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Ice Age 3 : Dawn Of
The Dinosaurs
Genre: Animation Rated: PG
In Cineplex: 2 nd July 2009
Synopsis: After the events of “Ice Age:
The Meltdown”, life begins to change
for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still
on the hunt to hold onto his beloved
acorn, while finding a possible romance
in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named
Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since
become an item, are expecting a baby,
which leaves Manny anxious to ensure
that everything is perfect when his
baby arrives.
G I JOE
Genre: Action Rated: PG-13
In Cineplex: 7 th August 2009
Synopsis: Director Stephen Sommers
(The Mummy, Van Helsing) adapts the
beloved Hasbro G.I. Joe toy line with
this Paramount Pictures production
that pits the Global Integrated Joint
Operating Entity against the evil
forces of the organisation known as
Cobra. Dennis Quaid and Channing
Tatum star as General Hawk and Duke
Hauser.
Surrogates
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Rated: PG-13
In Cineplex: 25 th September 2009
Synopsis: FBI agents (Bruce Willis
and Radha Mitchell) investigate the
mysterious murder of a college student
linked to the man who helped create a
high-tech surrogate phenomenon that
allows people to purchase unflawed
robotic versions of themselves - fit, good
looking remotely controlled machines
that ultimately assume their life roles
- enabling people to experience life
vicariously from the comfort and safety
of their own homes. The murder spawns
a quest for answers: in a world of masks,
who’s real and who can you trust?
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My Sister’s Keeper
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9781439157268
Publisher: Pocket
RM32.90
‘A major decision about me is being made, and no one’s
bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it
to speak her opinion.’ The only reason Anna was born
was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister.
And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age
thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions,
and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the
leukaemia that has plagued her since she was a child.
Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her,
which is why they love her even more. But now that she
has reached an age of physical awareness, she can’t help
but long for control over her own body and respite from
the constant flow of her own
blood seeping into her sister’s
veins. And so she makes
a decision that for most
would be too difficult to
bear, at any time and at
any age. She decides to
sue her parents for the
rights to her own body.
BOOK
REVIEWS
Map of
The Invisible
World
Author: Tash Aw
ISBNs: 9788172238261
Publisher: HarperCollins
RM64.90
From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Costa
Award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an
enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent
and often frightening world. 16-year-old Adam is an
orphan three times over. He antd his older brother,
Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children;
he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by
a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the
Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers
during Sukarno’s drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its
colonial past. Adam sets out on a quest to find Karl,
but all he has to guide him are some old photos and
letters, which send him to the colourful, dangerous
capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly
carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out
of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his
helpless, trusting brother.