query: In 2010, Kick-Ass was released.

pos: Kick-Ass (film) Kick-Ass is a 2010 British-American superhero black comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita , Jr. . The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn , who produced with Brad Pitt and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman . Its general release was on 25 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 16 April 2010 in the United States . It is the first installment of the Kick-Ass film series .   It tells the story of an ordinary teenager , Dave Lizewski ( Aaron Johnson ) , who sets out to become a real-life superhero , calling himself `` Kick-Ass '' . Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy ( Nicolas Cage ) , a former cop who , in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico ( Mark Strong ) and his son ( Christopher Mintz-Plasse ) ( Red Mist ) , has trained his eleven-year-old daughter ( Chloë Grace Moretz ) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl .   Despite having generated some controversy for its profanity and violence performed by a child , Kick-Ass was well received by both critics and audiences . In 2011 it won the Empire Award for Best British Film . The film has gained a strong cult following since its release on DVD and Blu-ray . A sequel , written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and produced by Vaughn , was released in August 2013 , with Johnson , Mintz-Plasse , and Moretz reprising their roles .

neg: No Bullshit `` No Bullshit '' is a song by American recording artist Chris Brown , released as the second single from his second official mixtape Fan of a Fan ( 2010 ) . The song was originally recorded for and included on Brown 's previous mixtape In My Zone ( 2010 ) , and was later included on his fourth studio album F.A.M.E. ( 2011 ) . Musically , the song is about Brown encouraging a woman to come back to his apartment in the hope that she will `` do it all night '' .   Initially only released as a B-side to Brown 's previous single `` Deuces '' , the song was later released to rhythmic radio on January 18 , 2011 as a single in its own right , and peaked at number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 . It was written by Brown , Kevin McCall and Tha Bizness .   The song peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs , # 1 on urban radio , and # 62 on the US Billboard Hot 100 .

neg: Pokémon Apokélypse Pokémon Apokélypse is a 2010 fan-made short film directed by Kial Natale and produced by Dylan Innes and Lee Majdoub . Based on the Pokémon franchise , the storyline takes place several years after the events of the original anime series . Intended as a fan-response to `` the common trend of ` dark and gritty ' reboots of popular franchises '' , the film was meant to give a mature spin on Pokémon and be in the same vein as work seen on parody website CollegeHumor . The creators initially intended to reveal the film at the Vancouver Anime Evolution convention , it was not shown due to technical difficulties . Instead on September 14 , 2010 , it revealed online via a teaser segment distributed through emails sent to various media outlets , which presented itself as a recording of a `` secret movie trailer screening '' for a film in development . The full film followed shortly thereafter , posted online on September 20 .   The result of almost two years of work , the film follows Ash Ketchum and his friends years after the events of the original anime series , and their struggle against criminal organization Rocket Industries . Deciding on using the subject of Pokémon after considering several possibilities such as Grand Theft Auto and Dragon Ball Z , the producers were surprised by fan reaction to the material . Despite praises for the content , they have stated they have no intention to produce a full-fledged film .   The initial `` leaked '' preview was met with skepticism and criticism , with Crave Online in particular recalling the trend of past video game-inspired films being of poor quality . Kotaku and Topless Robot in particular noting that the preview did it a disservice by hiding the charm of the completed project , which by comparison was met with very positive reception . GamesRadar called it `` amazing '' , and stated that the content was `` good enough for grown ups '' ; in a further discussion , they added they were impressed by the quality of the work , and how it addressed the similarity between the games and dog fighting . Other sources such as The Escapist and Game Informer also heavily praised the production , with the former lamenting that such a concept would never officially appear from Nintendo .

neg: 2010–11 World Series of Boxing The 2010 -- 11 World Series of Boxing is the inaugural edition of the World Series of Boxing . The event is organised by the International Boxing Association ( AIBA ) .

neg: Relapse (Eminem album) Relapse is the sixth studio album by American rapper Eminem . The album was released on May 19 , 2009 , under Aftermath Entertainment , Shady Records , and Interscope Records . It was his first album of original material since Encore ( 2004 ) , following a four-year hiatus from recording due to his writer 's block and an addiction to prescription sleeping medication . Recording sessions for the album took place during 2005 to 2009 at several recording studios , and Dr. Dre , Mark Batson , and Eminem handled production . Conceptually , Relapse concerns the ending of his drug rehabilitation , rapping after a non-fictional relapse , and the return of his Slim Shady alter-ego .   One of the most anticipated album releases of 2009 , Relapse debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart , selling 608,000 copies in its first week . It produced three singles that attained chart success and has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . The album received mixed reviews from most music critics , who were divided in their responses towards Eminem 's lyrics . It has sold more than 2.3 million copies in the United States and more than 17 million copies worldwide .

neg: Born to Raise Hell (film) Born to Raise Hell is a 2010 American action film directed by Lauro Chartrand , and also written and produced by Steven Seagal , who also starred in the film . The film co-stars Dan Bădărău and Darren Shahlavi . The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on April 19 , 2011 .

neg: Greatest Hits (Dokken album) Greatest Hits is a compilation album by heavy metal band Dokken . It is a collection of re-recorded 1980s hits along with two new tracks . On March 1 , 2010 , it was digitally released to iTunes and Amazon.com . The physical album with additional tracks was released in the US by Cleopatra Records on May 4 , 2010 , and in Japan on May 11 , 2010 , by King Records . On June 14 , 2011 , it was re-released by Store For Music LTD under the new title The Anthems with a new cover . The Anthems contains both of the bonus tracks from the Japanese edition of Greatest Hits .

neg: American Slang American Slang is the third studio album by New Jersey -- based rock group The Gaslight Anthem . It was released on June 15 , 2010 on SideOneDummy Records , which released their previous album , The '59 Sound . The album was produced by ` The '59 Sound producer Ted Hutt .

neg: Let the Game Begin Let the Game Begin is a 2010 American romantic comedy from Twisted Light Productions , directed by Amit Gupta . The film stars CSI : Miami actor Adam Rodriguez and Stephen Baldwin . The film was released in Australia on May 5 , 2010 , and was released in other countries in 2010 and 2011 .

neg: 2010 Sundance Film Festival The 26th annual Sundance Film Festival was held from January 21 , 2010 until January 31 , 2010 in Park City , Utah .

neg: Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2010 The 4th Houston Film Critics Society Awards were presented on December 18 , 2010 . These awards for `` extraordinary accomplishment in film '' are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society ( HFCS ) based in Houston , Texas . The organization , founded in 2007 , includes 22 film critics for print , radio , television , and internet publications in the greater Houston area . The awards are co-sponsored by the Houston Film Commission , Southwest Alternate Media Project , Women in Film and Television/Houston , WorldFest , and the Houston Cinema Arts Society .   The nominations for the 2010 awards were announced on December 12 , 2010 . Eligible films do not need to have played or opened in a Houston film theater prior to the nomination deadline , merely made available to the HFCS membership at a screening or on DVD . Along with the 13 `` best of '' category awards , this year also saw the introduction of a new category for `` Worst Movies of the Year '' . The Social Network , True Grit , and 127 Hours each received six nominations , all including the Best Picture , Actor , Direction , and Original Score categories .   The Social Network was the HFCS 's most awarded film of 2010 taking top honors in the Best Picture , Best Director ( David Fincher ) , Best Actor ( Jesse Eisenberg ) , and Best Screenplay ( Aaron Sorkin ) categories . Inception was the only other film to garner multiple awards , winning both the Best Original Score ( Hans Zimmer ) and Best Cinematography ( Wally Pfister ) prizes . The other acting awards went to Natalie Portman as Best Actress for Black Swan , Hailee Steinfeld as Best Supporting Actress for True Grit , and Christian Bale as Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter . The remaining film honors went to Toy Story 3 as Best Animated Film , Restrepo as Best Documentary , and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Best Foreign Language Film . `` We Are Sex Bob-Omb '' by Beck from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was named the Best Original Song . The HFCS 's first-ever award for `` Worst Picture '' was given to Jonah Hex starring Josh Brolin .   In addition to the category awards , the HFCS presented their annual Lifetime Achievement Award to Sissy Spacek and its Humanitarian Award to George Clooney . Clooney was selected for `` selflessly using his celebrity for greater good '' . The HFCS award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema awards were presented to Charles Dove , director of the Rice University Media Center , and Hector Luna , the founder and editor of C-47 Houston .

