 1982, containing one of the greatest funk rock riffs of all time on Muscle and Blood, Hughes plumbed the depths in his personal life. Somehow, he appeared on various albums for the likes of Gary Moore and Tony Iommi, but it wouldn't be until the 90's and his brush with death, that Hughes would finally get his life, and his career, back on track. But oh boy, has he made up for lost time! A string of fantastic solo albums followed, plus great rock albums with Voodoo Hill and once again with Tony Iommi.  His catalogue is of such a high standard, and so vast, its almost impossible to single anything out. Regular side men include Swedish guitarist JJ Marsh, and, as a perfect foil for the funk, the Chili's Chad Smith on drums. He is known variously as The Voice of Rock, the White Man's Stevie Wonder, but above all he's the funkiest mutha to take the stage.There is, quite simply no-one who can play bass and sing like this man. He stands alone.

On a personal note, he is pretty much the reason I've been a bassist/vocalist professionally for 30 years, and I've been lucky enough to meet him and tell him so. Listening to Deep Purple's Burn album, and Glenn's vocal and bass lines...it was like a light bulb going on in my head - so THAT'S what it's all about!

To paraphrase his old band Trapeze's album title YOU are the music, Glenn - we're just the fans.

RI.P. Mel Galley, guitarist with Trapeze, Whitesnake and Phenomena, who succumbed to throat cancer on July 1st. this year.

Recommended: Trapeze: You are the Music album, Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band, Glenn Hughes: Play Me Out, Feel, Soul Mover, Music for the Divine, F.U.N.K. Hughes/Thrall:Hughes/Thrall

Kev Moore

"The first printing was so scarce in London that Edward Enninful, the black Notting Hill-born Vogue fashion editor, who worked with Meisel to style the Naomi Campbell cover (one of three versions of the edition) was forced to scour the country for an issue. 'I couldn't believe it. I ended up phoning friends in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, who found one for me in a corner newsagent. I am so excited. I never thought I would be able to see something like this - my people, my race, wearing the collections, being gorgeous, chic, real women in that way. But the most important thing is: this proves we are bankable. We can sell.'"

You can say that again! Wooh!

"Conceived by editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani, and shot by Steven Meisel from a roster of 18 new, established and former stars, the July 'black issue' sold out in Britain on arrival. That renowned fashion photographer Steven Meisel, the recluse whose lens has made the career of many a model (including Brits Lily Cole and Karen Elson) should be focusing on non-white subjects might have been expected to cause some debate. A mild examination of conscience among the model scouts, agencies, casting directors and designers was privately anticipated, without much hope of anything changing - in the same way that the endless skinny-model debate has resulted in little or no change in the industry. But no one anticipated the global interest.

'It has been unprecedented, a sensation, although that wasn't the aim,' said Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International, who masterminded the reprinting and rerouting of unsold magazines in Italy to America and Britain. In America, the issue is shrink-wrapped and stickered with the words 'First Reprint. The Most Wanted Issue Ever'.

That is no hype, according to the Kenya Hunt, the young black style editor of Metro International News in New York. 'I've been watching the news-stands since the beginning. There are lines of women when they hear of a new shipment. It's a wide cross-section of women, girls, people my parents' age who read Ebony,' she said. 'There have been email chains about it. The news-stand guys are hustling, locking it up in the back and charging $25, $28, when the real price is $16. Yesterday, I saw it on eBay for $50. There is a climate shift. This is the year of the presidential election. And this at a time when magazine sales are really hurting.'"

More here peeps!

My post is here at Phenomena Authors *grin*

-- A portion of the sea of people Obama drew to listen to him speak in Berlin. Yes, I know. HOLY CRAP. Read the article HERE. Everyone is comparing it to Kennedy's iconic 1963 Berlin speech.  Find it HERE. And, because I consider it just as iconic, the speech where Reagan tells Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall is HERE.

Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Refuge in White: Winter in a Canadian National Park," December 2005, National Geographic magazine

A solar phenomenon known as a sundog arcs over the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Sundogs are fairly common occurrences in the Arctic and Antarctic. They form when the sun is near the horizon and ice crystals high in the sky line up in a way that bends the solar rays like a prism.

