A BLIND girl getting cornea transplants from a suicide victim seems like a great idea for a horror movie and, for the most part, this film begins quite well with some rather interesting plot and character developments.

The audience is cleverly drawn into the newly illuminated world of Wong Kar Mun. We see what she sees, but we know something is not quite right.
Once Mun figures out the things she sees are not necessarily what is there, the chills tend to taper out.

The film takes a sharp turn and becomes more of a mystery. With the help of her friend, Dr.Wah, Mun finds herself in Thailand tracing the origins of her corneas.

I like the ideas in this film, and many of the visuals are quite creepy, but I just didn’t get that much out of it. Maybe it was the sudden tonal shift that lets it down, or maybe I just like seeing people suffer.

– AB Kade Rogers

SINCE the fall of Baghdad, enough documentaries have been made that detail both sides of the story. The world wants to know what’s going on with the US Government and the Iraqi people – and the media that portray them.

Control Room is a documentary about Al Jazeera, one of the main Arab channels in the Middle East, and their coverage of the war in Iraq.

Interviews with Al Jazeera managers and producers, US military public affairs, Western media and war footage from all forms of television news media build a compelling story.

It’s interesting to see Al Jazeera’s side of the campaign, as they only had to report to the Middle Eastern public and not consider the families of the coalition.

Well worth $6 from the video shop.

– LT Simone Heyer

THE Canadians, bless their maple-leaved socks, aren’t renowned for their movie-making prowess and

Nothing isn’t a stand-out of the movie world.

It promises to be about real people in a true story; not a new concept. Two nerdy house mates are done over by people they trust, then discover their house is going to be destroyed.

While they’re cowering in the basement as police surround the house, they see a white light.

Everything is quiet and the friends gather up the courage to step outside. They discover their house and the patch of land it sits on is suspended in nothing. All around them is nothing.

The rest of the movie is about the quest for finding something – which they don’t find.

They walk into the nothing – which feels and looks like tofu, and keep walking till they find their way home.

Nothing is unusual and best saved for TV.

– LT Simone Heyer