neg: Hollywood & Wine Hollywood & Wine is a 2010 American comedy film .

neg: Saturday Night (2010 film) Saturday Night is a 2010 documentary directed by James Franco . The film examines the production process of the NBC late-night live television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live . Shot over a period of six days from December 1 -- 6 , 2008 , the film was originally a school assignment for Franco at New York University .   The film premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival on March 14 , 2010 , but was shelved for several years due to legal matters regarding its distributor and NBC . It was released on September 26 , 2014 on Hulu .

neg: Finally Famous: Born a Thug, Still a Thug Finally Famous : Born a Thug , Still a Thug is the eighth studio album by American rapper Trick Daddy . It was released on September 15 , 2009 , under Dunk Ryders Records , Slip-N-Slide Records , & Atlantic Records . The album features Rayzor , KC , Dunk Ryders , Kanesha Curry , Janet Lawrence , Bad Guy , Desloc , Murk Champ , Ballgreezy , Ice `` Billion '' Berg , Benji Brown , Betty Wright , Jackie Henton , Erin Lynn and Shonie . The first single for the album is `` Why They Jock '' featuring Ice `` Billion '' Berg and Murk Champ , with production from Mizzle Boy . The album debuted at number 34 on The Billboard 200 selling 13,000 copies in its first week .

neg: Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight is a side-scrolling action platform game released by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in . It was marketed as a science fiction-themed spin-off to the arcade game Street Fighter . The English localization of 2010 changed the name and backstory of the main character to imply that he was Ken from the original Street Fighter , whereas the protagonist in the Japanese version is a completely unrelated character named Kevin . 2010 is of a different genre from the traditional Street Fighter games , which are competitive fighting games .

neg: Strong Arm Steady Strong Arm Steady , often referred to as SAS , is a hip hop group in California 's underground hip hop scene . As of December 2009 , the act consists of members Mitchy Slick of San Diego , California , and ( both of Los Angeles ) Phil Da Agony and probably the most visually distinct member , Krondon , who is albinistic . Originally an amorphous collective of at least eight , formed as an alternative to the gang-focused productions of West Coast rap 's then-dominant Death Row Records , SAS pared down to four members for recording in the studio and performing live , with Xzibit as the frontman . Since he left the group in 2006 , the three remaining members have been a stable trio .   Over the years they have recorded many mixtapes and have distributed them all over the world . `` Speaking directly to their fans , '' they were West Coast pioneers in the use of mixtapes as a group 's principal method of distribution and marketing , a model necessitated by their neither being DJs nor closely affiliated with a DJ , and a method already proven on the East Coast by 50 Cent and others in the early 2000s .   Talib Kweli signed Strong Arm Steady to his Blacksmith Records label in 2007 . The group released a collaboration with producer Madlib , In Search of Stoney Jackson , with a roster of guest vocalists including studio head Talib Kweli , former SAS member Planet Asia , Guilty Simpson , Phonte ( of Little Brother ) , Fashawn , and `` a host of underground Los Angeles 's emerging rap talent '' . Stoney Jackson , as it has been called for short , was released online as MP3 files in December 2009 through Stones Throw Records , with a CD release date of January 26 , 2010 . The album was named one of the best albums of 2010 by numerous media outlets including AllHipHop and on the blog of famed producer DJ Premier .   Their album Arms & Hammers was released on February 22 , 2011 by Blacksmith Records and Element 9 and distributed by Fontana Distribution .

neg: Gimmie Dat `` Gimmie Dat '' is a song by American singer-songwriter Ciara . The song was written by Ciara , along with its two producers Christopher `` Tricky '' Stewart and Kenneth `` Soundz '' Coby for her fourth studio album , Basic Instinct ( 2010 ) . `` Gimmie Dat '' is an uptempo dance song , featuring speedy , kinetic beats and a sensual-breathy tone . The song has been compared to her previous hip hop-flavored dance songs , `` Goodies '' , and `` Work '' , and has also been compared to Missy Elliott 's `` Work It '' . `` Gimmie Dat '' was released as the third single from Basic Instinct on October 15 , 2010 . In some countries , the song was released alongside `` Speechless '' , as a dual single .   `` Gimmie Dat '' was well received by music critics , who compliment its uptempo beat . Although the song was well received by critics , it only managed to peak at the lower half of US and UK charts . An official remix of the song , dubbed the `` Slow Bass Remix '' was released in the United States on December 21 , 2010 . It was later confirmed that Ciara had paid for the music video , radio play and promotion of the single herself because the label refused to do so . According to Ciara , her record label even told radio stations to stop playing the song . `` Gimmie Dat '' was Ciara 's final single released under LaFace Records , which she had her contract released from due to Basic Instinct 's underperforming sales .

neg: ABCs (song) ABCs is the first official single by rapper K'naan on his album Troubadour . It also features rapper Chubb Rock and is produced by A&M / Octone Records . The song was also featured on the soundtrack for the video game Madden 09 and in both the film and the trailer for The Trotsky . The song can be heard in the 2010 film Step Up 3D . It samples Chubb Rock 's `` Treat 'Em Right '' and Mulatu Astatke 's `` Kasalefkut hulu . ''

neg: Kashi Kicks Kashi Kicks is an American footwear company based in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania that produces unique sneaker designs . Kashi Kicks was developed as a more fashion-oriented line compared to other brands at the time , in both aesthetic and function . The shoes are endorsed by a number of members of the hip hop and professional athletic communities including George Clinton , Flavor Flav , Talib Kweli , Joey Porter , Nino Storm and Ginuwine .   In August 2007 , Kashi Kicks announced the release of the Liberace shoe , to honor `` the King of Bling '' . This was done in collaboration with the Liberace Foundation of Las Vegas .  Kashi Kicks connects with the streets using innovative promotional mixtape marketing . To date Kashi Kicks has sponsored mixtapes done by DJs like DJ Age , DJ Fade , DJ L-Gee , DJ Stacks , DJ Kenny Kaign , DJ Scrill , DJ Gloss , DJ Flaco , DJ Scream , DJ Blurray , DJ Spinz , DJ Haze , DJ Prodege , DJ Warrior & Julian Ramirez , DJ Delz , DJ Furious , Team EXT , Spaz , Rockie Fontaine & DJ Rokz

neg: Goodfellas Goodfellas ( stylized as GoodFellas ) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese . It is an adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi , who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese . The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980 .   Scorsese initially named the film Wise Guy and postponed making it ; later , he and Pileggi changed the name to Goodfellas . To prepare for their roles in the film , Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci , and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi , who shared research material left over from writing the book . According to Pesci , improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted . The director made transcripts of these sessions , took the lines he liked best , and put them into a revised script , which the cast worked from during principal photography .   Made on a budget of $ 25 million , Goodfellas grossed $ 46.8 million . It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Director , with Pesci winning Best Actor in a Supporting Role . The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , including Best Film and Best Director . Additionally , Goodfellas was named the year 's best film by various critics ' groups .   Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the crime genre . In 2000 , it was deemed `` culturally , historically , and aesthetically significant '' and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress . Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television shows .


query: Harry Potter confronts someone in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

pos: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series , written by British author J. K. Rowling . The book was released on 21 July 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing in the United Kingdom , in the United States by Scholastic , and in Canada by Raincoast Books , ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone . The novel chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ( 2005 ) , and the final confrontation between the wizards Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort , as well as revealing the previously concealed back story of several main characters . The title of the book refers to three mythical objects featured in the story , collectively known as the `` Deathly Hallows '' -- an unbeatable wand , a stone to bring the dead to life , and a cloak of invisibility .   Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in January 2007 . Before its release , Bloomsbury reportedly spent # 10 million to keep the book 's contents safe before its release date . American publisher Arthur Levine refused any copies of the novel to be released in advance for press review , although two reviews were submitted early . Shortly before release , photos of all 759 pages of the U.S. edition were leaked and transcribed , leading Scholastic to look for the source that had leaked it .   Released globally in 93 countries , Deathly Hallows broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever , a record it still held in 2012 . It sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours following its release , including more than 11 million in the U.S. and UK alone . The previous record , 9 million in its first day , had been held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince . The novel has also been translated into over 120 languages . The title proved difficult to translate and was often rendered closer to `` Harry Potter and the Relics of Death '' in other languages .   Major themes in the novel are death and living in a corrupted society , and critics have compared them to Christian allegories . Generally well-received , the book won the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award , and the American Library Association named it a `` Best Book for Young Adults '' . A two-part film adaptation began showing in November 2010 when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1 was released ; Part 2 was released on 15 July 2011 .