This is amazing, isn't it? So I continued searching:

A sun dog or sundog (scientific name parhelion, plural parhelia, for "beside the sun") is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two sun dogs can be seen (one on each side of the sun) simultaneously.

Sundogs typically, but not exclusively, appear when the sun is low, e.g. at sunrise and sunset, and the atmosphere is filled with ice crystal forming cirrus clouds, but diamond dust and ice fog can also produce them. They are often bright white patches of light looking much like the sun or a comet, and occasionally are confused with those phenomena. Sometimes they exhibit a spectrum of colours, ranging from red closest to the sun to a pale bluish tail stretching away from the sun. White sundogs are caused by light reflected off of atmospheric ice crystals, while colored sundogs are caused by light refracted through them. White sundogs are also thought to be caused by the light from the sun reflecting off of water on the ground and focusing the reflected light on the clouds above.

More info on the Wikipedia.

Anomolous Phenomena: Phenomena that science, in its present state of knowledge, is unable to explain.

Xenonormal: Infamiliar occurences that have a natural and rational explination.

Everyone is familiar with the word paranormal, but how many of the people who know the word actually know what paranormal means?

When a person experiences phenomena that they cannot explain, the phenomena seems to be classed as paranormal without a second thought. This however may not always be the case. Paranormal phenomena is an event or object that cannot be rationalised using the known rules of science.

However, every single individual walking on this planet today has a different range of knowledge than the next, and so the instant naming of anomolous phenomena as paranormal phenomena is often wrong. Just because the person who experiences the phenomena cannot explain what caused their experience it doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a natural cause for it.

Someone else - such as a paranormal researcher, might be able to point out exactly what the cause for the experience was.

The phenomena in question would then be classed as Xenonormal phenomena. Infamiliar occurences that have a natural cause.

Lets take an example:

Mr Bloggs is travelling home one evening when he spots four or five orange glowing objects in the sky above him. They are travelling in a straight line at the same speed and slowly just vanish from sight.

Instantly Mr Bloggs is unable to explain what they were. He knows they were not a plane, bird or any sort of aircraft as there was no noise and he has never seen anything like it before.

Mr Bloggs classes the anomolous phenomena he has just seen as paranormal phenomena because he cannot explain it - he thinks he has seen a UFO.

However, when he gets home later that night and excitedly tells his brother what he had seen on his journey home his brother shakes his head and informs him that a friend of his was having a party a few miles away and they were planning on letting some chinese lanterns off to start the evening.

My Bloggs didn't know about chinese lanterns and so classed the phenomena as paranormal, when infact it was xenonormal.

It is important not to jump ahead of oneself and label something as paranormal just because you cannot explain it. Rely on your peers who may have some knowledge from their past experiences or research - they may just surprise you with a valid explination.

Por mais que uma certa "física" que diz conhecer astronomia tentou desmentir-me diante dos órgãos de imprensa de MT, aqui está a comprovação de que o Eclipse do dia 16 será visível em nosso País.

A Lua nasce em Cuiabá  às 17h34m (Azimute=103°), ou seja, no meio do eclipse.

 Minerais encontrados no solo de Marte mostram que o planeta já esteve coberto por lagos, rios e outros ambientes hídricos capazes de abrigar vida, disseram pesquisadores dos Estados Unidos na quarta-feira (16). 

Em junho, a sonda Mars Phoenix Lander encontrou gelo na superfície marciana, mas o material está muito congelado e coberto de poeira vermelha. Em artigo na revista "Nature", um grupo de cientistas mostra que esse gelo é um resquício de uma época mais quente e úmida.

 "Isso é realmente animador, porque estamos encontrando dezenas de locais onde futuras missões podem pousar para tentar entender se Marte já foi habitável e, em caso positivo, procurar sinais de vida passada", disse John Mustard, participantes do estudo que trabalha na Universidade Brown. "Os minerais presentes na antiga crosta de Marte mostram uma variedade de ambientes úmidos", acrescentou Mustard.

  Cores refletidas

A equipe usou um equipamento chamado Crism ("espectrômetro compacto de reconhecimento por imagens para Marte", na sigla em inglês) e outros instrumentos da sonda Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter para avaliar as cores refletidas na luz do sol. Isso ajuda a determinar que minerais há ali.

