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Ninja Gaiden II
Review by Kikelingygler
"...And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!"
Those not familiar with the 100% accurate website about ninjas detailing how awesome they are probably don't know what that means. But rest assured, Ninja Gaiden II is (almost) every bit as awesome as ninjas are. You'll see sweet weapons, awesome blood effects, body parts getting lopped off, incredible graphics, you may recognize some levels if you were among the few who played the DS game, and you will wonder when the developers will make the decision on what system they're making their games for. Before I get on to the actual review, I'd like to make one more note:
This game will make you crap your pants.
Graphics: 10/10
Graphics are considered by some to be completely irrelevant. I used to think I was one of those people, but I'm not, and this game does not disappoint. Rain effects, blood effects, level design...I don't think there was a single thing that was under my expectations. Body parts fly, blood splatters, and you will even occasionally see Ryu shake the blood off of his weapon (the weapons also look awesome). Even the enemies are sweet; they don't just act normal when you remove a limb, they start crawling and even using their other arm, just as menacingly as before. Everyone moves as humanly as possible, and, I suppose if you fancy that sort of thing, the breast physics on the particularly well endowed women also got included. I think if they had made the way Ryu moves and fights look any cooler, my head would explode. After-images, teleporting, setting people on fire...you name it, it doesn't just look pleasing to the eye, it looks awesome/sweet/dope/cool/whatever, you get the point (probably).
Sound: 10/10
I'm not big on sound in video games. The music doesn't overpower, and it's not non-existent. Sort of like other games I liked, like Morrowind, the music is there to be music, no more, no less. It sets the mood and it fits the game. Sword clashes sound like sword clashes, flipping jumps sound like flipping jumps, and best of all, a ninja being brutally slaughtered sounds like a ninja being brutally slaughtered. Extra points go to the first person who can guess which adjective I almost used there.
Story: 10/10
The story makes a lot of sense, and so far it has performed exactly as I wanted it to. It makes itself known and then it lets me fight. (As opposed to interrupting me every five minutes, but I won't get myself started about that...) Basically, the villains are trying to bring in something called the Great Fiend (fiends are basically the monsters of Ninja Gaiden), which I'm assuming would be a pretty bad thing for Earth and its inhabitants. From certain dialog, I'm pretty sure that plot twists, which I love, are coming at some point, and that you can't instantly tell everything about a character by looking at them. In other words, it's looking like it's going to hit the spot.
Gameplay: 10/10
Ah, gameplay. The soul of the game. This game and its three predecessors have been described as "hard", "too hard", "way too hard", "too ****ing hard", and on occasion "difficult". Part of the game's grace is that it starts at a reasonable difficulty, and then goes up. And up. And up. And then you get to Master Ninja difficulty and it keeps going up. It requires skill, reflexes, and an understanding of how your moves work. In this sequel, the game tells you how to do the really cool things like Ultimate Techniques and informs you of the benefits of doing them instead of just expecting you to figure it out on your own/read the instruction booklet. There are loads upon loads of different moves and combos for the weapons, which all handle differently. Apparently, there are even achievements for playing through the entire game using only one weapon. You also end up learning the enemies and what they're capable of; excessive blocking is usually not the best choice. Enemies change behaviors after being relieved of a limb, often resorting to kamikaze attacks which are especially damaging, though they are equally easy to kill (in some of the most awesome ways possible). They will resort to different attacks depending on what's going on (like throwing you when you block too much, having the intelligence to switch to a melee weapon when you start closing in on them, etc.) This game has something too many games are forgetting: BOSSES. Hard bosses. Bosses so big that they don't fit on screen. Bosses that are really fun. I haven't been so happy about bosses since Shadow of the Colossus came out, and that game is literally ONLY bosses. Overall, really, really fun.
Overall: Awesome/10
This is probably the biggest breath of fresh air in the way of good games that I have had in a while. This game literally oozes fun, it's so awesome that your TV will explode and ninjas will jump out of your eyelids.
Final Recommendation: BUY. If you're not big on ninjas or single player run-to-the-end-of-the-level-and-kill-everything games, or find that you finish games really fast and have no desire to ever play them again (I mean, this game has replay value, but not like Dynasty Warriors style replay value where you accidentally realize you've played it 10 times in a row), you may want to rent first and try it out. But if you want to flip out and kill things for extended periods of time, through an old school style platformer/beat-em-up, this is the game for you.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 06/06/08
Game Release: Ninja Gaiden II (US, 06/03/08)
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Customisation means to build, fit, or alter something according to an individual's need or specifications.
In the automotive industry, customisation is very often seen to be taken to the next level.
There are people who are crazy and talented enough to merge two things of different polarities to as if they were meant to be.
There have been a lot of great and notable people involved with customising motorcycles, just for the sheer joy and pleasure of it.
There has been a motorcycle chassis built out of chains, even motorcycles built with powerful car engines and truck engines.
This person in the video however, has decided to custom build a bike, but only decided to build the motorcycle around the engine!
It sounds like a supercar and goes like one as well. That's because it is powered by a supercar engine.
The car chosen is not just any car but a V12 engine straight off a Lamborghini!

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Comparison of Infection Rates Among Patients Using Two Catheter Access Devices
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Intravenous catheters are placed in nearly every hospitalized patient. These catheters, since they are breaks in skin integrity, are potential sources of infection that occur in the bloodstream. Bloodstream infections can result in higher rates of death and lengths of hospital stay, as well as increase healthcare costs. Blood is drawn or medications delivered through a catheter access device attached to the catheter. In looking at new ways to decrease infections associated with healthcare, the investigators plan to test whether the use of a silver-coated catheter access device (VLINK) compared to the standard, non-coated device (CLEARLINK) can reduce infection rates. These devices are identical in design other than the silver coating of the VLINK, that imparts a brown color to the device. Silver can prevent the growth of bacteria inside the device (biofilm formation) in the laboratory, but this has never been proven in patients.
The investigators propose to do a crossover study in two Emory-owned hospitals (Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital at Midtown), anticipated to last 10 months. Currently, both types of devices, (standard and silver-coated) are FDA approved for clinical use and are in use at both hospitals. The investigators plan to have each hospital use only one type of catheter access device for a period of time (approximately 5 months), and then switch ("crossover") to other type of device for the rest of the study. All patients admitted to either hospital (excluding newborns and patients with infections attributed to hemodialysis catheters) will be enrolled since both devices meet the standard of care. During the study, the infection prevention department, as a continuing part of their regular duties will measure infection rates. A small subset of catheters that are removed during routine clinical care (none will be taken out solely for the study) will be sent to CDC to determine the amount of bacteria inside catheters and catheter access devices (look for biofilm). Finally, the microbiology lab, again as part of its routine function will determine the rate at which blood cultures are falsely positive. All of these measures will be compared using statistical methods to see if there is a difference between the standard and silver-coated catheter access devices.
In undertaking this study, the investigators will be using a type of vascular access device (valve, not positive pressure) already in use in both hospitals and not changing the delivery of care to patients while, in a rigorous, systematic manner, obtaining samples and data for analysis.
|Catheter-Related Infections Bacteremia
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Crossover
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Comparison of a Novel Silver-Coated Catheter Access Device and a Standard Catheter Access Device: A Dual Center Cross-Over Study
- central-line associated bloodstream infections rate per 1,000 central line-days [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- intravenous catheter related bloodstream infection rate per 1,000 patient-days [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- colony counts per device analyzed (biofilm analysis) [ Time Frame: devices due to be changed at day 7 ]
- false positive blood culture rate [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
|Study Start Date:
|November 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Clearlink Arm, EUH
Standard catheter access device at Emory University Hospital
VLINK Arm, EUHM
Novel, silver-coated catheter access device at Emory University Hospital Midtown
Clearlink, EUM
Standard catheter access device at at Emory University Hospital Midtown
VLINK Arm, EUH
Novel, silver-coated catheter access device at Emory University Hospital
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- All adult patients admitted to the two participating hospitals.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Catheter-associated infections attributed to hemodialysis catheters.
- Neonates and children.