neg: Gandalf (mythology) Gandalf ( Gandálfr ) is a Dvergr ( Norse dwarf ) in Norse mythology , appearing in the so-called ` Tally of the Dwarves ' within the poem Völuspá from the Poetic Edda , as well as in the Prose Edda . The name derives from the Old Norse words gandr ( magic staff ) and álfr ( elf ) , thus a protective spirit who wields a magical wand .   The name was also used for a Norse king in the Heimskringla .   In his fictional writings , J. R. R. Tolkien eventually named his wizard Gandalf after the Dvergr , but initially used the name for the head of the dwarf party ( ultimately to be called Thorin Oakenshield ) .

neg: Goleuddydd Goleuddydd ( `` light of day '' from the Welsh golau , `` light '' , and dydd , `` day '' ) , in the Middle Welsh prose tale Culhwch ac Olwen , is the daughter of Amlawdd Wledig , and is desired by Cilydd , who marries her . She becomes pregnant with his child , but becomes mad and turns to wandering the countryside . When she is near to giving birth , her senses return , and she takes shelter with a swineherd . Frightened by the pigs , she gives birth to a boy , apparently in a pig run . The swineherd takes the baby away to be baptised as Culhwch ; he becomes the protagonist of Culhwch and Olwen .   Following the birth , Goleuddydd becomes fatally ill and , before dying , exhorts her husband not to remarry until he sees a briar with two blossoms on her grave . Cilydd agrees , and Goleuddydd eventually dies . Goleuddydd orders her confessor to visit her grave every year and keep it well trimmed , lest anything should grow there . Cilydd sends an attendant to her grave every day , to look for the briar . After seven years of this , the confessor neglects his duties . One day whilst out hunting , apparently several years later , Cilydd happens upon the grave , and sees upon it a briar with two blossoms . He takes this as a sign to remarry . He kills King Doged at some point and marries his widow .   Category : Welsh mythology  Category : Arthurian characters  Category : Welsh feminine given names

neg: The Dangerous Book for Boys The Dangerous Book for Boys , by Conn and Hal Iggulden , is a guidebook published by HarperCollins , aimed at boys `` from eight to eighty . '' It covers around eighty topics , including how to build a treehouse , grow a crystal , or tell direction with a watch . Also included are famous quotes , stories , battles , and phrases that `` every boy should know . '' It was published in the UK in June 2006 , and reached number one in the UK non-fiction charts several times , selling over half a million copies .   Conn Iggulden also published a novel , Wolf of the Plains , about Genghis Khan , which , along with The Dangerous Book for Boys , allowed Iggulden to be the first author to reach the number one spot in both the fiction and non-fiction charts .   Within the first week of its US publication on 1 May 2007 , it reached number two on the Amazon.com best-selling book lists , being outsold only by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . Other people who contributed to the success of the book include the editorial team at the time , which consisted of Katie Espiner and Clare Hey , and Helen Johnstone , who won the 2007 British Book Industry Award for best publicity campaign .

neg: The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a children 's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter , and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1904 . Potter took inspiration for the tale from two mice caught in a cage-trap in her cousin 's home and a dollhouse being constructed by her editor and publisher Norman Warne as a Christmas gift for his niece Winifred . While the tale was being developed , Potter and Warne fell in love and became engaged , much to the annoyance of Potter 's parents , who were grooming their daughter to be a permanent resident and housekeeper in their London home .   The tale is about two mice who vandalize a dollhouse . After finding the food on the dining room table made of plaster , they smash the dishes , throw the doll clothing out the window , tear the bolster , and carry off a number of articles to their mouse-hole . When the little girl who owns the dollhouse discovers the destruction , she positions a policeman doll outside the front door to ward off any future depredation . The two mice atone for their crime spree by putting a crooked sixpence in the doll 's stocking on Christmas Eve and sweeping the house every morning with a dust-pan and broom .   The tale 's themes of rebellion , insurrection , and individualism reflect not only Potter 's desire to free herself of her domineering parents and build a home of her own , but her fears about independence and her frustrations with Victorian domesticity .   The book was critically well received and brought Potter her first fan letter from America . The tale was adapted to a segment in the 1971 Royal Ballet film The Tales of Beatrix Potter and to an animated episode in the BBC series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends . Merchandise inspired by the tale includes Beswick Pottery porcelain figurines and Schmid music boxes .

neg: The Dragon's Call `` The Dragon 's Call '' is the first episode of the first series of the British fantasy-adventure family television series Merlin . Written by Julian Jones and directed by James Hawes , the episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 20 September 2008 .   The episode tells the arrival of Merlin ( Colin Morgan ) as a young man in Camelot , where magic is banned by King Uther Pendragon ( Anthony Head ) . Taken under the wing of Camelot 's physician , Gaius ( Richard Wilson ) , he is warned that he must keep his innate magical ability a secret . In Camelot , he meets Uther 's heir , the arrogant Prince Arthur ( Bradley James ) , as well as Lady Morgana ( Katie McGrath ) and her handmaid , Guinevere ( Angel Coulby ) . As a witch ( Eve Myles ) plans revenge on the King 's heir for the execution of her son , Merlin is informed by a cryptic dragon ( John Hurt ) that his destiny is to protect Arthur .   Merlin was conceived by Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps to be an origin story for the characters of the Arthurian legends , with family-centered entertainment . Young actors with little experience were cast as the four lead characters , while better-known actors were cast in supporting roles . Many of the scenes in Camelot were filmed in France , at the Château de Pierrefonds , while the rest was filmed in England and Wales . Special effects were done by The Mill , who had the task of creating the talking dragon . `` The Dragon 's Call '' was watched by 7.15 million viewers in the UK and 6.3 million in the US on NBC . Critical reception was mixed , with some feeling the show had promise but lacked imagination , and the actual plot of `` The Dragon 's Call '' was deemed slight .

neg: Curse A curse ( also called an imprecation , malediction , execration , malison , anathema , or commination ) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity : one or more persons , a place , or an object . In particular , `` curse '' may refer to such a wish or pronouncement made effective by a supernatural or spiritual power , such as a god or gods , a spirit , or a natural force , or else as a kind of spell by magic or witchcraft ; in the latter sense , a curse can also be called a hex or a jinx . In many belief systems , the curse itself ( or accompanying ritual ) is considered to have some causative force in the result . To reverse or eliminate a curse is sometimes called `` removal '' or `` breaking '' , and is often believed to require elaborate rituals or prayers .   The study of the forms of curses comprise a significant proportion of the study of both folk religion and folklore . The deliberate attempt to levy curses is often part of the practice of magic . In Hindu culture the Sage or Rishi is believed to have the power to bless and curse . Examples include the curse placed by Rishi Bhrigu on king Nahusha and the one placed by Rishi Devala .  Special names for specific types of curses can be found in various cultures :  African American hoodoo presents us with the jinx and crossed conditions , as well as a form of foot track magic which was used by Ramandeep , whereby cursed objects are laid in the paths of victims and activated when walked over .  Middle Eastern and Mediterranean culture is the source of the belief in the evil eye , which may be the result of envy but , more rarely , is said to be the result of a deliberate curse . In order to be protected from the evil eye , a protection item is made from dark blue circular glass , with a circle of white around the black dot in the middle , which is reminiscent of a human eye . The size of the protective eye item may vary .  German people , including the Pennsylvania Dutch speak in terms of hexing ( from the German word for witchcraft ) , and a common hex in days past was that laid by a stable-witch who caused milk cows to go dry and horses to go lame .

neg: Harry Potter in Calcutta Harry Potter in Calcutta is a work by Uttam Ghosh in which Harry Potter meets figures from Bengali literature . J. K. Rowling and her lawyers sued for the novel to be removed from the market , citing intellectual property concerns , and subsequently they were removed from sales .

