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 SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c
 Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair?
 Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform.
 SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam
 Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r
 Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p
 SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha
 Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in
 Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a
 SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for
 Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont
 Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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What do you think of the renaming and addition of regions and constituencies?

1. Long overdue

2. A waste of money

3. We have bigger issues

4. I don't care


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ENTERTAINMENT - CELEBRITIES | 2013-07-25
Don’t RSVP for ‘The Big Wedding’
Martha Mukaiwa

‘The Big Wedding’
The main thing about seeing movies is not to go to them because the title reminds you of something awesome.
In case you’ve made the not so subliminal connection and planning to see ‘The Big Wedding’ (2013) because it’s three words short of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ (2002), don’t. I say this because the implied awesome is an assumption that will cost you almost two hours of your life made dreary by a film that is just as lacklustre as its title.

In a yawn inducing clinging to type, the film features Robin Williams as an alcoholic priest, Diane Keaton as a divorcee, Robert de Niro as a protective parent, Topher Grace as a goofy virgin, Katherine Heigl as a hardass though secretly emotional professional and Amanda Seyfried on the brink of bride.

Susan Sarandon and Ben Barnes, just in from Narnia, make up the all star cast who will all launch into their same old schtick with such tautological torpor you will actually be momentarily intrigued by the gall.

The film which centres around an adopted Colombian son trying to impress his biological, conservative and Catholic mother by dressing up his comparatively heathen adoptive family for his wedding to a woman whose parents are not so undercover racists is based on a French film called ‘Mon frère se marie’ (2006).

However, the American version is probably much less exciting than a film that may or may not have featured profiteroles.

See this if you have absolutely nothing else to do in this life or the next. –

– marth__vader on Twitter or martha@namibian.com.na

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