- Known silver allergy or hypersensitivity.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00965198
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University Hospital
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30033
|Emory University Hospital Midtown
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|Principal Investigator:
|James P Steinberg, MD
|Emory University
|Study Director:
|Jesse T Jacob, MD
|Emory University
|Study Director:
|Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor, MD
|Emory University
|Responsible Party:
|Jesse Thomas Jacob, Investigator, Emory University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00965198 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
B16682 ( Other Identifier: Other )
|Study First Received:
|July 16, 2009
|Last Updated:
|November 19, 2013
Keywords provided by Jesse Thomas Jacob, Emory University:
Catheters, Indwelling
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Catheter-Related Infections
Bacterial Infections
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
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Hobos and Railroads in the 1930's
By: Ashlynn Frank
What led to the hobo lifestyle?
-Hobos were forced off farms and they heard of jobs 100 miles away from where they were at.
-The depression made it hard to work in and hard to find jobs in the 1930s.
- Hobos rode trains to travel to a place so that they could find work
- Many hobos were skilled i various trades
- The hobos would sneak onto trains.
- Sometimes they would find work and settle down at that place
- Hobos liked being on their own.
What is the hobo lifestyle (danger and food)
-Some hobos would exchange art to get food for their family
- Some hobos were in danger when they jumped on the train to go to a different town in search for jobs. Sometimes their leg would get caught in the trains wheel or they would fall out of the boxcar.
What lead to the decline of the hobo lifestyle?
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If you like board games, we will get along swimmingly.
If you don't like puns, nihilistic humor, or dry sarcasm goes over your head; then not so much.
I'm very chill and easy to get along with, despite constant snark. I'm plain speaking, cold, and distant at first. Once I warm up to people, I get very comfortable very quickly. I graduated from CWU with a Bachelor's in Russian Foreign Language minoring in Linguistics. I love word puns and most of my best humor is off the cuff, dad joke level puns.
I have a very eclectic taste in music ranging from folk metal to 80's pop.
Currently seeking new employment opportunities and keeping myself afloat with painting commissions.
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The Siblings:** **'Baby' Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) and Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford)
What puts them at odds?** **'Baby' Jane was a child star, but later in life found herself overshadowed by the more talented Blanche. But when the latter's career, and freedom, were ended by a tragic accident, Jane becomes her sister's keeper.
Families take care of one another, and that's generally a good thing. But what if you were left helpless and in your sister's tender hands, knowing that she doesn't like you very much? What if, in fact, she was losing her mind and developing increasingly violent tendencies? That's the dilemma featuring Joan Crawford's Blanche in this classic slice of Grand Guignol. Of course, the on-screen rivalry nicely reflected the stars' well-publicised real-life antipathy, with reports that Crawford wore weight belts for scenes where Davis had to drag her along and that Davis was a little over-enthusiastic when acting the scene where Jane beats Blanche. The result is an immensely creepy chiller with a multi-layered battle between the two leads.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The Siblings:** Fredo (John Cazale) and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
What puts them at odds? **When younger brother Michael is chosen as head of the Corleone family business, oldest surviving brother Fredo is resentful, and turns to Michael's rivals for help in reasserting himself.
In most families, resentment is dealt with by years of silence and the occasional insult at weddings or Christmas get-togethers. In Mafia families, however, such disagreements can lead to assassination attempts, conspiracy, betrayal and internecine murder (but only after the death of the siblings' dear old mum). The moral of the story, then, is that one should try to talk these things out before it's too late, especially if you've known all along that your brother tried to kill you. Oh, and that fishing can be extremely bad for your health.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The Siblings:** **Charlie (Nicolas Cage) and Donald Kaufman (Nicolas Cage)
What puts them at odds?** **Serious, neurotic screenwriter Charlie is attempting the difficult job of adapting a novel called The Orchid Thief when his more outgoing brother Donald achieves success with a dumb action movie.
There are undoubtedly cases in life where a sibling's example has spurred someone on to greater heights of success, but there are very few in movies. Generally, when one succeeds onscreen the other comes under unbearable pressure to measure up, and the result is that they crumple into a small heap of failure and addiction to something-or-other. But in Adaptation, Charlie overcomes his professional jealousy and utter astonishment at his brother's overnight success when the pair are threatened by a homicidal author in a Florida swamp and Donald helps his brother escape. So begins a new and more understanding era in their relationship – which lasts for at least the next few minutes.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The Siblings:** **Step-siblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe)
What puts them at odds?** **Sebastian falls in love and develops a conscience – something that Kathryn cannot forgive.
We never meet the parents of these step-siblings, so we only speculate when we say that they must be awful, awful human beings. Their precocious offspring are so thoroughly corrupt, cynical and amoral that their progenitors must be something along the lines of Hannibal Lecter or there's no explanation. One would be tempted to suggest that this pair deserve each other save for Sebastian's redemption when he falls for the saintly (at least in comparison) Annette (Reese Witherspoon). And it's really important to remember here that they're step-siblings, not blood relations, otherwise the whole plot wherein Kathryn offers to sleep with Sebastian if he wins their bet goes from rather discomfiting to unbearably gross.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The Siblings: Mufasa (James Earl Jones) and Scar (Jeremy Irons)
What puts them at odds? Mufasa is big, magnificent and leader of his tribe. Scar is so jealous, his eyes have quite literally turned green.
The name "Mufasa" means "King" in the Manazoto language. The name "Scar" presumably means "treacherous, backstabbing bastard with a lust for power", because that's the appropriate description for Mufasa's little brother. Bitter, we guess, because he has an English accent like the local birds, instead of lion-like African-American tones, Scar plots against his brother for leadership of the tribe, and shows himself willing to resort to murder for his own ends. It doesn't end well for him, however, because while Scar might succeed in the short term, Mufasa's son, a veritable chip off the old block, has the last laugh.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The Siblings:** **Rose (Toni Collette) and Maggie (Cameron Diaz)
What puts them at odds? Rose, the older sister, is strait-laced and a little resentful of her free-wheeling younger sister Maggie even before the latter steals her precious shoes and sleeps with her boyfriend. Then she gets really angry.
An unusual film that treats sisterhood as seriously as brotherhood, In Her Shoes is not another chick-flick. Two women raised by a bipolar mother, one grows up repressed and sufficiently stressed to italicise an entire encyclopaedia, while the other can't commit to a job, a relationship or even to overcoming her dyslexia enough to learn to read. But while it takes a total break in their relationship to inspire each to sort out her life, it also becomes clear that neither feels complete without the other. While there are great heels and a couple of love interests in the mix, this is about as far from Sex & The City as you can get. It's more like Jerry Maguire – if the little kid was Shirley MacLaine and the goldfish was a pair of designer shoes.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The Siblings:** **Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Derek Huff (Adam Scott)
What puts them at odds?** **Brennan and Derek are polar opposites, the younger brother (Derek) an unstoppable striver while his older brother languishes in the parental nest.
The stepbrothers of the title, Brennan Huff and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly), actually get along very well once they realise how much they have in common. The real rivalry here is between Brennan and his over-achieving little brother Derek, who has married, produced two beautiful children and taught his brood to sing obnoxiously in close harmony. The slovenly Brennan can't compete on preppiness or grooming, but finally manages to connect with his brothers thanks to a moving rendition of 'Por Ti Volare' at the Catalina Wine Mixer. Music really does make the people come together. Just like Madonna said.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Gomez (Raul Julia) and Fester Addams (Christopher Lloyd)
What puts them at odds?** **'Gordon' has been raised by a manipulative loan shark as her own son and is sent to pose as the long-lost Addams brother and steal the family treasure. But he really is the long-lost Fester Addams!
Amnesia: it's not just a problem for your love life or the search for your wife's killer. It can also seriously mar family gatherings, when clinical forgetfulness leads you to believe you are in fact an outsider who hates your own clan and is out to get them. Amnesia could lead you to lock your family out of the family mansion and reduce them to penury – at least until you get struck by lightning and regain your memory. The Addams would be horrified by the notion of a moral, however, so we won't draw one from this little tale. We'll just note that Fester was always a natural Addams.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Prince Albert, the future King George VI (Colin Firth) and Prince Edward (Guy Pearce)
What puts them at odds? The small matter of who will run the country after the death of their father, King George V. No pressure.
