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Cheer Up Matt!
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— 9 Feb 2004 Tom Comment

Cheer Up Matt!: my off-the-cuff definition wasn’t meant to exclude anybody from anything, it was just a marketing thing really. I might as well have said that everything with a distribution deal creates an ‘imagined community’ (and […]

Thirty years ago the most commonly found sort of restaurant here in Northeastern Mississippi was the catfish and steak house
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— 9 Feb 2004 William Comment

Thirty years ago the most commonly found sort of restaurant here in Northeastern Mississippi was the catfish and steak house. A half-dozen in every county, all pretty much identical right down to the menu: burgers and fried shrimp for the kids, four […]

There is only one question we need to ask about School Of Rock
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— 9 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

Is it also a school of Rockism? There was always going to be that difficult moment in the film where Jack Black introduces the kids to his pride and joy, RAWK MUSIC. What music do the kids like already? Difficult moment.
Christina Aguleira? Bad momen[…]

The Grifters – Jim Thompson
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— 9 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

The Grifters – Jim Thompson
Thompson understands tragedy. He understands that sometimes entertainment should hurt, should annoy. That truth, for a cynical world, lies in cruelty rather than the easy fix of happy ever after. Why is happy ever af[…]

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