neg: Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice is a 1971 fiction book about a teenage girl who develops a drug habit at age 15 , runs away from home , and eventually dies of a drug overdose . Attributed to `` Anonymous '' , the book is in diary form , and was originally presented as being the edited `` real diary '' of the unnamed teenage protagonist . Questions about the book 's authenticity and true authorship began to arise in the late 1970s , and it is now generally viewed as a work of fiction written by Beatrice Sparks , a therapist and author who went on to write numerous other books purporting to be real diaries of troubled teenagers . Some sources have also named Linda Glovach as a co-author of the book .   Intended for a young adult audience , Go Ask Alice became a widely popular bestseller . It was initially praised for conveying a powerful message about the dangers of drug abuse , but more recently has been criticized as poorly written anti-drug propaganda and also as a literary hoax . Nevertheless , its popularity has endured , and as of 2014 it had remained continuously in print since its publication over four decades earlier . Go Ask Alice has also ranked among the most frequently challenged books for several decades due to its use of profanity and explicit references to sex and rape , as well as drugs .   The book was adapted into the 1973 television film Go Ask Alice , starring Jamie Smith-Jackson and William Shatner . In 1976 , a stage play of the same name , written by Frank Shiras and based on the book , was also published .

neg: A Wizard of Earthsea A Wizard of Earthsea is a young adult fantasy novel written by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin , first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968 . The novel received highly positive reviews , initially as a work for children , and later among a general audience as well .   Set in the fictional archipelago of Earthsea , the story centers around a young mage named Ged , born in a village on the island Gont . Displaying great power while still a boy , he joins the school of wizardry , where his prickly nature drives him into conflict with one of his fellows . During a magical duel , Ged 's spell goes awry and releases a shadow creature that attacks him . The novel follows his journey as he seeks to be free of the creature .   The book has often been described as a Bildungsroman or coming of age story , as it explores Ged 's process of learning to cope with power and come to terms with death . The novel also carries Taoist themes about a fundamental balance in the universe of Earthsea , which wizards are supposed to maintain , closely tied to the idea that language and names have power to affect the material world and alter this balance . Although the structure of the story is similar to that of a traditional epic , critics also described it as subverting this genre in many ways , such as by making the protagonist dark-skinned , in comparison to more typical white-skinned heroes .   A Wizard of Earthsea is widely regarded as a classic of fantasy and young-adult literature and was one of the final recipients of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award . The book was widely influential within the genre of fantasy ; Margaret Atwood , for instance , called A Wizard of Earthsea one of the `` wellsprings '' of fantasy literature . Le Guin would later write five subsequent books that , together with A Wizard of Earthsea , are referred to as the Earthsea Cycle : The Tombs of Atuan ( 1971 ) , The Farthest Shore ( 1972 ) , Tehanu ( 1990 ) , The Other Wind ( 2001 ) , and Tales from Earthsea ( 2001 ) . George Slusser has described the series as a `` work of high style and imagination '' .

neg: So You Want to Be a Wizard So You Want To Be a Wizard is the first book in the Young Wizards series currently consisting of eleven books by Diane Duane . It was written in 1982 and published in the next year . In 2012 a revised `` New Millennium Edition '' was published . The plot follows Nita Callahan , a thirteen-year-old girl who discovers a book titled So You Want to Be a Wizard while hiding from bullies in a library . She brings the book home with her and discovers that it is about the art of wizardry . She does not completely trust the book 's claim that she can become a wizard if she takes the Wizard Oath , but she takes it nonetheless . The next day when she is out trying to do her first spell she meets Kit Rodriguez , another wizard . After they successfully complete a spell together , Nita 's doubts are gone : she is a wizard .

neg: Harry Potter Alliance The Harry Potter Alliance ( also known as the HPA ) is a nonprofit organization run primarily by Harry Potter fans . It was founded by Andrew Slack in 2005 to draw attention to human rights violations in Sudan . Since then , the organisation 's campaigns have focused on topics such as literacy , United States immigration reform , economic justice , gay rights , sexism , labor rights , mental health , body image , and climate change . They have received recognition from many popular figures in the Harry Potter community and have been the subject of multiple academic studies on fan activism and civic engagement among youth .

neg: Death and What Comes Next `` Death and What Comes Next '' is a Discworld short story by Terry Pratchett . It tells the story of a discussion between Death and a philosopher , in which the philosopher attempts to use the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics to argue death is not a certainty .   The story was originally written in 2002 for the now-defunct online puzzle game TimeHunt and the text contains a hidden word puzzle , also devised by Pratchett , which provided a codeword for the game .   Like `` Theatre of Cruelty '' , another of his short stories , Pratchett allowed it to be put on the L-Space Web .

neg: The Secret of Platform 13 The Secret of Platform 13 is a children 's novel by Eva Ibbotson , and illustrated by Sue Porter , first published in 1994 .   The book has gained extra significance as many readers find it similar to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling , as the first book of that series , Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone was published in 1997 , three years after this book was published . ( They both mention a platform on Kings Cross Station , in London , that leads to a different world . ) As journalist Amanda Craig has written , `` Ibbotson would seem to have at least as good a case for claiming plagiarism as the American author currently suing J. K. Rowling , but unlike her , Ibbotson says she would ` like to shake her by the hand . I think we all borrow from each other as writers . ' ''

neg: To War with Whitaker To War with Whitaker : The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly 1939 -- 1945 is a memoir of World War II written , in diary form , by Hermione , Countess of Ranfurly . It was first published by William Heinemann in 1994 . The following year , Mandarin Publishing issued it in paperback , describing the memoir as `` A love story that knows no bounds '' :   When World War II broke out , Dan Ranfurly was dispatched to the Middle East with his faithful valet , Whitaker . These are the diaries of his young wife , Hermione , who , defying the War Office , raced off in hot pursuit of her husband . When Dan was taken prisoner , Hermione vowed never to return home until they were reunited . For six years , travelling alone from Cape Town to Palestine , and meeting such charismatic characters as Churchill , Eisenhower , and a parrot called Coco on the way , she kept her promise .   To War with Whitaker received immediate and general critical acclaim . The actor-novelist Sir Dirk Bogarde wrote in the Daily Telegraph : `` If you buy one more book this year , do make it To War with Whitaker . '' The author Robert Rhodes James wrote in the Sunday Express : `` An extraordinary story . No review can do justice to the writing . '' The Daily Mail commented : `` These absolutely spiffing diaries offer a madcap , aristocratic window behind the lines of war '' and the reviewer for Woman & Home wrote : `` Few diaries from any era could be as fascinating ... This is truly compulsive reading . '' Its lively prose style is characterised by frankness , a sharp eye for character -- not least that of the short , chubby , phlegmatic valet Whitaker -- and a sharp ear for dialogue . For example , when the Earl received a telegram at the outbreak of war in 1939 ordering him to report to his regiment , the Countess writes : `` After reading this Dan asked Whitaker if he would like to go with him . The old fatty looked over the top of his spectacles and said , ` To the War , my Lord ? Very good , my Lord . ' ''   The Countess 's husband Daniel Knox , 6th Earl of Ranfurly , was a lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry . He was captured by soldiers of Rommel 's Afrika Korps , along with General Sir Richard O'Connor and other officers , in Libya in April 1941 when their driver became lost in the dark . A military historian later described it as `` the most valuable car-load of booty to fall to the Afrika Korps during its entire existence '' . He spent the next two years as a prisoner-of-war in Italy .   Daniel and other British officers escaped following the Italian surrender in 1943 and , after several months on the run behind German lines , he was finally reunited with his wife in Algiers in May 1944 . After the war , he served as Governor of the Bahamas where his wife established a lending library service in Nassau that she later extended to other parts of the world in need of English books .   When the Countess died in 2001 , her obituarist for the Daily Telegraph wrote : `` Hermione , Countess of Ranfurly , who has died aged 87 , was the author of one of the most delightful memoirs of recent times , To War with Whitaker ( 1994 ) , and the kind of woman for whom words such as pluck and spirit might have been invented . ''

neg: George Percy, Earl Percy George Dominic Percy , Earl Percy ( born 4 May 1984 ) , is the heir apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland .   Percy was born as the second child and elder son of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland . He became heir apparent to the dukedom in 1995 , when his uncle Henry , 11th Duke of Northumberland , died . Percy 's parents , now Duke and Duchess of Northumberland , were eager to protect him from `` vices and pitfalls '' , and filed a lawsuit to prevent him from inheriting # 1 million and a # 250,000 annual income upon turning 18 . In 1999 , they succeeded in delaying the inheritance , which Lord Percy received at the age of 25 . George Percy is also set to inherit Alnwick Castle , famously known as Hogwarts ' School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter films . He served as a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II from 1996 to 1998 . He is also a direct descendant of Charles II of England through multiple descents .   Earl Percy was educated at Eton College , and studied geography at the University of Edinburgh , specialising in sustainable development and renewable energy . He graduated in 2008 , having shared a house with Pippa Middleton , with whom he has been linked since .   Percy studied Arabic language at the University of Damascus , and later worked in Abu Dhabi . He is the managing director of energy company Cluff Geothermal with Paul Younger .   As old family friends , Lord Percy and his family attended the wedding of Middleton 's sister Catherine and Prince William , Duke of Cambridge , in 2011 .

