Category: reviews

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Yo Soy Betty, La Fea

Yo Soy Betty, La Fea is a Colombian telenovela released in 1999 that ran for 169 one-hour episodes and spawned several re-adaptations around the world. It is about a highly prepared Economics graduate who settles for a job as a secretary because she always loses jobs to less prepared but prettier people.

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You Are the Apple of my Eye

Taiwan’s biggest surprise of 2011 — also being pretty popular in Hong Kong and Singapore — a romantic drama called You Are the Apple of my Eye. But what’s so amazingly appealing about a simple romantic drama involving teenagers, you say?

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You’re Next (2011)

What Scream once did for the slasher, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett have done for home invasion with You’re Next, an impressive and incredibly entertaining subversion of the subgenre.

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Young Avengers #1-5

In 2012, Marvel Comics gave us Marvel NOW!, a relaunch of several ongoing comic books. That means several comics restarted with a #1 issue. Amongst them was Young Avengers.

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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

A creature believed to be a sea dragon destroys the Tang Dynasty’s ships, a courtesan is offered as sacrificed and a love story ends up entangled with the dirty plans to topple the government once and for all.