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Who listens to the Watchmen?
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— 22 Jan 2009 Tom 6 comments

From Douglas Wolk’s Twitter account I snatch the link to the Watchmen soundtrack. Fans of the comic will be disappointed – or perhaps pleased – to note that only a handful of Alan Moore’s chapter-leading musical sources make i[…]

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My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 2: Silent Light
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— 22 Jan 2009 Pete Baran 8 comments

I think that my response to putting this at number two will be hordes (two) people telling me how much I don’t get it. Silent Light, by Mexican director (I refuse to call him an auteur) Carlos Reygadas, was critically gushed over this time last[…]

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The Strange Death of the UK Charts
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— 22 Jan 2009 Tom 64 comments

This is a graph – done by anatol_merklich off the Poptimists LiveJournal community, so massive thanks to him – showing the number of new entries in the UK singles chart for each year from 1952 to the present.
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