neg: Recurring enemies in The Legend of Zelda series This article describes several types of fictional enemy creatures encountered in The Legend of Zelda series of video games .   While many enemies can be killed solely with Link 's sword , others require the use of specific items to eliminate . In addition , starting with The Wind Waker , some enemies wield weapons such as swords or lit torches that can be used by Link after destroying the enemy . These items serve a single use and eliminate other obstacles by means such as smashing open a doorway or burning down a blocked passage . Specific enemies also hold key items that can be obtained by either killing the monster or using the grappling hook .

neg: Feng (chieftain) Feng was a legendary Jutish chieftain and the prototype for William Shakespeare 's King Claudius . He appears in Chronicon Lethrense and in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( book 3 ) .   The Chronicon Lethrense ( and the included Annales Lundenses ) tell that the Danish king Rorik Slengeborre put Horwendill and Feng as his rulers in Jutland , and gave his daughter to Horwendill as a reward for his good services . Horwendill and the daughter had the son Amblothe ( Hamlet ) . The jealous Feng killed Horwendill and took his wife . Amblothe understood that his life was in danger and tried to survive by faking insanity . Feng sent Amblothe to the king of Britain with two servants carrying a message that the British king should kill Amblothe . While the servants slept , Amblothe carved off the ( probably runic ) message and wrote that the servants should be killed and himself married to the king 's daughter . The British king did what the message said . Exactly one year later , Feng drank to Amblothe 's memory , but Amblothe appeared and killed him .   According to Saxo , Feng and Horwendill were the sons of Jutland 's ruler Gervendill , and succeeded him as the rulers of Jutland . Rørik Slyngebond , king of Denmark , gave his daughter to Horwendill and she bore him the son Amleth . But Feng , out of jealousy , murdered Horwendill , and persuaded Gerutha to become his wife , on the plea that he had committed the crime for no other reason than to avenge her of a husband by whom she had been hated . Amleth , afraid of sharing his father 's fate , pretended to be imbecile , but the suspicion of Feng put him to various tests which are related in detail . Among other things they sought to entangle him with a young girl , his foster-sister , but his cunning saved him . When , however , Amleth slew the eavesdropper hidden , like Polonius , in his mother 's room , and destroyed all trace of the deed , Feng was assured that the young man 's madness was feigned . Accordingly , he dispatched him to England in company with two attendants , who bore a letter enjoining the king of the country to put him to death . Amleth surmised the purport of their instructions , and secretly altered the message on their wooden tablets to the effect that the king should put the attendants to death and give Amleth his daughter in marriage .   After marrying the princess Amleth returned at the end of a year to Denmark . Of the wealth he had accumulated he took with him only certain hollow sticks filled with gold . He arrived in time for a funeral feast , held to celebrate his supposed death . During the feast he plied the courtiers with wine , and executed his vengeance during their drunken sleep by fastening down over them the woolen hangings of the hall with pegs he had sharpened during his feigned madness , and then setting fire to the palace . He then killed Feng with his own sword .

neg: March Hare The March Hare ( called Haigha in Through the Looking-Glass ) is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll 's Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland .   The main character , Alice , hypothesizes ,   `` The March Hare will be much the most interesting , and perhaps as this is May it wo n't be raving mad -- at least not so mad as it was in March . ''   `` Mad as a March hare '' is a common British English phrase , both now and in Carroll 's time , and appears in John Heywood 's collection of proverbs published in 1546 . It is reported in The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner that this proverb is based on popular belief about hares ' behaviour at the beginning of the long breeding season , which lasts from February to September in Britain . Early in the season , unreceptive females often use their forelegs to repel overenthusiastic males . It used to be incorrectly believed that these bouts were between males fighting for breeding supremacy .   Like the character 's friend , the Hatter , the March Hare feels compelled to always behave as though it is tea-time because the Hatter supposedly `` murdered the time '' whilst singing for the Queen of Hearts . Sir John Tenniel 's illustration also shows him with straw on his head , a common way to depict madness in Victorian times . The March Hare later appears at the trial for the Knave of Hearts , and for a final time as `` Haigha '' ( which is pronounced to rhyme with `` mayor '' , according to Carroll ) , the personal messenger to the White King in Through the Looking-Glass .

neg: Character (arts) A character ( sometimes known as a fictional character ) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art ( such as a novel , play , television series , or film ) . The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person , in which case the distinction of a `` fictional '' versus `` real '' character may be made . Derived from the ancient Greek word χαρακτήρ , the English word dates from the Restoration , although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749 . From this , the sense of `` a part played by an actor '' developed . Character , particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema , involves `` the illusion of being a human person . '' In literature , characters guide readers through their stories , helping them to understand plots and ponder themes . Since the end of the 18th century , the phrase `` in character '' has been used to describe an effective impersonation by an actor . Since the 19th century , the art of creating characters , as practiced by actors or writers , has been called characterisation .   A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people is known as a type . Types include both stock characters and those that are more fully individualised . The characters in Henrik Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler ( 1891 ) and August Strindberg 's Miss Julie ( 1888 ) , for example , are representative of specific positions in the social relations of class and gender , such that the conflicts between the characters reveal ideological conflicts .   The study of a character requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work . The individual status of a character is defined through the network of oppositions ( proairetic , pragmatic , linguistic , proxemic ) that it forms with the other characters . The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically , often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality , self-determination , and the social order .

neg: Voice (grammar) In grammar , the voice of a verb , also called diathesis -LSB- daɪˈæθəsɪs -RSB- and ( rarely ) the gender of a verb , describes the relationship between the action ( or state ) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments ( subject , object , etc. ) . When the subject is the agent or doer of the action , the verb is in the active voice . When the subject is the patient , target or undergoer of the action , the verb is said to be in the passive voice .   For example , in the sentence :   The cat ate the mouse .   the verb `` ate '' is in the active voice . However , in the sentence :   The mouse was eaten by the cat .   the verbal phrase `` was eaten '' is passive .   In the sentence :   The hunter killed the bear .   the verb `` killed '' is in the active voice , and the doer of the action is the `` hunter '' .  A passive version of the sentence is :   The bear was killed by the hunter .   where the verbal phrase `` was killed '' is followed by the word `` by '' and then by the doer `` hunter '' .   In a transformation from an active-voice clause to an equivalent passive-voice construction , the subject and the direct object switch grammatical roles . The direct object gets promoted to subject , and the subject demoted to an ( optional ) complement . In the first example above , the mouse serves as the direct object in the active-voice version , but becomes the subject in the passive version . The subject of the active-voice version , the cat , becomes part of a prepositional phrase in the passive version of the sentence , and can be left out entirely .


query: Sophie Turner appeared in movies in 2013.

pos: Sophie Turner Sophie Turner ( born 21 February 1996 ) is an English actress . Turner made her professional acting debut as Sansa Stark on the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones ( 2011 -- present ) , which brought her international recognition and critical praise . For her performance , she has received four nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series , as well as a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Supporting Young Actress in a TV Series .   Turner has also starred in the television film The Thirteenth Tale ( 2013 ) and she made her feature film debut in Another Me ( 2013 ) . She has also starred in the action comedy Barely Lethal ( 2015 ) and played Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series .

neg: Pulp (2012 film) Pulp is a British comedy film directed by Adam Hamdy and Shaun Magher , starring Jay Sutherland and John Thomson On March 2013 it was released exclusively on Xbox Live , becoming the first feature film to be distributed via a games console platform .

neg: The Signal (2014 film) The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank and co-written with Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio . The film stars Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne . The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on June 13 , 2014 . The film is among an increasing number of low-budget , independent science fiction films to be included at the Sundance Film Festival in recent years .

neg: 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival The 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival was the 16th such festival devoted to international cinema held in Shanghai , China .

neg: The Sea (2013 film) The Sea is a 2013 British-Irish drama film directed by Stephen Brown . It is based on the novel of the same name by John Banville , who also wrote the screenplay for the film . The film premiered in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23 June 2013 . The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival .

neg: Mary and Martha (film) Mary and Martha is a 2013 British-American television film starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn , and directed by Phillip Noyce . Based on a screenplay by Richard Curtis , it was produced by Working Title Television , in association with the BBC and NBCUniversal . The film had its UK premiere on March 1 , 2013 on the BBC and premiered in the US on HBO on April 20 , 2013 . based on a true story .

neg: Sophie Langham Sophie Langham is an English actress .   She is most famous for playing one half of Walford 's first lesbian couple , in the popular BBC soap opera , EastEnders . Her character , Binnie Roberts , made her first appearance in 1994 and left in 1995 . During her time on the show Langham 's character and her on-screen girlfriend Della Alexander ( Michelle Joseph ) made headlines in the British press when EastEnders screened its first lesbian kiss . EastEnders added to the controversy by making Della and Binnie a mixed-race couple .   Coincidentally , Sophie Langham and Michelle Joseph both attended Rose Bruford College within a year of each other .   Since leaving EastEnders Langham has appeared in episodes of Jonathan Creek ( 1998 ) ; The Bill ( 1997 ; 2001 ) ; Holby City ( 2003 ) and most recently Doctors ( 2004 ) .

neg: Intruders (2013 film) Intruders is a 2013 South Korean comedy film written and directed by Noh Young-seok . It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival .

neg: Sun Don't Shine Sun Do n't Shine is a 2012 independent thriller film written and directed by Amy Seimetz . It stars Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley . It first premiered on March 10 , 2012 at the South by Southwest Film Festival , where it won a special jury award . The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on April 26 , 2013 , by Factory25 .

neg: Proxy (film) Proxy is a 2013 American horror film directed by Zack Parker . The movie had its world premiere on September 10 , 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It stars Alexia Rasmussen as a pregnant young woman who joins a support group after she miscarries due to a vicious attack . The filmmakers describe Proxy as a spiritual successor to the horror film Rosemary 's Baby , and its main character Esther Woodhouse is named after the earlier film 's protagonist Rosemary Woodhouse .   Film rights to Proxy were picked up by IFC Midnight shortly after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival .

neg: Devil's Knot (film) Devil 's Knot is a 2013 American biographical crime film directed by Atom Egoyan . The film is based on a true story as told in Mara Leveritt 's 2002 book of the same name , concerning three teenagers known as the West Memphis Three , who were convicted of killing three young boys during the Satanic ritual abuse panic . They were subsequently sentenced to death ( Echols ) and life imprisonment ( Baldwin and Misskelley ) . Produced by Elizabeth Fowler , Richard Saperstein , Clark Peterson , Christopher Woodrow , and Paul Harris Boardman , the film stars Colin Firth , Reese Witherspoon , Mireille Enos , Dane DeHaan , Kevin Durand , Bruce Greenwood , Stephen Moyer , Elias Koteas , Amy Ryan , and Alessandro Nivola .   The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 , 2013 , followed by a wider release later that year . The film had a limited release in Canadian theaters on January 24 , 2014 , and was released in U.S. theaters and video on demand services on May 9 , 2014 .

neg: Janine Turner Janine Turner ( born Janine Loraine Gauntt ; December 6 , 1962 ) is an American actress best known for her roles as Maggie O'Connell in the television series Northern Exposure , as Jessie Deighan , in the feature film Cliffhanger , and as Katie McCoy in Friday Night Lights . She is the author of two books , Holding Her Head High , released on The Washington Post best seller list ( Thomas Nelson publisher ) and A Little Bit Vulnerable : On Hollywood , God , Sobriety , & Politics . ( Dunham Books ) . She is an active public speaker and founder and co-chair of Constituting America .

neg: Cold Comes the Night Cold Comes the Night is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Tze Chun , who co-wrote the script with Oz Perkins and Nick Simon . It was released on September 20 , 2013 , in the UK and on January 10 , 2014 in the United States . The film stars Alice Eve , Bryan Cranston and Logan Marshall-Green . The film was produced by Mynette Louie and Trevor Sagan .

neg: A Snow Globe Christmas A Snow Globe Christmas is a 2013 American-Canadian made-for-television romantic comedy film starring Alicia Witt , Donald Faison and Christina Milian . The film premiered on Lifetime Movie Network on December 14 , 2013 .

neg: List of British films of 2013 The British film industry produced over five hundred feature films in 2013 . This article fully lists all non-pornographic films , including short films , that had a release date in that year and which were at least partly made by the United Kingdom . It does not include films first released in previous years that had release dates in 2013 .   Also included is an overview of the major events in British film , including film festivals and awards ceremonies , as well as lists of those films that were particularly well received , both critically and financially . The year was particularly notable for a number of low budget and independent horror films , such as In Fear , Devil 's Pass , Dementamania and Stalled .

neg: Sophie Desmarais Sophie Desmarais ( born July 24 , 1986 ) is a Canadian actress , best known for her role in the 2013 film Sarah Prefers to Run , written and directed by Chloé Robichaud .

neg: A Resurrection (film) A Resurrection ( also titled The Sibling ) is an American horror-thriller film written and directed by Matt Orlando . The film stars Mischa Barton , Michael Clarke Duncan and Devon Sawa . On 12 November 2012 a trailer was released . The film premiered in Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles on 19 March 2013 . This was followed by a limited theatrical release in the United States on 22 March 2013 .

neg: Peeples (film) Peeples is a 2013 American comedy film written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism and produced by Tyler Perry . It stars Craig Robinson and Kerry Washington and was released by Lionsgate on May 10 , 2013 .

neg: Mary Queen of Scots (2013 film) Mary Queen of Scots is a 2013 Swiss period drama directed by Thomas Imbach . It is his first film in English and French language starring the bilingual French actress Camille Rutherford . The film portrays the inner life of Mary , the Queen of Scotland . The film is based on Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig 's 1935 biography , Mary Stuart , a long-term bestseller in Germany and France but out of print in the UK and the US for decades until 2010 . The film was first screened at the 2013 International Film Festival Locarno and was later shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival .

neg: Shopping (2013 film) Shopping is a 2013 New Zealand coming-of-age film written and directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland . It stars Kevin Paulo as a mixed race Samoan New Zealander who falls in with a group of shoplifters led by an Eastern-European immigrant played by Jacek Koman . It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013 and was released in New Zealand on 30 May 2013 .

neg: Back in Crime Back in Crime ( L'Autre Vie de Richard Kemp ) is a 2013 French crime film directed by Germinal Alvarez . It competed in the main competition section of the 35th Moscow International Film Festival .


query: Farrah Fawcett was the subject of an NBC documentary.

pos: Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett ( born Ferrah Leni Fawcett ; February 2 , 1947 -- June 25 , 2009 ) was an American actress and artist . A four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee , Fawcett rose to international fame when she posed for her iconic red swimsuit poster -- which became the best selling pin-up poster in history -- and starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie 's Angels ( 1976 -- 1977 ) . In 1996 , she was ranked No. 26 on TV Guide `` 50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time '' .   Fawcett began her career in 1968 in commercials and guest roles on television . During the 1970s , she appeared in numerous television series , including recurring roles on Harry O ( 1974 -- 1976 ) , and The Six Million Dollar Man ( 1974 -- 1978 ) with then husband , film and television star Lee Majors . Her breakthrough role came in 1976 , when she was cast as Jill Munroe in the ABC series Charlie 's Angels , alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith . The show propelled all three to stardom , but especially Fawcett ( then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors ) . After appearing in only the first season , Fawcett decided to leave the show which led to legal disputes . Eventually she signed a contract requiring her to make six guest appearances in the show 's third and fourth seasons ( 1978 -- 1980 ) . For her role in Charlie 's Angels she received her first Golden Globe nomination .   In 1983 , Fawcett received positive reviews for her performance in the Off-Broadway play Extremities . She was subsequently cast in the 1986 film version and received a Golden Globe nomination . She received two Emmy Award nominations for her roles in TV movies , as a battered wife in the 1984 film The Burning Bed and as real-life murderer Diane Downs in the 1989 film Small Sacrifices . Her 1980s work in TV movies also earned her four additional Golden Globe nominations .   In 1997 , she gained some negative press for a rambling appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman , but also garnered strong reviews for her role in the film The Apostle with Robert Duvall . She continued in numerous TV series , including recurring roles in the sitcom Spin City ( 2001 ) and the drama The Guardian ( 2002 -- 2003 ) . For the latter , she received her third Emmy nomination . Her film roles include , Love Is a Funny Thing ( 1969 ) , Myra Breckinridge ( 1970 ) , Logan 's Run ( 1976 ) , Sunburn ( 1979 ) , Saturn 3 ( 1980 ) , The Cannonball Run ( 1981 ) , Extremities ( 1986 ) , The Apostle ( 1997 ) , and Dr. T & the Women ( 2000 ) .   Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 ; the 2009 NBC documentary Farrah 's Story chronicled her battle with the disease . She posthumously earned her fourth Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on the documentary .

