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Your Belgian Film Update
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— 5 Feb 2009 Pete Baran 2 comments

Sometime it is difficult to dam the flood of Belgian films filling up our multiplexes. Why in the last month I have seen two which, merely due to accident of country of origin, I shall compare despite them really having very little to do with each ot[…]

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Hauntography: The Ghost Stories Of M R James
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— 5 Feb 2009 Tom 9 comments

Like all new Freaky Trigger series, the idea for this one came in the pub. I had been re-reading MR James’ Collected Ghost Stories and started talking about them with Mark and Rick: within moments I thought, “let’s blog it”. H[…]

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