 Os minerais argilosos precisariam ter sido formados a temperaturas relativamente baixas, disseram os pesquisadores. "O que isso significa para a habitabilidade? É muito forte", disse Mustard. "Não era um caldeirão tão quente, fervente. Era um ambiente benigno, rico em água durante um longo período." As conclusões se encaixam na análise da missão Phoenix Mars Lander, que, além de gelo, encontrou também solo alcalino, que poderia ter abrigado vida.

"A grande surpresa desses novos resultados é como a água de Marte foi impregnante e duradoura, e como os ambientes úmidos eram diversos", disse Scott Murchie, pesquisador-chefe do Crism no Laboratório de Física Aplicada da Universidade Johns Hopkins.

A Primeira foto tirada com a Webcan modificada. Cerca de 200x de aumento.

A máxima aproximação de Júpiter nos levou novamente ao destaque no G1 - Confira: http://g1.globo.com/VCnoG1/0,,MUL641914-8491,00-JUPITER+E+FLAGRADO+COM+MAXIMO+BRILHO+EM+CUIABA.html'

E no Diário de Cuiabá de ontem (08/07) primeira capa para Júpiter !

The company of friends is the best remedy after a long and tiring workweek. Mix in some alcohol and music and you've got the potential for a great night. There are, however, a few interesting phenomena that seem to occur during these nights. (I am the first to admit I've been guilty)

"I got you next time." This deceiving line can be used in many ways. You walk to a bar and realize there is a $5 cover charge. Run and hide from your cheap friends. They may offer to buy you a drink once you walk through the door, but don't let their half-assed attempt to make even fool you. Sometimes you are lucky and get the drink, but most of the time you don't. Gyros, cab rides, late night plumber calls to fix empty pipes... It comes in many forms and it is 100% unavoidable.

What about those outlandish plans for next weekend? Trips to NYC, gambling treks to Windsor, boogie boarding at Myrtle Beach!? People seem to forget they already have plans for next weekend altogether! Weddings, concerts, and bachelor parties all seem to be wiped from memories and datebooks BlackBerrys (Does the brand name change in plural form? BlackBerries?). The ideas are usually so good that you don't care what you have planed. Imagine what would happen if everyone kept those promises. I would be extremely tan and extremely broke.

I do my best to not keep tabs when stuff like this happens. Everyone I hang out with is extremely generous with what they have so it always ends up coming back in one way or another. A beer here, some food there, it always works out. And "next weekend" is always amazing, in Columbus or any other city, so I have no complaints there.

By the way, anyone got an extra ticket to see Juelz and Jim Jones this weekend? I got you next time!

(Thanks to Mickey and Andy for the amazing photo!)

I had always thought of the word differently: para as in parallel or a world or concept parallel to our laws of binding our physical universe.  I thought of paranormal as the research enveloping all things non-physical.  I'd still like to think of it as a science with the same approach to all things scientific - using hypothesis, conducting experiments, gathering evidence, conjecturing, debunking, etc.  

Poltergeist phenomena is my favorite.  Found in nearly all cultures and religious groups, the activity of the "noisy ghost" is widely reported and documented.  So are hallucinations.  And yet, a single poltergeist event can be witnessed/encountered by multiple people, so I put more validity into claims of this activity.  As a child, I experienced something that would be defined as poltergeist activity.  I don't feel silly admitting this because I believe strongly there is a valid explanation for these experiences.  

In my opinion, we don't have to believe in the supernatural, to better understand the paranormal.   In talking with people, I've found most have some story to share - even the skeptics - of something they just can't explain.  And yet, they all share a desire to find some explanation.

Modern day ghost-hunters invest a good deal of time and money into capturing evidence of paranormal activity.  Whether actual ghosts or residual energy, these pseudo scientists employee EMF meters to measure electric-magnetic fields, recording devices to record "EVPs" or electronic-voice phenomena, infrared and thermal cameras to measure and capture movements or sudden changes in temperature in a room and other tools to assist the investigators with seeing in the dark.  

When I first met a "ghost-hunter," I had a lot of questions and I wasn't very polite about asking.  Questions like, "Isn't hanging around grave-yards cliche?" or "Don't you think walking around houses in the dark is a good way to scare up experiences that might not occur in broad daylight?"  

