Archive for August, 2010

Just when you think you know what a ‘budget slasher’ is

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 30th August 2010.

A friend of mine has recently structured a US$100 million (Dh367.2m) film fund to finance slasher/horror movies. The fund is forecasting solid returns for this genre, which is always in demand.  I put it to him that there were many parallels between bad managers and the villains that stalk the slasher genre. Both are fundamentally concerned with cutting things up. Read more »

The long suffering of football fans and homebuyers

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 26th August 2010.

The modern game of football, especially in the Premier League, is riddled with change. But we football fans don’t particularly like change. Read more »

Google and Verizon seem to see no net worth in equality

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 16th August 2010.

The seventh commandment of Animalism, the laws put in place by the animals after they’d overthrown the humans and taken control in George Orwell’s political satire Animal Farm, was: “All animals are equal.” But once the pigs became corrupted with power and greed they added “… but some animals are more equal than others”. Read more »

What comes of the inevitable surveys and soundings?

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 9th August 2010.

I can guarantee you this. Whether you like it or not, you’ve done it. You’ve completed one. Read more »

Personal privacy should be more highly prized

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 2nd August 2010.

The British game show host Bruce Forsyth was known for asking his audience on Play Your Cards Right, “What do points make?”, to which they would shout back in unison, “Prizes!” Read more »