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With the movie reincarnation of International Rescue
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— 19 Jul 2004 Magnus Comment

With the movie reincarnation of International Rescue storming towards us with the beauty of Brains and the grace of Thunderbird 2, plenty have mentioned that a central innovation of the film – on top of better effects, a bit of character d[…]

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THE SQUARE TABLE 4 / BIG AND RICH – “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)”
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— 19 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

THE SQUARE TABLE 4 / BIG AND RICH – “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)”
Pop Factor: 784 Controversy Score: 256
You’ll love it first time if you’re going to love it at all, I reckon. The froth of messageboard talk raised my […]

The last U2 album was called All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
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— 19 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

The last U2 album was called All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
 
The new one will be called All That You Shouldn’t Leave Lying Around For Interweb Scallys To Steal. Let’s just hope no-one posts tracks up illegally&nbsp[…]

A bit on TMFD on The Miracle Of Bern
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— 19 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

A bit on TMFD on The Miracle Of Bern,  and why films seem to insiste on getting football wrong.Sometimes films should try and be more like television, is the conclusion. WHich does not necessarily mean remakes of The Flintstones.[…]

I saw The Miracle Of Bern on Saturday.
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— 19 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

I saw The Miracle Of Bern on Saturday. Yes I know it is a film and that is what Do You See? is for but it was about football so it fits here nicely. And note, I saw it at 3pm, traditional kick off time. Except we had the ads and trailers fi[…]

Kid Shirt
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— 19 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

Kid Shirt: I like this blog a lot.[…]

For all those who I was boring on Saturday night – more info on
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— 19 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

For all those who I was boring on Saturday night – more info on Carrie: The Musical. Initially produced in Stratford Up Upon Avon for a month before transfering to Broadway – for four days. One of the most notorious stage flops, I have sl[…]

The Horror Channel
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— 19 Jul 2004 Mike Comment

The Horror Channel recently stole into the Sky schedules in the dead of night. Programming output is based on a mixture of Hammer Horror, b-movie trash and little known classics such as Hard Rock Zombies – When a rock band are brutally murdered[…]

FT Top 100 Films 60: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
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— 19 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

FT Top 100 Films
60: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
 
Martin Skidmore says:

A film that is 85 years old is pretty hard to watch the way it would have been viewed at the time. Silent of course, and the acting, particularly Conrad Veidt’s hypn[…]

Heat and humidity brings on free love fest.
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— 19 Jul 2004 Lou Dann Comment

Heat and humidity brings on free love fest.
Anyone else get hit in the face by a winged ant on his way back from an orgy?
West Hampstead saw record numbers of flying ants over the weekend undergoing their brief flying sex-a-thon mating season.  […]

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