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The FT Top 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA: No.15 Poltergeists
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— 19 Oct 2005 Tom Comment

Alix Campbell writes:
When I was younger I was very keen to read about the supernatural world, even when it scared the living dung out of me. I was particularly worried about things that had the most disturbing pictures in the bumper Usborne Book of […]

Worst Double Bill Eveh!
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— 19 Oct 2005 Pete Baran Comment

Whilst having quite disjunctive styles, aims and lead characters, Domino and Lord Of War are remarkably similar movies. And not just because both of them are pretty bad. Here is just a quick summary of their similarities.
Both are based around an int[…]

Will Oldham, Oldhat
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— 19 Oct 2005 Anthony Easton Comment

Every time I listen to Will Oldham these days I have a little less pleasure. I don’t know who said it first, but there was a long discussion of him as class tourism and mobility, and fake authentic, and how all of this was a very bad thing. Ho[…]

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