Bertie, the second son of King George V, never wanted to be the monarch, so you understand his frustration with playboy prince brother Edward, who enjoys the high life and causes a scandal by pulling the eject cord on the throne with the Wallis Simpson affair. The pair bicker about responsibility even as the newly crowned George VI struggles with his unkingly stammer and worries about the crushing weight of the royal gig. It's the sort of meaty fraternal dispute and personal drama that nabs awards, so we imagine Paul Bettany is still kicking himself for passing on the part, which won Colin Firth an Oscar.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and Wes Mantooth (Vince Vaughn)
What puts them at odds?** **Burgundy's the peacock anchorman at Channel 4. Wes is the central news talent at Channel 9, stuck in second in the ratings. And, as a deleted scene reveals, Wes is Ron's half-brother. It sort of puts all that talks of Dorothy Mantooth and sainthood into a new light, doesn't it?
Even if you never knew of the secret connection between Wes and Ron, their burning rivalry is surely enough to hint at a family link. Wes hates Ron – hates him – but goddamn, does he respect him. While the insults flying thick and fast, it's Wes who comes off worse initially. And their rumble provides for one of the film's comedy highlights as the clash between the two channels ends up as a massive brawl with various news crews, and at least one trident-induced death. We don't know what Mantooth will be up to in the sequel, but we're looking forward to finding out.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman)
What puts them at odds?** **Mary becomes mistress to Henry VIII, putting her entire family in line for advancement and favour. But as the King's affections wane, her sister Anne leaps into the breach.
Blame the father and the uncle – or perhaps the patriarchy. Firstly, they tried to set up Anne with the king in order to gain riches and positions of power for themselves. When that didn't take, they pushed Mary to fill the gap. Then, when Mary was confined following her pregnancy with Henry's son, the devious pair brought Anne back from abroad and once again thrust her at the King – with first regal and later headless consequences. Even so, one can't help thinking that if the sisters had talked a little more, they could have avoided all those accusations of adultery, treason and witchcraft against Anne and their brother George (Jim Sturgess).
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings: Jesse (Joseph Cotton) and Lewt McCanles (Gregory Peck)
What puts them at odds?** **Family loyalty and a violent disagreement over their shared affection for Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) at a time when such things were usually settled with gunfire.
There was already tension between Jesse and Lewt before Pearl is brought to live with their family. Jesse has sided against the family with railroad men, which conflicts with Senator Jackson McCanles's (Lionel Barrymore) interests. Soon Jesse is ostracised and Lewt is free to make a lecherous run at Pearl, who initially gives in to his advances until he refuses to marry her and goes on to kill the man she does decide to wed. Naturally, everything ends happil… Actually, spoiler alert! It doesn't end well for Pearl or Lewt.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet Donnelly (Bill Paxton)
What puts them at odds?** **Chet is the demanding, military-obsessed older brother to nerd Wyatt, and constantly blackmails his younger sibling.
It's John Hughes again, once more finding emotional truth in a bizarre situation. In this case, Wyatt and best pal Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) conjuring up a seemingly perfect woman (Kelly LeBrock) using a computer and a little supernatural assistance. While things soon get out of control, it's eventually Lisa who solves Wyatt's sibling problem, briefly turning Chet into a blobby grey mutant creature until he apologises and promises to stop torturing his younger bro. Please note that solving family issues in this way is something that only works in movies, or if you're related to Dumbledore.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Margot (Nicole Kidman) and Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh)
What puts them at odds?** **Pauline announces she's getting wed to slacker Malcolm (Jack Black), who Margot cannot stand. Soon, the bubbling cauldron of family secrets and strain comes to a boil as the sisters spar.
Given how much pressure weddings and their associated stresses put on families, it's a wonder anyone on film agrees to get hitched at all. But when you've got a sister as startlingly unpleasant as Kidman's Margot, you're probably safer trying to keep her away from the event as much as possible. Who would ever trust that woman with anything said in confidence? Only family could be so blind and unaware. To help build that dysfunctional relationship, Kidman, Leigh and Black all shared a house. Wish we could've been a fly on the wall at those improv sessions…
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Kathleen "Kiki" (Julia Roberts) and Gwen Harrison (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
What puts them at odds?** **Gwen is one of the world's biggest movie stars, who has split from long-term love Eddie Thomas (John Cusack) and taken up with Latino lover Hector (Hank Azaria). Now Eddie is falling for Gwen's sister Kiki…
This is a frantic, insider Hollywood farce that finds egos flaring like supernovas and multiple layers of double-dealing. Gwen is typical movie star material – blindly egotistical, self-obsessed and driven by passions – while Kiki, working as her assistant, has lost a lot of weight and suddenly looks like Julia Roberts. It's no wonder there's competition. Throw in various lovers and hangers-on and you've got a headache for any publicist, in this case Billy Crystal's Lee Phillips. While it's hardly in the same league as, say, The Player, Joe Roth liked the script so much it became his first directorial job in 11 years, taking over from Crystal.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Tommy Riordan (Tom Hardy) and Brendan Conlon (Joel Edgerton)
What puts them at odds?** **There's history here, but in the short term both desperately need to win the Sparta mixed martial arts tournament to provide for a needy family (Brendan's own, or the family of one of Tommy's former Marine buddies).
Testosterone practically drips off the screen in this fairytale about big muscly men learning to forgive one another and express brotherly love via the medium of shoulder dislocation. Both fierce fighters, former Marine Tommy and teacher Brendan have had a tough break: growing up with an alcoholic father forced them to choose between their needy parents and each carries some resentment for the other's choice. But as they head for a final showdown here, it's good to know that they achieve some sort of reconciliation by beating seven bells out of each other. The result is enough to reduce the manliest man to manly tears.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Danielle (Drew Barrymore), Marguerite (Megan Dodds) and Jacqueline (Melanie Lynskey)
What puts them at odds?** **The clue is in the subtitle there: Danielle is supposedly the basis for the Grimm brothers' Cinders, though only Marguerite in this version treats her step-sister badly; Jacqueline is portrayed as sweet, kind and clumsy.
In what could be called Cinderella: Origins, Danielle is a downtrodden orphan whose stepmother (Anjelica Huston as the domineering Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent) treats her like a servant until our heroine meets Prince Henry (Dougray Scott). Barrymore makes for a pleasingly proactive Cinders, more Merida than the Disney original, and she still deals with plenty of sisterly opposition, with Marguerite a scheming Mean Girl in this forced family. Drawing from both the Grimm brothers' take and Charles Perrault's 1729 version, and throwing in some Leonardo da Vinci for good measure, it's a fairytale with a little bit of added bite amid the schmaltz.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Ferris (Matthew Broderick) and Jeanie Bueller (Jennifer Grey)
What puts them at odds?** **Ferris is the king of school slacker pranks, and displays a Teflon-like ability to get away with it. Jeanie is endlessly frustrated by this. When he skips school for a day, she aims to prove he's a truant.
Brothers and sisters often have a tough time getting along, and when your younger bro is a smug, smart and charming brat, it's even worse. So you can understand why Jeanie might get sick of Ferris's schemes and try to throw a spanner in the works. John Hughes plays up the sibling tension perfectly here, using it as just one plot in a funny, linked story about Ferris deciding to spend the day in Chicago with best pal Cameron (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara). As ever with Hughes, there's genuine emotional honesty underpinning the comic madness and the Bueller family feels real, but we're still relieved that a quick snog with Charlie Sheen's drug addict gives Jeanie a kinder perspective on her errant sibling.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) and Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside)
What puts them at odds?** **Let's just say they have very different ideas on how to use their incredible telepathic powers.
Everyone remembers the exploding head bit – it's one of the most iconic horror scenes in cinema history – but the relationship between Vale and Revok goes deeper than that. After all, the former learns that he's actually the latter's brother and that their powers are the result of side effects from a drug supplied to pregnant in a dastardly plot to round up and use "Scanners" as security officers. Revok plans to take over the world with an army of Scanners; Vale is understandably pretty iffy about it all. A telepathic duel commences and the outcome, we suppose, sees the brothers united. In a sense.
