Category Archives: Clippings
Aming’s X Appeal
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/07/24/aming%E2%80%99s-x-appeal.html The superhero tradition gets a radical makeover in a new movie, with its filmmakers squaring off against homophobia and conservatism in Indonesia today. Sara Veal Under a bright spotlight, a white-haired, black cat-suited superhero strikes a fierce pose, her … Continue reading
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Million Dollar Mom
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/23/million-dollar-mom.html Rebecca James never intended to be a writer. She spent her 20s experimenting, from teaching English overseas and waitressing to starting and stopping several university degrees. But she is being touted as the next big literary sensation. Sara Veal … Continue reading
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Don’t you forget about him
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/04/don%E2%80%99t-you-forget-about-him.html Sara Veal If you watch a Robert Pattinson film at the cinema, you have to be willing to tolerate the helpless gasping that is guaranteed to afflict at least a handful of audience members. So I was fully prepared … Continue reading
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Sparkling songbird lights up the stage
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/03/sparkling-songbird-lights-stage.html Sara Veal It may have been five years in the making, but Imogen Heap, who dazzled the crowds at the Jakarta’s Kartika Expo Center, Balai Kartini, on Wednesday, March 31, proved she was worth waiting for. The British multiple … Continue reading
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Turning the page on the Asian mystique
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/31/turning-page-asian-mystique.html Between the covers of countless books lurks a mystical creature with multiple masks. Submissive and beautiful. Cunning and domineering. Shy virgin. Adventurous lover. She is the Asian woman. Or rather what passes for her in fiction. Sara Veal lifts … Continue reading
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The dragon and his boy
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/28/the-dragon-and-his-boy.html Sara Veal The ongoing battle between 3D animation studios has two main contenders: Pixar and Dreamworks. Both can astound with cutting edge graphics and triumph at the box office, but so far, Pixar is ahead, emotionally and artistically. You … Continue reading
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Author Notes: Chris Cleave
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/28/author-notes-chris-cleave.html Sara Veal Chris Cleave has been a barman, a long-distance sailor, a teacher of marine navigation, an internet pioneer and a Guardian columnist. Now the 36-year-old is an acclaimed novelist, as well as a proud husband and father-of-three. Incendiary, … Continue reading
Sweet, stinging look at a swarm of issues
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/28/sweet-stinging-look-a-swarm-issues.html Sara Veal In this information age, we are all aware of the world’s horrors. Villages razed to the ground, in the name of oil. Starving, swollen-bellied children too frail to brush away the flies that feast on them. We’ve … Continue reading
Mona Sylviana: Challenging ‘Chick’-Lit
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/26/mona-sylviana-challenging-’chicklit’.html Sara Veal Think of women writers, and the phrase sastra wangi (fragrant literature or “chick-lit”) is likely to come to mind. Authors like Mona Sylviana aim to dispel such dismissive and sweeping stereotypes, and their non-chick-lit writings will be … Continue reading
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The little war movie that could
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/21/the-little-war-movie-could.html Sara Veal Reviewing a film that has just received the highest cinematic accolade is challenging. Then again, those good folks at the Oscars don’t always get it right, and often reward dreary, self-important “Oscar-bait” that we mere popcorn-munching mortals … Continue reading
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