These questions were quickly answered.  Graveyards tend to make people uncomfortable at night so investigators take new people there to see how they handle fear.  Okay, makes sense, but why the dark?  I was told this was the quiet time and it was more likely you would capture genuine activity than during the day.  There are just too many noises during the day and investigators prefer to turn off any unnecessary electronics to avoid EMF interference. Hence, dark places at night.

I'm actually more impressed than anything getting to know people who study ghosts on the side.  They're not crazy as I expected.  They're not charging people money to do bogus investigations.  I was told if someone charges for their work, beware.  Most investigators will do anything to discredit their own findings because they know these findings will be equally scrutinized by any skeptic.  Still, the fact remains, if you haven't experienced the paranormal, can you ever really believe it?

Then again, I've never seen a neutrino, but I am no less a believer.  

Dirigida por Edward Stone, catedrático de Física no Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos, a pesquisa está concentrada no estudo da heliosfera, que é uma espécie de bolha magnética criada pelo vento gerado pelo Sol e que envolve nosso sistema planetário.

Segundo os dados enviados pelo Voyager 2, a nave atravessou a fronteira do sistema solar em um local mais próximo ao sol do que o previsto, o que indica a existência de uma irregularidade na heliosfera.

Os cientistas deduzem que a nave saiu do sistema solar por uma grande deformação da heliosfera que poderia ser explicada pelo efeito de um campo magnético de caráter local que a atrairia em direção à estrela solar.

O Voyager 2 partiu da Terra em 1977 com a missão de estudar os planetas de Júpiter e Saturno. Após finalizar sua tarefa, a nave continuou viajando até sair do sistema solar, de onde continua enviando informações à Terra.

Atualmente, o Voyager 2 resiste em condições de frio e escuridão; diante da ausência de energia solar, a nave se alimenta de baterias nucleares que produzem energia ilimitada.

As informações são da EFE

Crop circles generally appear within 20 to 120 minutes. Scientists have examined the cellular structure of where the stalks are bent, and they are enlarged on a molecular level.

A noise can often be heard as the crop circle is formed.

Most of the crop circles in the world occur in one county (Wiltshire) in the UK.

The one thing people agree on is, "They are a form of intelligence".

These are all from http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/june2008.html

If you wanted to be in the midst of the annual crop circles, as they are discovered, there is no better place than the Barge Inn: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/Travelogue/bargeinn99.html

The news that scientists have said the North pole this summer may be Ice Free is now a few days old. However having seen the headline again, I'd like to comment.

North Pole may have ice-free summer
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:53:26

Leading American ice scientists say there is a fifty percent possibility that the North Pole will experience its first ice-free summer.

www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=61847&sectionid=3510208

What I wonder is Schauberger (an undisputed authority on water) said that rivers (in the Northern Hemisphere) when they get to the sea head north to the north pole to cool down. Water is always trying to reach its most dense state -4 degrees Centigrade.

Why do rivers flowing into cold seas migrate laterally to the north?

Victor Schauberger
http://merlib.org/mirror/frank.germano.com/viktorschauberger_2

This aspect (the rivers melting the pole) is never cited in ecology arguments. Our rivers must be warming up from industry. And I wonder how much nuclear energy heats up the water. The water cooling and steam generation from Nuclear Power is absolutely fundamental to its functioning.

More on Schauberger at his home page: http://www.pks.or.at
And here are some more of his statements, just to wet your appetite. And these are from the merlib.org link above:

RIVERS
Why do west-to-east flowing watercourses fertilize their banks?

Why are the banks of east-to-west flowing rivers so barren?

Why are the banks of south-to-north flowing watercourses fertile on one side only?

Why do rivers flowing into cold seas migrate laterally to the north?

Why do deltas and estuaries develop?

Why does a trout stand still in a raging torrent, as if by magic?

Why does a top stand upright when it is spun from the side?

I think most (if not all) of the above quotes are from the book Nature As Teacher part 2 Schauberger.

Besides his major cosmological idea of the constancy of the speed of light Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity also included another concept called the relativity of simultaneity. This second concept means that everyone experiences simultaneity differently from his or her own frame of reference.