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The siblings:** **Jane (Katherine Heigl) and Tess Nichols (Malin Akerman)
What puts them at odds?** **Jane is sick of always being the bridesmaid, never the bride. When her sister Tess gets engaged – to the man Jane is in love with – she's enraged.
Her sister is more outgoing, relaxed and bubbly than Katherine Heigl's Jane herself, but she's okay with that. What Jane is less okay with is her sister stealing her would-be boyfriend (and boss) George (Ed Burns), especially since she's done it by pretending to be a vegetarian hiker with a keen interest in the environment. And then Tess merrily books the venue where Jane had always hoped to get married, and cuts up their mother's wedding dress for good measure. In the circumstances, she should probably consider herself lucky that Jane only sabotages her wedding rehearsal dinner and stops short of actually punching her.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Boromir (Sean Bean) and Faramir (David Wenham)
What puts them at odds?** **Denethor (John Noble) loved Boromir more. Boromir went off to help the Fellowship and ended up as an Uruk-hai arrow pincushion. Denethor was irate.
Poor old Faramir, a proud warrior who just wants to prove himself and win acceptance from his dad. Sadly, pop has been driven nuts (as we learn in Return Of The King and the extended Two Towers) and even before that, preferred his older brother Boromir. So you can almost sympathise with Faramir when he spots a chance to take The One Ring to Gondor. Despite his desire to please the old man and offer some comfort after his brother's death, however, he wises up and lets Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) go on their way. Oh, and if his dad's favouritism for Boromir being the better son wasn't bad enough, Denethor is also obsessed with someone called Peter in another univ… Hang on, no, that's Fringe.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Iracebeth of Crims, the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and Mirana of Marmoreal, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway)
What puts them at odds?** **It's the old story of one queen usurping the other's throne. The Red Queen rules as a tyrant while the White Queen remains in her own castle, too afraid of her power to fight back.
One has a massive head and the soul of a toddler. The other is a punk-rock princess with a shock of white hair and an overly pleasant attitude that hides a spine of steel. You can see why these two don't get on. Of course, it all ends like any sisterly dispute: with a whopping great battle, although admittedly few arguments outside Wonderland also feature a Jabberwocky. Tim Burton's billion-dollar adaptation might hinge on the story of Mia Wasikowska's Alice, but the warring women drive the plot and in Bonham Carter's case, offer a lot of the laughs.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Dewey (John C. Reilly / Conner Rayburn) and Nate Cox (Chip Hormess)
What puts them at odds?** **Tragedy strikes when seven-year old Dewey accidentally slices his brother Chip in half with a machete. The trauma – and his parents' reaction to it – informs Dewey's life as he rises to become a musical superstar.
Of course, it's a ridiculous incident that sparks all of Dewey Cox's trouble. What else would you expect from a film that acts as a distinctly underrated (and definitely under-seen) parody of biopics like Walk The Line and Ray? But Reilly plays it straight, dwelling endlessly on the accident that left him "smell-blind" and powered his musical success. It doesn't hurt that his father (Raymond J. Barry) spends most of the film declaring that, "The wrong kid died!". With co-writers Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow in full flow (plus plenty of improvisation from the cast), it's a sweet, silly and ultimately beautiful ride, while serving as a warning that kids really shouldn't play with machetes.
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The siblings:** **Kym (Anne Hathaway) and Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt)
What puts them at odds?** **A wedding should be a happy event to bring families together, but stress and drama can also lurk around every decorated corner. Especially when the bride-to-be has chosen a friend over her troubled, addict sister for maid of honour and said sis is released from rehab to attend…
Jonathan Demme's film focuses on one very messed up family, whose patriarch (Bill Irwin) largely refuses to acknowledge its failings. There's crackling tension between Rachel and Kym, and Kym's painful, tragic past – including an incident that led to their younger brother's death – weighs heavily upon the attempted happiness of the wedding as old wounds tear open and doses of salt are poured in. All the performances are incredibly raw and honest, none more so than Hathaway, who was handed an Oscar nomination for her unflinching portrayal of a young woman haunted by her past and scared by her future.
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The siblings:** **Primarily Primus (Jason Flemyng) and Septimus (Mark Strong).
What puts them at odds?** **On his deathbed, the King of Stormhold (Peter O'Toole) throws a ruby into the sky, decreeing that the first of his seven sons to find it will win the throne. Soon, only two are left in the running.
Squabbling princes Primus and Septimus are just the tip of the fratricidal iceberg in this one, with five dead – but not gone – brothers in between, played as sarcastic spirits by Rupert Everett, Mark Heap, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adam Buxton and David Walliams. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman distil Neil Gaiman's fantasy tale for the big screen, and while it doesn't carry across all the magic, the sibling squabbling – and fratricidal enthusiasm – is a joy to behold. Gaiman himself approved: "It's a parallel Earth version of Stardust, which has Robert De Niro and stuff." In the end, it's down to lost sister Una (Kate Magowan) and her son Tristan (Charlie Cox) to take the crown.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Sam (Tobey Maguire) and Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal)
What puts them at odds?** **When Captain Sam Cahill goes off to fight in Afghanistan, ex-con younger bro Tommy arrives to live with Sam's wife Grace (Natalie Portman) and kids. But then Sam is shot down and imprisoned overseas, and upon his return, suspects he's been cuckolded…
Dealing with a screw-up of a brother must be difficult enough, but leaving your wife and kids to live with him, getting shot down and tortured in a foreign prison and having to come back while dealing with serious PTSD? We can easily imagine why Sam Cahill flips out. Adapted by director Jim Sheridan (and Game Of Thrones TV co-creator David Benioff) from Susanne Bier's original, it channels all the same fraternal frustration while somehow feeling a little less than Bier's film. Still, Gyllenhaal's heightened emotion here isn't entirely acting, as he learned of friend Heath Ledger's death in the middle of production and took time out to mourn.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty)
What puts them at odds?** **Dottie, who's pretty, proper, popular and a heck of a ball player, overshadows her younger sister Kit, who is pushing for her own moment in the limelight.
It's professional rivalry that's the problem here, although there's a sense that Kit has been under orders to measure up to her sister's standards long before league baseball became a prospect. Dottie's the immediate star, and when she becomes de facto coach of the sisters' team Kit begins to seriously resent her elder sister's success and feel that it's standing in the way of her own progress. Their final confrontation on the field, where Dottie drops a ball and Kit's new team wins the league, allows Kit the success she's craved – but there's always been a question in our minds whether the sticky-handed Dottie fumbled the catch on purpose and gave her sister the victory.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale)
What puts them at odds?** **The early years of boxer Micky Ward's life saw him living in the shadow of half-brother Dicky. But after the elder man suffers a defeat in the ring and dives into addiction hell and crime, Micky's star begins to rise.
It's bad enough to see your own glory fade; it's quite another to watch someone else – your brother and former sparring partner, no less – achieve much more than you ever could. And when such a situation occurs between brothers who know how to throw punches? Stand well back. Wahlberg was just as frustrated for years with this movie, having shepherded his passion project through financial struggles and multiple directors (he wanted Scorsese, and had Darren Aronofsky attached for a while) before Bale suggested David O. Russell. The resulting film scored six Oscar nominations and statuettes for Bale and Melissa Leo as the lads' mother. We like to think that its success is down to the brothers' decision to bury the hatchet and work together.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger Fitzgerald (Katharine Isabelle)
What puts them at odds?** **Ginger's bitten by a lycanthrope and starts to turn into a werewolf, with accompanying paranoia, anger-management issues and murderous tendencies.
