Archives – 2006 – April – 18  

Use Other Review Cliches Please
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In nearly every review of the Dardennes typically fantastic movie L’Enfant there has been a bit of gleeful tongue in cheek theorising about who the titular child really is. Whilst the plot, about two teenagers having a baby clearly has a baby i[…]

Bean History
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Open2 sheds some light: in response to Pete’s musings, I immediately thought that the beans/UK craze might be a first world war thing – tinned rations at the front, shared experience of hardship, a generation shaped ect ect.
But no &#8211[…]

“Looney Tunes Cup”
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Not an official World Cup licence holder? Would like to join in with the fun/jump on the footballing bandwagon to get added sales anyway? Why not have a football theme anyway – you don’t need to say the words World Cup.
And therefore we g[…]

My Mini-Me
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Football Manager 2006 comes equipped with a very large and memory-consuming data editor. Ostensibly this is so you can tweak stats and update your teams with new transfers, managerial changes etc. in advance of the next upgrade. You can also add enti[…]

Food History Month
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Yes, yes Food Science Day – a rip-roaring success last year and to be repeated this summer. But whilst the science helps us understand how food works, sometimes one needs an understanding of the cultural history of food to understand some of it[…]

Walk Away
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Things are getting tight down at the bottom of League Two (nee Division Three* nee Division Four). Having plummeted down there in the last few months, my team Barnet are bobbling just above the two team relegation zone. One win and one loss over East[…]

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Frank Miller Back On Track?
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All-Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder was DC Comics attempt at making a Batman comic that unites the best and most iconic talent doing stories which you did not need thirty years of continuity to understand. In Frank Miller they had the best selli[…]

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