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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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REEL NEWS - | 2013-08-09

Watch The Wolverine

Martha Mukaiwa

The Wolverine

The fact that woman all over the world will get to see Hugh Jackman starkers a mere 15 minutes into ‘The Wolverine’ (2013) already ensures that the latest film from the Marvel stable is going to get rave reviews.

This coupled with a refreshingly exotic locale and a much appreciated update about the whole “I killed Jean Grey” situation does much to revitalise a franchise that has since suffered the snafu of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ (2009) and only just returned to form with ‘X-Men: First Class’ (2011).

Though lone spin-offs from originally ensemble films can be a little tricky, Jackman does his broody best as the immortal and adamantium enhanced Wolverine we have come to know and lust after while carrying a film filled almost entirely with unfamiliar faces.

With no Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Xavier or Magneto, ‘The Wolverine’ seems to further remove itself from the familiar by being set primarily in Tokyo.

However, instead of being a roaring bore sans the menagerie of mutants, the film offers a refreshing redemption and minor love story that dials back on destruction and delves into Wolverine’s inner demons. And some origin story.

That’s not to say you won’t wish you can PVR a particularly epic fight scene atop a bullet train or that action sequences featuring Wolverine’s new sidekick, Yukio, don’t entirely amaze. They do.

They are also sagely interspersed within an arch that begins with the bombing of Nagasaki and deftly navigates its way through what is essentially a chase and salvation story with a bit of Yakuza ninja antics and the requisite cartoony denouement one would expect from a comic book film near the end.

Stay seated for a post-credit scene and, after you’ve enjoyed the much anticipated return of everyone’s favourite X-man, be excited that ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ is coming soon. In 2014. What? It’s already August. The awesome is on its way.

The Wolverine is now showing at Ster-Kinekor.

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