The Fitzgerald sisters are so alike! Unhealthily obsessed with death, a bit weird, fond of black. Then Ginger gets bitten by a werewolf and it all goes from Goth to gory. Soon there's a body in the freezer, a couple more around the school and a disembowelled boy in the pantry. Brigitte is then in the tricky position of being stalked by a vicious beast that is also her beloved sister. This does not make for comfortable conversation around the family dinner table.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Samantha (Molly Ringwald) and Ginny Baker (Blanche Baker)
What puts them at odds?** **Sam is trying to celebrate her 16th birthday, but her family are too caught up planning older sister Ginny's wedding to notice – or even remember.
Coming of age agony. Romantic complications. Panties. It might sound like something out of the American Pie years, but this is John Hughes in his directorial debut at the beginning of a heck of a run. Ringwald cemented a working relationship with the director that later brought the world The Breakfast Club and (albeit only Hughes-scripted) Pretty In Pink. It's an often honest portrayal of teenage frustration and family failings, laced with sibling issues as Sam's older, seemingly sorted sister spurs the younger to embrace life.
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The siblings:** **Chas (Ben Stiller), Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Richie (Luke Wilson)
What puts them at odds?** **The pressures of growing up as child geniuses in the Tenenbaum household have driven the three gifted Tenenbaums – businessman, playwright and tennis player respectively – into mature failure and isolation from one another.
The sibling rivalry isn't immediately obvious in Wes Anderson's examination of this overachieving clan of New York intellectuals, but it's there all the same as the three offspring compete for their parents' attention even in adulthood. All driven back into the maternal nest by various crises, they lick their wounds and find a renewed sense of family as they forgive their errant father for past misdemeanours and consider starting a relationship (in the case of the adopted Margot and Richie, at least). The rivalry, ironically, is best given voice by clan outsider Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), who always wanted to be one of the Tenenbaums and never quite managed it.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings: Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) Tenor
What puts them at odds?** **Bob and Walt are conjoined twins, so when Walt pursues his dream of becoming a Hollywood star, Bob is dragged along for the ride.
Having a family is hard enough when you only see them semi-regularly. But when your brother is attached to you at all times, your differing interests can really put a strain on the relationship. So it is for conjoined twins Bob and Walt, as their closeness (both physical and otherwise) is put under pressure when they head to Hollywood in pursuit of Walt's acting career. The Farrelly brothers' film is ridiculous from soup to nuts, as you'd expect, but it has a warm heart under all the silliness and Cher cameos.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **George W. (Josh Brolin) and Jeb Bush (Jason Ritter)
What puts them at odds?** **One is the child groomed for political life and encouraged by his family to rise up the ranks. The other becomes President of the United States of America.
The real-life tension between America's most misunderestimated President, the man who single-handedly won the war in Iraq, and his brother Jeb is a relatively small part of Oliver Stone's film about Dubya. But it's there, driving some of the elder Bush's ambition and pushing him to transform from a college drunk and make something of himself. While we might have been better off with Jeb as the leader of the free world, the former Florida governor hasn't ruled out making a run in 2016, although he has yet to make a formal announcement on the matter. Stone brought the difference between the two to vivid life, which is impressive considering Brolin's natural charisma.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Nizam (Ben Kingsley) and Sharaman (Ronald Pickup)
What puts them at odds?** **Nizam wants the Kingdom for himself; Sharaman isn't aware of this until Nizam engineers his murder.
The rivalry here is mostly off-screen, but it boils down to this: Nizam's fed up of being number two and decides to take the throne for himself. There are only three tiny problems: his brother and two nephews. Oh, and adoptive nephew Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) who twigs the whole scheme and after many adventures (and some fights with his own brothers) travels back in time and unwinds Nizam's entire scheme with a magical doohickey. Of course, Sharaman should have known all along. There has never been a Grand Vizier-type who's been anything but bad news.
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The siblings:** **Cal (James Dean) and Aron Trask (Richard Davalos)
What puts them at odds?** **The moody, bitter Cal is obsessed with the idea that his father Adam (Raymond Massey) loves his brother Aron more than him.
A retelling of the Cain and Abel story, this is fraternal friction on a Biblical level. Set in 1917 as World War I rages, the brothers compete for daddy's affections through business, and spar over their feelings for Abra (Julie Harris), who becomes engaged to Aron but secretly loves Cal. The stress leads to Adam suffering a stroke, which actually helps knit the family back together. The tension onscreen was created partly through director Elia Kazan encouraging Dean to get drunk for emotional moments, which led to the actor provoking Massey so the father-son conflict had more spark to it.
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The siblings:** **Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) and Buzz McCallister (Devin Ratray)
What puts them at odds?** **It's a pure sort of sibling rivalry, this one: they just hate each other because they're different ages and at different stages of development.
These two just don't get along. It may be partly down to the fact that Kevin's an insufferable know-it-all with a smart mouth and Buzz is a natural bully without a smart anything, but really we suspect that even if they were more alike there'd still be friction. There's only room for one alpha male among the McCallister offspring, and at an age where siblings are almost guaranteed to fight, these two were always going to rub one another the wrong way. What's more, we can't help feeling that Kevin might have a point: how come Buzz gets a pet deadly spider and Kevin gets nothing comparable?
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The siblings:** **'Tom Stall' / Joey Cusack (Viggo Mortensen) and Richie Cusack (William Hurt)
What puts them at odds?** **Years before, Joey's penchant for violence left his brother Richie in hot water with the mob in Philadelphia – but Joey vanished. When Richie rediscovers him, he's still holding a grudge.
It's one thing to renounce violence, change your identity and go into hiding. It's quite another to renounce family, and it turns out here that Joey Cusack's brother took it rather personally when his troublemaking family member disappeared. The usually rather cuddly Hurt gives a chillingly vicious turn here as Richie, the brother who was left behind and who saw his own Mob career suffer following his brother's actions. Violence clearly runs in this family, and the extent of Richie's grudge makes it clear to Tom/Joey that only one sibling is likely to walk out of the room alive. It's like Thunderdome for brothers.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Hannah (Mia Farrow), Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest)
What puts them at odds?** **Lee has an affair with Hannah's husband; Holly borrows money from her sister before marrying Hannah's ex.
This is a Woody Allen film, so here is the sort of sibling relationship that involves a lot of talking and hand-waving rather than the sort that devolves into violence. Everyone's analyst gets a work-out, as successful actress and generally pulled-together sister Hannah props up her messier siblings and deals with the fallout from their emotional entanglements. That support holds even when she gets pulled into their tangled weave via her philandering husband. One of Allen's best films, this remains funny and unexpectedly warm, but it's the darker, sadder undercurrents that really give the characters a sense of life.
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The siblings:** **Louis XIV (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Philippe (Leonardo DiCaprio)
What puts them at odds?** **As soon as the Queen of France (Anne Parillaud) gives birth to twins, one is spirited away to be raised elsewhere lest there be a succession crisis. In adulthood, this lost brother, Philippe, is stuffed into an iron mask so no-one will see his similarity to the King.
Poor Philippe. While his brother gets to cut a swathe through the noblewomen of Europe, live in luxury and generally be the King, he is given a permanent ferrous facial and packed off to prison. Who'd be a twin? In fairness, the younger brother's imprisonment here is more a matter of political expedience than personal malice, but Louis doesn't exactly bend over backwards to right any wrongs when informed of his brother's existence – and he's so callous that it's hard to argue when four musketeers decide to stage a quiet fraternal coup.
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The siblings:** **Claudius (Basil Sydney) and King Hamlet (voiced as a ghost by Laurence Olivier)
What puts them at odds?** **Claudius decides to off his brother and marries his wife, Gertrude (Eileen Herlie), which doesn't sit well with Prince Hamlet (Olivier). But can our hero prove the foul deed?
Admittedly, one of the brothers here has been dead for about a month before the play even starts, but it's the alleged fratricide (which – spoiler for those who haven't read the original Shakespeare – turns out to be very real) that sets everything else in motion, leading to a blood-soaked tragedy of ever-increasing proportions. That's just how Elizabethan audiences liked it and how Laurence Olivier adapted it. So a royal sibling kills his brother and his king, takes over the throne and marries his brother's widow. It's a bit more serious than your sibling breaking your favourite toy, whichever way you look at it. Luckily (or perhaps not), young Hamlet is there to ferret out the truth (with the help of his father's ghost) and mete out justice.