As an example, someone walking through the streets of a city will experience new things successively. However, a person looking down at that same city from the top of a mountain will see all the things happening on its streets below simultaneously. The same thing happens when the person on a city street gazes upward at the mountain. He or she will see everything that is happening on top of the mountain simultaneously.

Amazingly, more than a hundred fifty years before Einstein’s famous theory, Emanuel Swedenborg had made use of these very same ideas of frame of reference and the relativity of simultaneity beyond mere observation of physical phenomena. He applied these concepts to describe the operations of the human intellect and spirit.

In his great work Rational Psychology (1742) he applies these very same concepts to discrete human cognitive functions, such as physical eyesight, memory and its imagination, rational thought, and finally, spiritual revelation. Each of these functions represents a distinct kind of “seeing” and function as distinct observers whose frames of reference come from different dimensions.

Therefore, information that had entered successively through a person’s eyes is seen simultaneously in the memory through its imagination (mind’s eye). The imagination can look upon all things of the memory in the same way someone can see everything down in the city from a mountain. From this higher vantage point (frame of reference) the relative simultaneous function of imagination can then combine things seen by the eye into more abstract combinations. This leads to ingenuity and creativity.

From a higher frame of reference, the rational mind can look simultaneously at all the things we have ever imagined and combine them into higher rational ideas – like ideas concerning justice and ethics. Whereas imagination abstracts things seen in the physical world, rational thought starts with the abstractions of the imagination. So rational thought takes us from worldly cleverness to acquiring the judgment of truth (which partakes of one’s character and life-choices). 

Above the cognitive function of reasoning and judgment, there is another “observer” with an even higher frame of reference. This higher, spiritual mind can simultaneously observe all our best reasoning and from its greater vantage point recognize universal and eternal truths.

So in Swedenborg’s multi-level theory of cognitive function, we are given examples of the relativity of simultaneity operating beyond the spacetime continuum and representing discrete mental functions operating in different dimensions.

However, in order for a higher mental function to operate simultaneously relative to a lower one (like between imagination and reasoning), speeds of operation and signal transfer must even surpass the velocity of light. This insight will someday change our whole outlook on the causal structure of space.

In my next book, Proving God, I will show that Swedenborg added new constants and invariables to cosmology, which generate the layered scaffolding of reality. This top-down order manifests in both the discrete structure of space and the hierarchical structure of the human brain and mind.

From these ideas I hope to show the way to a correct theory of quantum gravity, which includes metaphysical assumptions about the nature of reality. 

Over the years, I stopped trying to figure it out. Stopped asking, "Why?" I just gave in and dealt with it. I still wondered, though, why this strange phenomena was only affecting men, and not women? At least, no woman I had ever known had been affected by this.

So, yesterday, I was in the kitchen and I saw the answer with my very own eyes. There I was, having just finished doing all the dishes. I was admiring my clean kitchen, my now empty sink. And then it happened. My boyfriend walked into the kitchen, with a plate in his hand. He stood in front of the sink. Plate in hand, his arm hovered over the sink. At this point, it was like time took on a slow-motion quality. I watched him struggle to put his arm down, therefore laying the plate in the sink. But he couldn't do it! It was like something was stopping him! Then I saw his arm slowly move to the left of the sink, where he proceeded to set the plate down on the counter. I looked at him, looked at the plate, looked at the sink. And that's when it hit me. There was an invisible force-field over the sink!! Upon my realization, time sped up to normal again, and I looked at my boyfriend. He turned to me, smiled, and walked out of the room. He didn't know! I thought to myself. I waved my hand over the sink a few times, trying to feel anything. But feeling nothing there. Perplexed, I backed up and watched the sink. If there was some kind of mysterious energy field there, I just had to be able to see it, or feel it, somehow. But still, nothing.

