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How to make a nu-Far Eastern Horror movie
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How to make a nu-Far Eastern Horror movie (based on Phone, and all the other Tartan Asia Extreme movies that keep popping up).
a) Lots of spooky black hair (cf Ring/Phone)
b) Scary evil kid (cf Phone, Ju-on, Ring)
c) Ghosts whose reason for killing p[…]

FT Top 100 Films 37: INTERSTELLA 5555: THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM
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FT Top 100 Films
37: INTERSTELLA 5555: THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM
SteveM says:
It’s the most ambitious pop cartoon since ‘Yellow Submarine’. But I5555’s appeal may have been dented by a two-and-a-half-year release gap[…]

Organised Fun
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Organised Fun: my invisibility on here today is down to having to work. Hardly news, but the work in question is organising a charity event tonight at my company, a ‘pub olympics’ involving various games and a quiz, which I’m settin[…]

StatsWatch
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Seen on TV this weekend – an advert for the National Lottery which claims your chances of winning increase 100% if you buy a ticket.
Arrrgggghhhh….[…]

News feed: Musicians get instruments stolen
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News feed: Musicians get instruments stolen
Stolen, but note, not destroyed. They all have the “Distinctive” Scottish Chamber Orchestra sticker on the side, if you do stumble across a cello and apicolo in a ditch. Distinctive like a turd,[…]

Spiderman Reviews Crayons
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Spiderman Reviews Crayons: like the elephant art, this could have been made for the Wedge.[…]

B-Movies were great weren’t they?
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B-Movies were great weren’t they? Received wisdom suggests that because B-Movies were cheap, throwaway and not studio priorities, this allowed the directors paradoxically more power over their content. B-movies, the darlings of the Cahiers De C[…]

COMPLIMENTARO!!!
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COMPLIMENTARO!!! Travel is about the people, the places, the sites ? but I my favourite bit is ver nosh. Therefore when I think about the best meal I have ever eaten, I think about a place on my travels. The Hotel Ranuka in Columbo did the finest Sr[…]

The best way to learn about another culture is to try and sell its people useless shit over the telephone
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The best way to learn about another culture is to try and sell its people useless shit over the telephone. Or at least this is the premise behind the Working Holiday visa. The visa, which is probably unknown to most Americans, allows persons aged 18 […]

elephant art
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elephant art[…]

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