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The siblings:** **Martin (Jake Thomas) and David (Haley Joel Osment)
What puts them at odds?** **When Martin awakes from a coma, his parents no longer need robotic substitute son David. They abandon him on the side of a road.
Technically, this is not a sibling relationship at all, but the way in which David is dealt with here serves as a microcosm of many family battles: one son is loved whatever his condition; the other finds that the affection shown to him is only an afterthought when his 'brother' is not available. It all ends tragically for David, abandoned by the woman he considers his mother when she chooses her real son over the robot boy. But David's love is steadfast, and endures through millennia under the ice, the end of civilisation and his rediscovery by robots. The heart-rending ending (envisaged by Kubrick and not Spielberg) sees David briefly reunited with his mother and finally given his own moment of family love.
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The siblings:** **Twins Kate and Patricia Bosworth (both Bette Davis) / Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips (ditto)
What puts them at odds?** **In A Stolen Life, Kate replaces her sister after she's washed overboard during a sailing trip. Dead Ringer finds Edith murdering Margaret and assuming her rich life – so the same basic idea.
Davis seems to have an affinity for playing twins, doing it twice to acclaim. As if mirroring the leads, these two films also have near-identical plots – how thematic! Stolen Life chronicles what happens when a woman assumes her sister's life and moves in with her husband, who she also loved back in the day. Dead Ringer has more of a crime noir feel, with Edith Phillips' scheme unravelling when old boyfriends come back into the picture and complicate matters. It's almost as if both films are trying to tell you that it's a bad idea to kill or replaced your twin. That, or it's a warning that one of every set of twins is born evil.
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The siblings:** **Taro (Akira Terao), Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu), and Saburo (Daisuke Ryû) of the once-mighty Ichimonji clan.
What puts them at odds?** **This Japanese reworking of King Lear sees Lord Hidetora Ichimonji decide to divide his kingdom among his three sons, a plan denounced by the youngest, Saburo, as foolishness.
Akira Kurosawa didn't precisely intend to re-imagine King Lear here - he was inspired by a real slice of Japanese history - but the results were much the same. After his father decides to divvy up his kingdom between his three sons, it turns out that youngest son Saburo was right to denounce it as a bad idea, and the kingdom soon dissolves into war and chaos. Taro's wife uses the transfer of power to seek revenge for past wrongs by turning the brothers against their father and one another, and a lifetime of tyranny bites both the aging ruler and his sons in the ass. If you thought Shakespeare's warring daughters got nasty, you ain't seen nothing until these warlords take sibling rivalry to a bloody, massacre-filled new level.
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The siblings:** **Kat (Julia Stiles) and Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik).
What puts them at odds?** **Bianca wants a normal school life – boys, dating, parties. Kat is more of a… how shall we put it, "heinous bitch" in the view of the school's men.
The Taming Of The Shrew is not so subtly reimagined in this successful rom-com, which finds Bianca and Kat bickering over the freedom they're allowed. Their father Walter (Larry Miller) has hit upon a genius idea to stave off teen pregnancy: Bianca can't date until Kat does. Cue screaming matches! But then Kat meets the rebellious, charming Patrick Verona (the late, lamented Heath Ledger, who could fill lakes with his buckets of charm here) and everything takes a turn for the flirtatious. Nothing like finding the prospect of love to warm a family's heart. And terrify a father…
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The siblings:** **Rameses (Ralph Fiennes) and adopted brother Moses (Val Kilmer)
What put them at odds?** **A burning bush.
Once, this pair were inseparable, racing their chariots around the half-built temple and having a merry old time. Then Moses learns the truth of his ancestry, accidentally kills an Egyptian guard and runs away into the desert to become a shepherd. After an encounter with some flaming shrubbery / the Almighty, he returns to lead his people to the Promised Land. Rameses has different ideas about letting his entire slave population bugger off, and so the stage is set for a quite-literally Biblical confrontation. If you're wondering who to bet on, it's the one with a direct line to Jehovah.
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The siblings:** **Conrad (Timothy Hutton) and Jordan "Buck" Jarrett (Scott Doebler)
What puts them at odds?** **It's tough when your older brother is the crown jewel of the family and you largely live in his shadow. But what happens when he dies? For Conrad, that means the heavy weight of survivor's guilt and a suicide attempt.
Robert Redford proved himself as a director with his very first time behind the camera. The painful family fallout from their older son's death and the twisted emotions that followed saw Redford win Best Director and Hutton Best Supporting Actor, while the film took Best Picture and Best Adapted screenplay along with two other nominations. It's not tough to see why. Adapted by Alvin Sargent from Judith Guest's book, this is an unflinching look at a young man's breakdown and recovery following his brother's death, and the impact on everyone around him.
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The siblings:** **Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt) and Samuel Ludlow (Henry Thomas)
What puts them at odds?** **When Samuel brings home a girl from college, Susannah (Julia Ormond), both his brothers fancy her, but she and Tristan can't quite help themselves from getting it on.
Ah, l'amour, that perennial thorn in the side of previously close families. The gorgeous Julia Ormond manages to thoroughly tear through this lot, falling madly in love with Tristan even after she's engaged to Samuel. All three brothers go off to fight in World War I, but Samuel's death just makes everyone more tortured and tormented (albeit still ravishingly handsome). Cue agony, scalpings, grief, an ill-advised marriage between Susannah and Alfred, guilt, bootlegging and a fight with a bear. "Thou shalt not covet thy brother's wife" is good advice for a reason, guys.
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The siblings:** **Richard (Anthony Hopkins), Geoffrey (John Castle) and John (Nigel Terry)
What puts them at odds?** **It's 1183, and scheming King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) plays his three sons off against each other to find a successor. Who will survive, and what will be left of them?
As Stardust proves, having Peter O'Toole as king means the kids are going to be end up jostling for the throne. This episode is more historically based, however. While the majority of the plot is taken from James Goldman's play, the destiny of the various princes is accurate: Richard becomes King but dies young; Geoffrey pre-deceases him, and John eventually takes the throne to Robin Hood-bothering effect. Lion In Winter draws together truly great actors, with Katharine Hepburn as formidable queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and even a young Timothy Dalton as the King of France, and won three Oscars for Hepburn, Goldman's adaptation and John Barry's score.
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The siblings:** **Soren (Jim Sturgess) and Kludd (Ryan Kwanten)
What puts them at odds?** **After the brothers are abducted by the "Pure Ones" at a young age, Kludd buys into their philosophy and trains as a soldier, while Soren continues to believe in the saintly Guardians of Ga'hoole.
Look, just because they're surrounded by a whole lot of silly nomenclature doesn't mean that their sibling rivalry is any less valid. Boiled down to its essence, this owl story sees two brothers choose rival ideologies, with devastating consequences for their family and in particular younger sister Eglantine, who ends up "moon-blinked". Hmm, maybe we can't get past the silly names after all. Anyway, she's reduced to a fugue state and it turns out that Kludd is responsible. Gasp! Will these two ever reconcile? Only if they make a sequel and the apparently-doomed Kludd manages to survive somehow...
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The siblings:** **Anna (Abigail Breslin) and Kate Fitzgerald (Sofia Vassilieva)
What puts them at odds?** **Anna was conceived and born to be a match for her sick older sister, in order to provide blood, tissue and organs as needed. But Anna finally sues for control of her own body and her own life.
This is a case where one sister is entirely justified in feeling aggrieved by the other: Anna's whole life has been about keeping her older sister alive. Bred and harvested for Kate's medical needs, it would be hard to blame Anna in her quest for medical emancipation from her parents. But there's a shock twist! (Look away now if you have neither seen the film nor read the book and/or care) Anna's actually acting at Kate's behest, with the elder sister determined not to fight to stay alive any longer, especially at the cost of her younger sister's kidney. So in the end this is less about sibling rivalry as mother vs. daughters conflict. Still, we're putting it in here because it's a rare case where one sister is actively conceived for the other's benefit, which has got to cause some issues.