neg: Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang is a 1980 political documentary film produced and directed by Jack Willis and Saul Landau , written by Jack Willis and Penny Bernstein , narrated by Penny Bernstein with cinematography by Zack Krieger and Haskell Wexler . Photographed by Sandi Sissel .   The focus of the film is the government cover-up of the health hazards related to the 1950s atomic bomb testing in Nevada . Paul Jacobs , a journalist , activist and co-founder of the magazine Mother Jones , investigated the results of the tests on unknowing civilians and soldiers used as guinea pigs . Jacobs died of lung cancer before the film was completed ; his doctors believed he contracted cancer as a result of radiation exposure .   The film was shown on PBS in the United States and widely distributed on television and theatrically in Europe . It was censored by Swedish Television during the time of a referendum on nuclear energy in Sweden .   The film won an Emmy Award ( 1980 ) , George Polk Award for investigative journalism on TV , Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award , and Best Documentary at the Mannheim Film Festival .

neg: The New Americans The New Americans is a seven-hour American documentary , produced by Kartemquin Films , that was originally broadcast on American television over three nights on the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) in late March 2004 .   The observational documentary , which includes minimal voice-over narration and very little direct interviewing of its subjects ( and none in which the interviewer 's voice is heard ) , follows the lives of a series of immigrants to the United States over the course of four years . The series was filmed between 1998 and 2001 , although not all of its subjects were filmed during that entire length of time . The immigrants were filmed both in their countries of origin before immigrating as well as in the United States . The filming during this period was extensive and occurred in the subjects ' homes , at their places of work , in government offices , and in a number of other situations , many of them quite intimate . As a result , The New Americans offers an unusually personal and comprehensive look at the people it profiles .   The immigrants profiled and filmed in The New Americans include a group of baseball players from the Dominican Republic hoping to secure a career in Major League Baseball ; a computer programmer from India and his wife ; a family with six children from a farming community in the state of Guanajuato , Mexico ; a family of Ogoni refugees from Nigeria ; and a woman from Palestine who moves to the United States to be with her new husband , a first-generation Palestinian-American who grew up in Chicago .   The locations shown in the documentary include not only each of the immigrants ' countries of origin , but also many places in the United States where the immigrants settled or traveled , including Chicago ( the Palestinian and Nigerian immigrants ) , the Silicon Valley of California ( the Indian immigrants ) , Garden City , Kansas and Mecca , California ( the Mexican immigrants ) , and Florida , Georgia and Montana ( the Dominican immigrants ) .   The New Americans was executive produced by Steve James ( who also produced the acclaimed 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams ) and Gordon Quinn , both of Kartemquin Films . It was broadcast on PBS as part of the series Independent Lens , in association with the Independent Television Service ( ITVS ) . The program was also broadcast in the United Kingdom on the cable network BBC Four in early April 2004 .   Steve James on the making of the New Americans , `` From the beginning , we knew we wanted to tell multiple stories , because every immigrant I 've met has a very rich and varied story to tell about where they come from . We also were excited about the idea of telling these people 's stories before they left their countries so that we could begin to understand these people in their own country before they gave it all up to come here . They 're all facing different problems different dreams , so there 's that diversity too . They 're a nice collection of stories because their differences and similarities . ''   Primary funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( CPB ) . Additional major funding was provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , the Annie E. Casey Foundation and PBS . Additional funding also came from the National Endowment of the Arts , BBC , Nick Fraser , SBS , TV Australia , and VPRO , The Netherlands . The New Americans is a presentation of ITVS in association with Latino Public Broadcasting ( LPB ) and Asian Women United/National Asian American Telecommunications Association ( NAATA ) .   The New Americans won a variety of awards including : The Chicago Award for Best Chicago or Illinois Production , Chicago International Television Competition ( 2004 ) ; Gold Hugo for Best Overall Production , Chicago International Television Competition 2004 -RSB- ; Best Limited Series , Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards , International Documentary Association ( IDA ) ( 2004 ) ; and the Christopher Award , TV/Cable Category , ( 2005 ) .

neg: A Woman Named Jackie A Woman Named Jackie is a 1991 American television miniseries chronicling the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis . It was based on C. David Heymann 's 1989 book of the same title .   The miniseries was split into three parts :  A Woman Named Jackie , Part 1 : The Bouvier Years  A Woman Named Jackie , Part 2 : The Kennedy Years  A Woman Named Jackie , Part 3 : The Onassis Years

neg: Sex Slaves (film) Sex Slaves ( also Sex Slave $ ) is a 2005 documentary by Ric Esther Bienstock that was created in association with CBC , Channel 4 and Canal D . It provides a firsthand account of international human trafficking by going to the countries such as Moldova and Ukraine where girls are recruited , then following the trail to the various countries and locales where they end up . Interviews with traffickers , experts , police vice-squads and former sex slaves , along with undercover footage , provide a glimpse into the frightening reality and scope of the problem .   One husband 's journey is documented as he attempts to rescue his pregnant wife who was sold by a trafficker who befriended them , to a notoriously powerful and violent pimp in Turkey .   Sex Slaves won numerous awards , including a 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism , the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America , a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television , a British Broadcast Award for Best Documentary . a Royal Television Society Award from the UK and a BAFTA nomination , among others .

neg: Wide Angle (TV series) Wide Angle is an American documentary television series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for broadcast on PBS and for worldwide distribution . The weekly one-hour series covered international current affairs and was last hosted by veteran journalist Aaron Brown . Wide Angle began broadcasting on PBS in 2002 , and aimed to expand the awareness and understanding of Americans about the changing world in which they live . It was the only documentary series on American television devoted exclusively to reporting in-depth on international issues . Following its final season it was nominated for a 2010 International Documentary Association Continuing Series award .

neg: Hillary: The Movie Hillary : The Movie is a 2008 political documentary about United States Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . It was produced by the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United . The film was scheduled to be offered as video-on-demand on cable TV right before the Democratic primaries in January 2008 , but as `` electioneering communication '' to do so was illegal under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act which was enforced by the Federal Election Commission . The producers went to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to get a declaration that they could show their movie and promotional ads for it despite BCRA . This case was titled Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and its final decision at the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in a major change in campaign finance law .   The documentary interviewed various conservative figures such as Dick Morris and Ann Coulter and reviewed various scandals in which Hillary Clinton purportedly participated , such as the White House travel office controversy , White House FBI files controversy , Whitewater controversy , and cattle futures controversy . The factual finding of the three-judge district court was that there was `` no reasonable interpretation -LSB- of the movie -RSB- other than as an appeal to vote against Senator Clinton '' , thus making it `` electioneering communication '' . The Supreme Court did not change that decision , but applied the strict scrutiny test for the First Amendment of the Constitution and said corporations could not be banned from making electioneering communications .

neg: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program The Primetime Emmy Award for Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program is awarded to one television documentary or nonfiction series each year .   Prior to 2006 , nonfiction and reality programs competed together until the Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming category was created .   In the following list , the first titles listed in gold are the winners ; those not in gold are nominees , which are listed in alphabetical order . The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place .   __ TOC __

neg: 30 Minutes (TV series) 30 Minutes is an American educational news magazine television series that aired on CBS on Saturdays from 1978 to 1982 following its Saturday morning cartoon lineup . Patterned after 60 Minutes , its topics ranged from acne and rock bands to the Ku Klux Klan and juvenile defendants .

neg: List of former NBC television affiliates The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American broadcast television network that originated as a radio network in November 1926 , and expanded into television in April 1939 . Throughout its history , the network has had many owned-and-operated and affiliated stations .   This article is a table listing of former NBC stations , arranged alphabetically by state , and based on the station 's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area ; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former NBC-affiliated station ( if the station remains operational ) and the current NBC affiliates in each of the listed markets , as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station 's disaffiliation from the network . There are links to and articles on each of the stations , describing their histories , local programming and technical information , such as broadcast frequencies .   The station 's advertised channel number follows the call letters . In most cases , this is their virtual channel ( PSIP ) number , which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network .

