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My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 1: The Good Night
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— 23 Jan 2009 Pete Baran 3 comments

I didn’t walk out of the The Good Night because I fell asleep. HA HA – what an irony when the film itself is about sleeping! I did not fall asleep for very long, but I wish I had. You have probably already detected a theme in this list of[…]

Thrill-Power Revisited
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— 23 Jan 2009 Tom 6 comments

Comics Should Be Good links to my old Pitchfork essay on THRILL-POWER, a term I use a lot without ever having managed to give a good summary of what I mean by it. (“Earthlet, if you have to ask, you’ll never know”)
This awesome comm[…]

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My 10 Worst Films Of 2008: 1.5 (Doesn’t count cos I saw it on DVD)
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— 23 Jan 2009 Pete Baran 5 comments

Cassandra’s Dream
If I had seen Cassandra’s Dream in the cinema I would have walked out. As it was I got half an hour in on the DVD and then flung across the room in disgust. (And then cleaned it and hoped no-one at LoveFilm would notice)[…]

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