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The siblings:** **Callie and Janna Chalmers (both Charisma Carpenter)
What puts them at odds?** **Years after their father's tragic, suspicious death, Janna is a successful businesswoman, while twin sis Callie is a lying, criminal tramp. Bet you can't guess what happens.
We couldn't resist including this one just for the title. It's a TV movie for the Lifetime channel that appears to have been shot on a budget to which a shoestring would offer to lend money. One sister is rich and successful, but tortured with guilt after she accidentally caused her father's death (or did she?!); the other is a trashy criminal. Can you guess where this is going? Evil twin Callie causes a crash that leaves Janna in a coma, and then pretends that she's Janna so she can take over her affluent life. You can probably guess the resulting twists, which include amnesia and murder by, er, giant freezer. Firmly in the so-bad-it's-fun category, let's just say no-one is winning awards for this and leave it at that.
Which sibling is your favourite?
The siblings:** **Joan Fontaine and, er Olivia de Havilland.
What puts them at odds?** **How much time have you got?
This is not an on-screen feud, although both are famous actresses. Instead, real-life star-sisters Fontaine and de Havilland have a near-constant conflict that seemed to stem from childhood. Olivia was unhappy that the pitter-patter of tiny feet meant the arrival of a younger sister, and a soon-mutual antipathy shaped years of bitter spats. The sisters vied for roles and awards, and demanded that their friends in Golden Age Hollywood also take sides. They even fought over their mother's funeral. Though at times both have claimed that others invented or exaggerated some of their clashes for the sake of PR, the fact remains that they live on different continents and have barely spoken since 1975, even refusing to attend events if there's a chance the other might show up. Now that's a fight.
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The brothers and sisters who just can't seem to get alongWith Thor: The Dark World approaching its release and the warring siblings Thor and Loki adorning this month's Empire cover, it seemed like a good time to take a look at other sibling rivalries in cinema history. These family feuds run the gamut from murderous to mawkish, in everything from broad comedy to (of course) Shakespearean drama. Read on to see if you can spot your family-alikes in this selection, and choose the sibling you're inclined to side with...
- What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? 19. Scanners 37. A History Of Violence 2. The Godfather II 20. 27 Dresses 38. Hannah And Her Sisters 3. Adaptation 21. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers 39. The Man In The Iron Mask 4. Cruel Intentions 22. Alice In Wonderland 40. Hamlet 5. The Lion King 23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 41. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 6. In Her Shoes 24. Rachel Getting Married 42. A Stolen Life / Dead Ringer 7. Step Brothers 25. Stardust 43. Ran 8. The Addams Family 26. Brothers 44. 10 Things I Hate About You 9. The King's Speech 27. A League Of Their Own 45. The Prince Of Egypt 10. Anchorman 28. The Fighter 46. Ordinary People 11. The Other Boleyn Girl 29. Ginger Snaps 47. Legends Of The Fall 12. Duel In The Sun 30. Sixteen Candles 48. The Lion In Winter 13. Weird Science 31. The Royal Tenenbaums 49. Legend Of The Guardians 14. Margot At The Wedding 32. Stuck On You 50. My Sister's Keeper 15. America's Sweethearts 33. W. 51. Dishonourable Mention 16. Warrior 34. Prince Of Persia 52. Real-Life Bonus 17. Ever After: A Cinderella Story 35. East Of Eden 18. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 36. Home Alone EMPIRE'S THOR: THE DARK WORLD ISSUE! OUT NOW!
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Tom Barrabi is a writer and editor based in New York. Since graduating from Fairfield University in 2011, he has written for GuySpeed, Men's Fitness, and Handlebar Magazine. Follow him on Twitter.
Here are some of the better games and moments you missed while sleeping off all of those turkey legs.
What do you get when you combine highly competitive sports figures and post-game press conferences? Pure viewing magic.
For most people, it's pretty obvious when a 911 call is necessary. Say, for example, that you just witnessed a bank robbery and wanted to let the cops know the deal---no one is going to question that decision...
This weekend, finally, the real refs will be back on the sidelines, saving us from any further on-field debacles like the ending to last Monday Night's Packers-Seahawks game. For all the phantom pass-interference calls and overlong instant-replay reviews, certain moments are sure to stick out when, in future years, we look back on the first three weeks of the 2012 season and wonder just what the world happened.
Here are eight dubious ways for us all to remember the stand-ins responsible for imprinting the phrase "simultaneous catch" onto every football fan's brain:
By now, even non-football fans have heard about the officiating debacle in Monday Night's showdown between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks. Facing a 12-7 deficit with just seconds left to play, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson rolled out of the pocket and threw a desperation heave into the end zone, resulting in a game-clinching interception for the Packers.
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Hot German Potato Salad
Recipe by Alan in SW Florida
Hot salad dressing made with vinegar and bacon drippings is a common feature in German-American cooking.
Top Review by mcswainc_12399278
OMG!!!! this recipe reminds me of my childhood. My Aunt made a recipe very close to this one. I made this the other night and my husband and I loved it. The only change I made was the flour. I have celiac so I used corn starch instead. (2 tbsp).
If you love "hot german potato salad" I recommend you trying this one.
Thanks Alan for a great recipe!!!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 12 medium red potatoes (about 2 pounds)
- 1⁄4 lb bacon (4 to 6 slices)
- 1 medium red onion, chopped (about 1 1/4 cups)
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons sugar
- 3⁄4 teaspoon dry mustard
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon celery seed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
- 3⁄4 cup water
- 2⁄3 cup cider vinegar
- 3 hard-cooked eggs, coarsely chopped
- 1 small green bell pepper, chopped (about 3/4 cup)
- 2 stalks celery, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Directions See How It's Made
- In a large saucepan of simmering salted water, cook the potatoes until tender, 30 to 35 minutes. Drain and set aside.
- Meanwhile, in a large nonreactive skillet, cook the bacon over medium heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Reserving the fat, drain the bacon and set aside.
- In the bacon fat, saute the onion over medium heat until softened but not browned, about 10 minutes. Stir in the flour, sugar, dry mustard, salt, celery seed, and black pepper. Reduce the heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture has slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
- Remove the skillet from the heat and stir in the water and vinegar. Bring the dressing to a boil, stirring constantly, and cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat.
- Add the reserved crumbled bacon to the hot dressing. Slice the unpeeled potatoes into the dressing and stir gently to coat them. Return the skillet to medium heat and cook, stirring gently, until the dressing is hot and bubbly, about 1 minute.
- Transfer the hot potatoes to a large serving bowl. Stir in the eggs, green pepper, celery, and parsley. Serve salad warm.


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About: Mansfield & Ashfield / Community nursing, Mansfield Mansfield & Ashfield Community nursing, Mansfield
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To the team
With grateful thanks to all of you in vantage Community Nursing team for the wonderful care you have given me. You deserve a medal (and a pay rise).
Best wishes
Response from Zoe Read, Integrated Care Team Leader ( Mansfield Community Nursing), Health Partnerships, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust about a year and a half ago
Thank-you for providing feedback reagrding the Vantage Team and the care they provided to you. I will ensure they are aware of your kind comments.
I hope you continue to make good progress
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YOUR pet could get its 15 minutes of fame with a new section in The Gazette.
The Star Pet feature will give readers the chance to get their pooch published or put the limelight on their lizard.
Email in photographs of your animal and tell us why you love it so much to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Entries must include the name and ages of the pet and its owner, and where they live.


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Computer Vision (1) - Investigating Using the Raspberry Pi Camera Module with FPGA Vision Systems, Part 1
The Raspberry Pi camera module board (Rev 1.3) has been identified by the hobbyist embedded community as an inexpensive camera that would be ideal for computer vision projects. However, the camera may not be usable outside of the Raspberry Pi community, due to the closed source nature of its interface's timing and data characteristics.
This means that to understand how it works, in order to use it in our hobbyist computer vision projects, we may need to hook it up to one of our FPGA boards and perform some "creative" engineering. This should provide some insight into how it operates, which should be right up our alley with us being FPGA "experts" and all. Hence, in this blog post we investigate what would be required to use the Raspberry Pi camera module with our FPGA development kits and projects.


