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Plots – Now Thicker Than Ever!
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— 27 Oct 2006 Tom 4 comments

My most eagerly-awaited comic of the year came out this week: Grant Morrison and JH Williams’ Seven Soldiers #1. The ‘awaited’ bit had come to carry a bit more stress than the ‘eager’: the comic had been delayed for seve[…]

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let them eat fah-diddley qake qake
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— 27 Oct 2006 mark sinker 8 comments

ok the idea of a vivienne westwoodesque biopic folly abt MARIE ANTIONETTE is so great that — by the time i realised this was what it wz gnna be (yes i waste a lot of energy avoiding moviepromo), i wz psyched for total disappointment
AND DIDN&#[…]

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Who’s The Rat?
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— 27 Oct 2006 Pete Baran 2 comments

One of the DEPARTURES of the film THE DEPARTED from its source material – Hong Kong thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS – is a DEPARTURE from the TIMELINE* of the original. Not only does the undercover cop character changes his whole identity in IN[…]

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