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The Day After Tomorrow
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The Day After Tomorrow
Brrrrr! Wrap up warm!
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Why are cinematic portrayals of librarians always so cliched? – Oh the precious books! Don’t burn the precious books! philistines! – I was thinking that I’d burn the books wit[…]

well i say it’s ART so bite me
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well i say it’s ART so bite me
newscaster jon snow on c4 news just now: “to pursue the metaphor, is there not a danger that you’re crying wolf before the stable door is bolted?”[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: Part 2
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The Post-TV Diaries: Part 2
Now that I don’t have one, I see television EVERYWHERE. I feel like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. My days are full of annoying glimpses of Eastenders in the launderette, Hell’s Kitchen at my grandmother&#821[…]

Brian Cox is Swiss Toni is Agamemnon
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Brian Cox is Swiss Toni is Agamemnon. From the near opening moment of Troy when this fact is revealed you know the whole affair will be ludicrous. Appreciated as a film version of a orally told tale makes things a lot easier. After all, Homer probabl[…]

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FT Top 100 Films 90. Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1997 )
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[Rescued Notes, Unaltered, from a Decommissioned Contemporary Review (the editor changed his mind and gave it to K!m Newm4n, a lovely chap labouring under the burden of having seen EVERY HORROR and SCI-FI MOVIE EVAH MADE!!)]
If Independence Day was[…]

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK
The sports question is often a groaner for those of us who are rubbish at sport. This next question was particularly annoying last night because even when you work out what the question refers to, you still need addition[…]

OMG WTF!!!
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OMG WTF!!!: Worthy but flawed ‘guide to online lingo’ from US Missing Kids centre (it’s a .pdf file). The idea is for parents to be able to ‘crack the code’ of their kids’ logged online chats and so find out if the[…]

No acrobatic sex please
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No acrobatic sex please, we’re CROATIAN![…]

I’M STUCK IN THE WALL! HELP! I’M STUCK IN THE WALL!
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I’M STUCK IN THE WALL! HELP! I’M STUCK IN THE WALL! Am I talking about the episode of Angel where Cordy moves into an apartment haunted by the ghost of a boy who was bricked up inside a wall by his mother for snogging the wrong girl? Am I[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: Part 1
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The Post-TV Diaries: Part 1
Well, it’s been about two months now. Taking the fact of our aerial breaking as a sign, we decided to give up television. And I can now be found waxing lyrical to anyone who will listen about the benefits of a TV-fre[…]

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