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- Film Reviews - Giving personal opinions

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- Teenage novelist

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- Florence Foster Jenkins

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- Harold Pinter

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- Serenity

Serenity

This week, language from the world of film, and an interview with the director of cult TV series 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', Joss Whedon, about his new movie, 'Serenity'. So climb into your space ship and hang on to your Stetson, because this is a 'science-fiction western'! 'Serenity' is set 500 years in the future and has been called 'a blockbuster' by critics.

Try our quiz below to practise some of the language used in the programme.

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Words and expressions from the programme


gritty-ness
showing difficult or unpleasant situations as they really are

disparate
different

larger than life
exaggerated, funny

to cringe
to feel embarrassed by something because it seems silly

hokey
false, dishonest

frontier
an area where people have never lived before and that not much is known about

physicality
to do with real objects you can touch, see or feel

a Stetson
a large hat worn by cowboys

the internet age
the period of history we are living in now

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