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Not Gonna Watch Us…
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aka t.A.T.u II: What ever happened to t.A.T.u: The Movie?
A few years ago, I blogged about the t.A.T.u Anime movie in production in Japan. t.A.T.u: PARAGATE apparently was to show our plucky lipstick (not) lesbians gamely saving the world from some s[…]

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Why The Country NEEDS St Trinians
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When a tabloid journalist wants to find out the dirt about a celebrity what do they do? Well these days they probably talk to their publicist and between them they concoct a story between them which gets the sleb some column inches and the journo the[…]

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Cuts Like A – er – Razor (UPDATE: With Picture Proving Point)
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I’ve seen Battlestar Galactica: Razor twice now, and I finally feel free to say that which I was scared of after the first viewing. Yes, it is an entertaining two hour film, filling in details which probably did not need to be filled in, but tellin[…]

Night On Mare Street
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If there is one thing that CAMRA seems to have accidentally, but willingly, sponsored over the last thirty years – its the ever so clever witty beer name. Real Ale’s, often been brewed as special beers, are often named thematically and th[…]

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Post-Loll: Its Just Not Rollerball
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OK, from the FUTURESPORTS desk on last nights FT & The Lollards Of Pop we first take a look at Keirin which chief engineer Carsmile Steve cited as the closest we get to Rollerball in actual sport. OK, there is a scooter involved SOMETIMES, but as[…]

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Telling Tales
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There is a moment when critics unleash their wrath on a particular film which is akin to bear baiting. Except often the film is not the cinematic equivalent of a bear, and the lashing is completely justified. Two films have been savaged by critics th[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 48
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GLEN CAMPBELL – Rhinestone Cowboy
I have a firm belief that this is the second song I ever heard.
Read all about my childhood association with Glen here. Instead here I want to talk about how a song can subtly infiltrate different thoughts and […]

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Chocolate Filled Fruit : Om Nom Nom Ugh
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Quick eyeball – saw in my own shop Fruit Tella Choc Filled. Ugh I thought. Who wants the tasty fruit flavoured chew with a completely unwarranted burst of what is almost certainly some sort of chocolate flavoured glucose syrup centre? No-one, t[…]

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The Sponge Fear Of Fearne Cotton
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Its true you know, Fearne Cotton is afraid of sponges.
But that is nothing compared to the complexity of the Cluedo characters fictional history. Material gathered for last nights Lollards, but unused, uncovered the following salient facts: which may[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 2, Week 2 (Pre-Record information)
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Hello everyone! Its Wednesday, its 7pm so harken up to the sweet sounds of Saltarello drifting across your Resonance airwaves. EXCEPT YOU WON’T! Because today is NO MUSIC DAY as decreed by Bulldog Drummond and his trusty service revolver, and t[…]

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