I left the kitchen and went to sit at my desk, deep in thought. My mind raced back through the years, seeing all over again the men I had known who had been afflicted by this. It all made sense! This force-field only affected men! But WHY?! I have yet to figure out that answer, but maybe one day I will. Or maybe some brilliant scientist will, and she'll share it with the world. I looked over at my boyfriend, debating on whether or not to tell him about my discovery. But I hesitated. In all his life, he'd never questioned the force-field himself. Maybe he didn't want to know. Maybe he thought he was the only one. I decided against telling him. But then I wondered if I should tell my son! Maybe I could help my son before it was too late! But, no, it had already hit him, too, hadn't it? I saw it myself. My grandson - he's only 2! Surely, this mysterious thing can't have affected him already. I needed to call my daughter and inform her! So I did. "Mom," she said sympathetically, "I already know about the force-field. And you're too late. Your grandson has already been infected. I'm doing everything I can to reverse it, but it doesn't seem to help." I hung up the phone and sat there, thinking.

What's a woman to do? I thought. I came up with the only conclusion I could find. To just not say anything to the men in my life, for fear of upsetting them. Breathing in deeply, I resigned myself to helping these men. I vowed that from that moment on, whenever a man in my house couldn't put his dirty dish in the sink, and had to set it on the counter instead, I would keep my silence. I would just pick up the dish and set it gently in the sink. For mankind, I would do that. I stood up and walked into the kitchen. Letting out a tiny sigh, I picked up the plate and set it in the sink. I walked back into the livingroom, kissed my boyfriend lightly on the cheek, and went about the rest of my chores.

I wanted to share this discovery of mine with all the rest of the women out there. For those that don't already know about the force-field. You can try to do what you will to change it, but I fear that there truly is no hope. If any woman out there has any suggestions to a cure, please do let me know!

Phenomena

This movie takes a while to get going, but its worth it for the last 20 minutes. If this isn't Jennifer Connelly's first big screen role, it's got to be close. Donald Pleasence plays bug expert that's a cross between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Professor X. Connelly plays a young a girl with the power to control bugs. This actually comes in handy when your using insect behavior to catch a killer. Again, the best parts don't come until the end, but we do get some pretty good scares if you can wait for them.

Trauma

Wow, there's some dark stuff going on here. This has to be one of the few horror films that deals with Anorexia.

Like most Argento movies, it runs about 10-15 minutes too long, and there's a false ending that just seems to go on forever until we have the real climax. Still, if there was an award for most disturbing motive for a killer, this would win. Asia Argento is pretty good in this, and even has a sex scene that I have to assume was directed by her dad... ewwwww!

Tenebre

For some reason, I never consider Argento's films to be overly gory, but Tenerebre actually has quite a bit of the red stuff. 

The tale of a killer copying murder scenes from a book has everything I want from Eurohorror: Blood, gratuitous nudity and bad dubbing. I must admit, the ending is ridiculously convoluted, but, did I mention gratuitous nudity?    

Do You Like Hitchcock

You know, I kinda enjoyed this. It probably would have been better served as a 60 minute Masters of Horror episode. Still, there was enough boobs and blood to keep me happy. Probably helps I actually am a Hitchcock fan

The Card Player

A killer forces the police to play video poker for the lives of kidnapped women.  Once the card playing stops, the killer resorts to some SAW like death traps.

One problem with The Card Player is video poker, even with lives at stake, is about as suspenseful as watching someone play Qbert. If Do You Like Hitchcock would have made a good Masters of Horror episode, then The Card Player would have been at home on the network friendly Fear Itself as there is little blood or nudity.  Not as bad as I'd heard, but definitly the weakest film of the set.

There is no denying the fact that in the English Legal System, the constitutional rule of the judiciary is providing to apply law; the purpose of creating law is the prerogative of parliament. This is because one of the aspects of legal reasoning and one which also raises question as to the political persuasion of the judges and the scope they have to exercise that persuasion in their decision in the manner in which they interpret the legislation when they are called upon to do so. However this simplistic view ignores the extent ignores the extent to which the judges have a measure of discretion and the creative power in which they interpret the legislation.

Reputing the notion of parliamentary sovereignty, the first approach will to be adopting the literal approach. Interpretation under this approach demands that made should be given their ordinary simple meaning as far as possible even if the strict literal interpretation may result in injustice and hardship to the literal interpretation. This is because it was felt that the judges will tern into legislation, if for example he added words to a statute in order to achieving result the parliament would have preferred at the time of passing the legislation in question. For over past 100 years the literal approach is the primary tool of the interpreting the legislation. It was believed to be dangerous for the judges to become partners in the process of declaring law because of the unrepresented and unaccountable character of the judiciary. The literal approach has maintained the impartiality of the judges by directing criticism of the bad law to the parliament. It has given the judiciary a stability function ratter than a reforming one.

