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BEST FILMS – DUBAI FILM FESTIVAL

And my favourites from the Dubai Film Festival were : The Descendants It was difficult to categorise this film, yes it was funny in a cool way, but a key part of the plot is mum lying in a coma, the film doesn’t dwell at all on the issues surrounding the need to turn off the machines keeping her alive, but rather on all the problems she caused while conscious in her role as wife and mother. Set in Hawaii, you can almost feel the balmy breezes on your face while watching this film and the fresh, tropical lushness of the flowers and foliage is

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INTERNATIONAL MOVIES AT DIFF

For one week Dubai plays host to a fantastic International Film Festival. This year the date’s are from the 7th to the 14th of December. There are in total 171 films from 56 countries. 46 are World Premieres. There is a Cinema of the World section and a funky Midnight Mayhem selection of late night chillers. I liked the sound of Kill List, a British thriller produced by Ben Wheatly, that starts at a minute to midnight on December the 8th at Emirates Mall. We bought tickets to the World Premiere of Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, a Bollywood extravaganza with

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NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK: KENYA

The Nairobi National Park is about a 20 minute drive from Nairobi airport slightly to the South of the city. It’s an ideal way to experience a taste of life in the bush without having to buy expensive internal flights to the Masai Mara and pay quite steep lodge rates. Having said that you’ll save money entry fees to the park are not cheap. It costs US $ 40 (AED 150)  per adult and US $ 20 (AED 75) for children aged between 3 and 18 if you’re a non resident. Children aged 2 and under are free. However this

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BOLLYWOOD MOVIE IN DUBAI : DELHI BELLY

Fancy a Bollywood Movie in Dubai? Well, Aamir Khan’s much hyped Delhi Belly was released this week and Dubai’s Mirdiff City Centre’s 7pm Saturday show was packed. We got some of the last seats in the 2nd row from the screen. Interestingly the film was rated an 18+ here in Dubai, but was a 15 in the UK. Well, seeing is believing but if it were named Carry on Farting you’d have a clearer idea of what the film was about! A comic caper with a thin storyline that isn’t clever or that funny (to me) but nonetheless is brilliant

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STUDY TIPS AND TARGET SETTING

It’s not that children (and many parents) don’t know about the following study tips, it’s good to be reminded and get significant influencers of your children (friends, teachers, grandparents to reinforce these ideas) often hearing them from mum (again) is like water off a duck’s back ! You could try to get your school to incorporate some or all of them into targets that can be followed up at a later date. Improved handwriting, most of the gcse coursework, exams and internal school tests still require students to write with a pen and not type. Make it easier for the

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