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The African Queen, National Film Theatre, Sunday Nov. 26
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— 27 Nov 2006 Elisha Sessions Comment

Green screen effects and obvious quarter-size boat model outfitted with Bogie and Hepburn dolls going through what was probably a small creek somewhere were laffable but the movie generates such goodwill that it almost felt right that Huston would[…]

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Turner Prize Idiots!
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— 27 Nov 2006 Pete Baran 2 comments

Annual trip to the Turner Prize (and hence Annual Trip to the Morpeth Arms too) threw up the usual half hearted, interesting and dull experiences. Whilst the field is pretty unexciting this year, there were at least two I quite liked, whilst themselv[…]

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