Although the literal approach is regarded as the humble servant of the parliament, the humble posture is misleading. Same argue that the literal approach is always wrong as it amounts to an abduction of responsibility by the judges. The literates bases his decision on one arbitrarily preferred meaning rather reason and principle (Whitely V Chappell). The literal approach is even though applicable by the judges’ even if the result inflicts hardship on the litigants. ‘Manifest Absurdity’ is the only exception where a canon employed by the literal approach namely golden rule act as an unprotect able safety value which helps the court to bypass the literal rule. The shortcoming of this rule was highlighted in the case of (R V Magginem). However, the courts are not at liberty to use the Golden rule and must find genuine difficulties before it declines the literal rule in famous of the Golden rule. This rule is its narrow application modifies the literal rule to the extent that an alternative meaning is construed which achieves consistency with rest of the statute by the discretion of judge (R V Allan). Assuming that the result of literal approach in the interpretation of the given statute conflicts with the public policy then the broader application of the Golden rule may be applied in order to intervene the adoption of an adenovirus interpretation. There has been judicial reluctance to use the golden rule both in its narrow and broader application in Northman V Barnet London Barough Council. However, Lord Denning, ‘whether a strict interpret ate of a statute give rises to an absurd and inju8st situation, the judges can and should use then good sense to remedy it.’

However, if the result of the interpretation (applying the literal rule) is ambiguous, then departure from the literal rule may be accomplished under the ‘Mischief rule’. This rule originated from the Hey dos case where guidelines were setout for the courts to follow in order to apply it:-

• What was the common law before making of the act?
• What was the mischief for which the common law did not possible?
• What remedy for the mischief the common law has intended to provide?
• What was the reason for the parliament adopting the remedy?

These rules enable the court to search for the intention of the parliament by looking at the history of the act in question.

Denning J said, ‘We sit here to find out the intention of the parliament and me do this better by filling in the gaps and making sense of the enactment than by opening it up to destructive analysis. If a gap is disclosed remedy has in amending it.’ He further said, ‘Judicial activism can not amount to a make usurpation of legislative function under the disguise of interpretation.’

If the intention of the parliament can not be found through the mischief rule, then in order to remove the ambiguity the judge is entitled to refer to the Hansard. In the landmark decision of Pepper V Hart, the House of Lords held that, then is no larger abjection of principle to the use of Hans and as an external aid to statutory construction and there were endorsement of a mere purposive approach under which a judge can label by and the literate approach and can discern the parliaments true intention. Regarding the use of Hansard, Lord Bramen Wilkiman believed, provided the court keeps a tight control to the situation where reference to the parliamentary motive one allowed it would be fruitful. But the Attorney General thought, it would be unwise to attach importance to the menstrual explanation which are made to satisfy political requirements after under the presence of time and business. Although reference to Hansard has been taken in the cases like Knowles V Liverpool City Council and LBC Forest V Thomas the reference of it increases the expenses of the litigation. Thus it will really be unwise to use Hansard as an aid to statutory construction.

The UK promulgated such law because a member of European Union by the enactment of the European Community Act 1972, as a result of the treaty the English Judges has to adopt the decision of the ECJ. The judges of ECJ used a very broad and generous approach in the interpretation of the statutory namely the ‘Teleological approach’ revalued by the Continental Lawyers which operates in loosely drafting codes of law which openly invites the judges in the process of framing the law. SarLand V British Railway Engineering, Lord Diploach defended the new approach on the ground that it has introduced a new rule of statutory interpretation requiring a UK court to can true all the domestic legislation in a manner ready European obligation as it has been stated in Sec.2 (4) of the EC Act 1972 that it takes precedent over the domestic law Sec.2 (1) of the Act states that, Treaties and other directly enforceable Community Legislation will be incorporated will no further domestic action. In Sec.2 (2) powers has been provided to the judges to incorporate other community legislation such as ‘Directure’