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The Seven Swords of Why?
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— 2 Mar 2006 Pete Baran 1 comment

It is great to see a new Tsui Hark film at the cinema. Seven Swords is nowhere near Hark at his best, but since I have only ever seen him on a TV, I relished seeing this in a cinema. Bigger budgets, digital effects and relentless editing though remov[…]

A restau-rant
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— 2 Mar 2006 Archel Comment

Every so often my local paper runs a ‘dine for £10’ collect the tokens style offer in association with selected restaurants. Having for once actually bothered to a) buy the paper and b) cut out three tokens, I went to Seven Dials in Brig[…]

Pumpkin Publog lyric watch
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— 2 Mar 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Not, as it may seem at first, an attempt to rip off Tanya Headon’s excellent if rarely seen feature (possibly because she is apparently stuck in China). Rather a sad and shocking tale of central London pubs. On last nights evidence, it appears […]

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