neg: Jeff Fager Jeff Fager ( born December 10 , 1954 ) is the former Chairman of CBS News and the current Executive Producer of 60 Minutes , the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968 .

neg: Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story Poor Little Rich Girl : The Barbara Hutton Story is a 1987 television biographical drama starring Farrah Fawcett . The film chronicles the life of Barbara Hutton , a wealthy but troubled American socialite . Released as both a television movie and a mini series , the film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film . Fawcett earned her fifth Golden Globe Award nomination , for Best Actress in a Miniseries of Television Film .

neg: Flight 175: As the World Watched Flight 175 : As the World Watched is an American television documentary film that premiered in August 2006 on TLC . It covers the final moments of the passengers and crew on board United Airlines Flight 175 , which was the second commercial airliner to strike the World Trade Center , impacted with the South Tower , and was the most visually documented ( both photographed and filmed ) flight during the September 11 attacks .   The documentary features interviews with a variety of people , including :  relatives of the passengers and crew members , some of whom received final phone calls from their loved ones ,  air traffic controllers who responded to the doomed flight , and  the two F-15 fighter pilots scrambled from Otis Air National Guard Base who flew in the airspace over Lower Manhattan during the event .

neg: The Law Firm The Law Firm is an American reality competition series which aired on NBC from July 28 , 2005 , until August 4 , 2005 . It features up-and-coming lawyers competing against each other while trying real court cases with real clients , in front of real judges and juries , resulting in outcomes that are final , legal and binding for the parties . The grand prize is $ 250,000 . Trial attorney and legal analyst Roy Black is the managing partner of The Law Firm . As managing partner , Black decides who will be eliminated each week .   5.08 million viewers tuned into the premiere and later dipped to 4.04 million for its second episode thus leading NBC to pull the series off the air . The remaining episodes aired on Bravo .

neg: Fawcett Society The Fawcett Society is an organisation in the United Kingdom that campaigns for women 's rights . The organisation 's roots date back to 1866 , when Millicent Garrett Fawcett dedicated her life to the peaceful campaign for women 's suffrage .   It is a charity registered with the Charity Commission and has a membership of around 3,000 alongside some high-profile supporters such as Jenni Murray , Bill Bailey , Kate Mosse , Josie Long and Patrick Stewart .   The organisation states that it campaigns on `` women 's representation in politics and public life ; pay , pensions and poverty ; valuing caring work ; and the treatment of women in the justice system '' . It uses `` independent research and evidence to better understand key issues and generate media coverage , reports and briefings that both increase awareness and put pressure on powerful policy and decision makers to act . ''   There are autonomous , self managed , regional Fawcett Society groups which work in their local areas , from East London to Bristol to safeguard the rights of women .   The library and archives of the Society , formerly the Fawcett Library , are now part of the Women 's Library at the British Library of Political and Economic Science , the main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science .

neg: Factual television Factual television is a genre of non-fiction television programming that documents actual events and people . These types of programs are also described as documentary , observational documentary , fly on the wall , docudrama , and reality television . Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television , the term factual television has most commonly been used to describe programs produced since the 1990s .

neg: The Long Island Incident The Long Island Incident is a 1998 NBC-TV movie produced by Barbra Streisand 's Barwood Films . The teleplay by Maria Nation is based on the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting .

neg: Family Secrets (TV series) Family Secrets is a television documentary series which premiered in February 2003 , created and produced by Maureen Judge .   The 30 minute episodes featured raw , compelling and honest accounts of the impact of secrets on families and their lives . The show used a mix of fly-on-the-wall style observational scenes , informal interviews , home movies , and other material . Each episode features a different family , taking viewers on an intensely personal , humorously nervous and emotionally moving journey into the private world of family relationships .

neg: Wide Wide World Wide Wide World was a 90-minute documentary series telecast live on NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4pm Eastern . Conceived by network head Pat Weaver and hosted by Dave Garroway , Wide Wide World was introduced on the Producers ' Showcase series on June 27 , 1955 . The premiere episode , featuring entertainment from the US , Canada and Mexico , was the first international North American telecast in the history of the medium .   It returned in the fall as a regular Sunday series , telecast from October 16 , 1955 to June 8 , 1958 . The program was sponsored by General Motors and Barry Wood was the executive producer . Nelson Case was the announcer . In March 1956 , Time magazine reported that it was the highest-rated daytime show on television .   Garroway was the host of the series which featured live remote segments from locations throughout North America and occasional reports on film from elsewhere in the world . The series carried live events into four million households . The October 16 premiere , `` A Sunday in Autumn , '' featured 50 cameras in 11 cities , including a college campus , the fishing fleet at Gloucester , Massachusetts , rainswept streets in Manhattan and Monitor broadcasting in NBC 's Radio Central studio . An appearance by Dick Button ice skating at Rockefeller Center was canceled because the rain had washed away the ice , and a curious coverage by a nervous Ted Husing of an attempt by Donald Campbell to break a speed record showed nothing more than his boat , on the other side of the lake , failing to take off . Time reviewed :   NBC 's Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map . The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi , poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves , wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets . There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center , the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair , an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell 's jet racer at Arizona 's man-made Lake Mead . Always there was the immediacy of things happening this very minute , but the real brilliancy of Wide World may lie in its avoidance of the TV interview . The only one attempted , at the Texas Fair , proved again that -- given a microphone and someone to interview -- an announcer can turn any subject into a crashing bore . The words needed in Wide World were supplied by Dave Garroway and kept to a literate minimum .   Other episodes : `` New Orleans '' ( February 2 , 1958 ) , `` American Theater ' 58 '' ( March 16 , 1958 ) , `` Flagstop at Malta Bend '' ( March 30 , 1958 ) and `` The Museum of Modern Art '' ( April 27 , 1958 ) .

neg: A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady of the United States , Jacqueline Kennedy on a tour of the recently renovated White House . It was broadcast on Valentine 's Day , February 14 , 1962 , on both CBS and NBC , and broadcast four days later on ABC . The program was the first ever First Lady televised tour of the White House , and has since been considered the first prime-time documentary specifically designed to appeal to a female audience .   The film showed Kennedy on a tour of the house with the CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood . The filmed tour was the first glimpse the American public had had of the $ 2 million restoration of the White House that Kennedy had helped direct in the first year of her husband 's presidency .   The program was viewed by 80 million viewers , and globally syndicated to 50 countries including Russia and China .   Kennedy 's notes for the televised tour were among her personal papers that were publicly released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2012 . The papers showed that Kennedy made sure that the names of individual donors who had contributed to the costs of the renovation were included in the script .

neg: Harvest of Shame Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers . It was Murrow 's final documentary for the network ; he left CBS at the end of January 1961 , at John F. Kennedy 's request , to become head of the United States Information Agency . An investigative report intended `` to shock Americans into action , '' it was `` the first time millions of Americans were given a close look at what it means to live in poverty '' by their televisions .   The program was an installment of the television documentary series CBS Reports , widely seen as the successor to Murrow 's highly regarded 1951 -- 1958 CBS program See It Now . Murrow 's close associate , Fred W. Friendly , who coproduced See It Now , was the executive producer of CBS Reports . Their colleague , Edward P. Morgan , had taken up the issue of migrant labor in his CBS Radio Network commentaries . Morgan 's assistant had visited Senator Harry F. Byrd 's Northern Virginia farm during the apple harvest and was outraged by the conditions of the migrant laborers working there . According to Murrow biographer Joseph Persico , Friendly decided that the issue was a natural for Murrow , long seen as a champion of the oppressed .   While Murrow and Friendly are often seen as the forces behind the show , broadcast historians such as the late Edward Bliss , Jr. have also given credit to `` Harvest of Shame '' producer/reporter David Lowe . Lowe did much of the legwork , including a number of the interviews featured on the installment .   The program originally aired just after Thanksgiving Day in November 1960 . The December 5 , 1960 edition of Time quoted producer Lowe as saying ,   We felt that by scheduling the program the day after Thanksgiving , we could stress the fact that much of the food cooked for Thanksgiving throughout the country was picked by migratory workers . We hoped that the pictures of how these people live and work would shock the consciousness of the nation .