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My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 5: Vantage Point
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— 19 Jan 2009 Pete Baran 6 comments

Imagine an episode of 24 where you see the same thing happening over and over again from a different viewpoint. Each time you see a new view, you get an extra piece of information, fleshing out the story, telling you what really happened. A bit like […]

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Blind swordsmen are like football teams with ten men
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— 19 Jan 2009 Pete Baran 3 comments

Hard to beat. Love and Honour the sadly generically titled final film in Yôji Yamada’s samurai trilogy is a sedate, old fashioned tale which features a blind swordsman. The ICA for some reason had to show it on DVD, whose reduced resolution ma[…]

THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No. 34: Shanice – I Love Your Smile
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— 19 Jan 2009 cis 8 comments

It’s fourteen degrees centigrade in my room, much colder out, and at this point in January summer feels like a friend you’ve lost touch with and will never see again, but sometimes semi-recognise in the faces of strangers in the street; a[…]

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