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Map of Bruny Island
Interactive Map of Bruny Island and the d'Entrecasteaux Channel
My map of Bruny Island will show you how to get there from Hobart.
Bruny Island is long and thin, running north to south down the coast of the area south of Hobart and forming the d'Entrecasteaux Channel between itself and the Tasmanian Mainland. It can be reached by car ferry.
Things to Look for | Map of Bruny Island
An Island near and Island | Map of Bruny Island
Bruny Island provides a sheltered waterway between itself and the Mainland of Tasmania. Known to locals as "the Channel" area, it was named after its discoverer, Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux (Pron. Dont-re-cast-o).
The island was named Bruny, the channel, the d'Entrecasteaux.channel. When driving from Hobart, take the A5 Southern Outlet road to Kingston, and then the B64 south to Kettering.
At Kettering, turn left to the Marina. This road finishes at the ferry terminal. It takes about an hour to drive to Kettering. > Hotels in Bruny Island
Day Drive to Bruny Island from Hobart | Map of Bruny Island
There are some great walks, and some excellent scenery on Bruny Island. I give full directions for a day drive from Hobart on the site.
Full Day Drive Directions: > Bruny Island Day Drive
Adventure Bay | Map of Bruny Island
When you get off the Ferry, take the B66 Bruny Island Main Road south and cross the narrow neck of land dividing the northern and southern sections of the Island.
Make sure to take one of the walks up the sand dune lookouts on the Neck.
These are most unusual and provide a great view of the beach. Watch for the sign to the turn out parking.
Turn left onto Adventure Bay Road to visit the place where Captain William Bligh (yes, of Mutiny on the Bounty fame) called in in 1788.
At the time he was in command of The Bounty – before the famous mutiny. The Bligh Museum at Adventure Bay is worth a look through.
> Hotels in Bruny Island
Day Tour From Hobart | Map of Bruny Island
If you are not driving yourself, you can see most of Bruny Island in this excellent day tour. They will pick you up at the hotel, and drop you back after a day of sightseeing and adventure. This Day Tour includes the Adventure Cruise around some amazing coastal scenery.
More Information and Bookings: > Full-Day Bruny Island Tour from Hobart
Hotels in Bruny Island | Map of Bruny Island
If you really want to lose yourself book a stay on Bruny Itself. There is no through traffic on Bruny Island – if you miss the last ferry you are there for the night.
Compare Prices on Hotels in Bruny Island: > Hotels in Bruny Island
Other Tasmania Maps
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> Map of Battery Point | >,Map of Richmond | > Map of Huon Valley
> Map of Derwent Valley | > Map of Stanley | > Map of Launceston
> Map of Tamar Valley | > Map of Southwest Wilderness
> Map of Cradle Mountain | > Map of Freycinet | > Map of Bruny Island
Find Tours and Activities: > Tasmania Tours & Activities
More Information on Adventure Bay: > Adventure Bay, Tasmania – Wikipedia


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Ayala walks to Platbos
Help Ayala neutralise her Carbon footprint by gifting a tree to Platbos at the reforesting festival, May 2015. Ayala Katz, Peace Ambassador and Environmental Activist from Cape Town will be leaving from Krige Station, which is near her family farm in Caledon on the 11th May and will be walking to Platbos, Africa's Southernmost Indigenous Forest to the reforesting festival on the 15th May.
Walking has been a passion of hers for years and finally Ayala has found a way to make every footsteps count. Her dream is to neutralise her Carbon footprint by planting as many trees as she can during her life time. She has walked on many continents of the world Himalayas Nepal, Northwest India, Spain, France, Bahrain, Oman to name a few. Last year while walking 650km from Grahamstown to Knysna, with her dream to create a "New generation of Walking Culture, " called, "Walking Into Wholeness", she and a group of visionaries are planning to walk across Africa with a project called the PeaceAfricaWalk, Cape Town to Jerusalem 2016 in March next year.
She got this epiphany while walking with a friend through the Tankwa Karoo a few weeks ago, as part of Saving the Karoo Awareness campaign that she can't change the world, but she can make a difference with her walking. Inspiring people along the way to be more conscious of their carbon footprint on the planet by asking everyone she knows, friends and global citizens of the world to gift a tree to Platbos and help her reach her dream. It's really simple, please go on this site http://www.platbos.co.za/plant_a_tree.html or contact Platbos and buy a tree.
Please would you put YOUR name on the tree and PeaceAfricaWalk and help Ayala to make the Planet a better place for everyone by making every step count! If you wish you know who Ayala is or what she is doing, please go on to her website http://ayala-katz.wix.com/walkingintowholeness.


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This is by no means a comprehensive list of arthropod species in the American Southwest. It is simply a gallery of some of the insects and related invertebrate species in this beautiful region. Most photos were initially taken in El Paso County, Texas when the site was called "El Paso Bugs". The new name ("Southwest Bugs") allows us to include species from nearby states; primarily New Mexico and Arizona. Our intention is to document the presence of arthropod species in this region and give the general public an increased awareness or appreciation of some of the fascinating arthropods with which we share this land. Enjoy!
Note: In this thumbnail version, the pictures are arranged by taxonomic groups and listed by the scientific names of the organisms. In the list version, the links to the pictures are named in the following sequence: Order-Family-Genus-Species-Common name. We have made every effort to provide accurate species identification and have received the help of many entomologists curating this image collection. However, we do not discard the possibility of misidentifications. Special gratitude to the Editors and volunteers of http://bugguide.net/ for their kind assistance. No additional information on biology, economic importance, and management is provided because the organism name will allow the reader to access vast amount of data readily available online and from other reference material. We accept contributions of high-quality Southwest insect photos. Of course, proper credit will be given. Email: email@example.com
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Thursday, November 27, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Bison Bones how lucky are you! Happy Thanksgiving! :)ReplyDelete
Wow, bison bones beat turkey bones any day! Lucky you Ryker, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and Sandy and your dad!ReplyDelete
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I am laughing so hard at "Dem bones, Dem bones, Dem Bison Bones!" I think that Bison bone looks delicious, it sure does look like you had a wonderful thanksgiving! I'm thankful for having you as my furiend Ryker and for seeing all of you beautiful adventures in your Alaskan home! Love and licks from your furiend Frank xxxxx
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Those bones are BIG! Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
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There is not a dog on this entire planet that wouldn't be thankful for those bones--Wow, you really are a lucky boy!!ReplyDelete
I hope you're all doing well, and enjoying a good post Thanksgiving, Black Friday weekend!!
I am thankful for fwends. :)ReplyDelete
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3D Quilt Piece Using Inkscape
Just like a regular quilt, only different.
As we continue to learn about 3D Printing at DHF, we have moved on to our next project, which is all about creating a Quilt Piece in Tinkercad for our Digital Harbor Foundation 3D Quilt!
To make my quilt piece, I started with a simple template:
Once I had the Template, I needed to think of an original concept for what I would do with it. Unlike the Keychain project, I had a lot more freedom to be creative. I decided I wanted to bring my Space Octopus into 3D, so I started looking into how to do that. Tinkercad is a powerful tool, but on its own, it offers a limited set of basic 3D shapes to work with. I wanted to make a 3D space Octopus, so I needed a custom shape. Luckily, Tinkercad can use the SVG files from Inkscape! I could just use my space octopus!
The trouble is that while Tinkercad allows SVG shapes to come in from Inkscape, it does not accept more complex groups of shapes. My Space Octopus had too many parts! The solution was to break it down into individual SVG images for each part I wanted to bring in. I decided that I could make the eyeballs using Sphere shapes in Tinkercad, so all I needed was the shape of the body, and the background tentacles.
When I brought each shape in, they were much larger than the work area in Tinkercad, and I was prompted to set an Extrude Height, which adds thickness to the cut-out shapes. Once I brought both of them into Tinkercad, I scaled them down to fit on the Quilt Piece template:
Once the completed design was created, I downloaded it from Tinkercad and sent it to the 3D Printer at DHF. The finished piece looks good and is now a part of the quilt!