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Month: October 2010

‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Season Six teasers

Thu, Oct 07, 2010
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We all know what a mean ol’ tease Steven Moffat is, so it’s entirely possible that at least some of these hints — not spoilers — from the upcoming Brilliant Book of Doctor Who are deliberately misleading, and others are outright bullshit. But we’ll still have fun discussing them anyway.

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trailer break: ‘I Spit on Your Grave’

Thu, Oct 07, 2010
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I’ve seen this. I haven’t seen the original, so I don’t know how it compares… but this is a very interesting movie in a lot of ways I fear the intended audience will never appreciate.

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ugly weekend at the U.K. box office…

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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…as no film earns more than £1 million at the box office. This has apparently not happened in two years, since back in October 2008.

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Never Let Me Go movie review: ordinary people

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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I’ve come to realize recently that there’s something more chilling, more eerie than a fictional dystopian world: a fictional dystopian world in which no one understands they’re living in a dystopia.

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a sad story about the fannish life

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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It’s almost an understatement to call this tragic, but there doesn’t seem to be another word that covers the strange life and stranger death of science fiction fan, writer, and Internet personality F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre.

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a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Chinese Wall”

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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There really is no middle ground for Don when it comes to women, is there? Either they’re invisible to him, functional furniture — like poor Miss Blankenship was — or he’s on top of them because they smiled sweetly at him. Sheesh.

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watch it: newly uncovered film footage of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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This is totally mesmerizing; the city looks like Hiroshima after the atom bomb… except for the fact that all the utility poles and trees are still standing.

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: hilarious icons for all your avatar needs

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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Fan artist Red Scharlach has created an impressive collection of Doctor Who-themed icons… hundreds of them, from new Who and the classic series. Even the Peter Cushing movies. Even Rowan Atkinson’s ‘Curse of Fatal Death’ Doctor!

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trailer break: ‘Burke and Hare’

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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I was sorta excited about this, but now we see why the trailer was held till just mere weeks before its U.K. release: It looks really, really stupid.

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question of the day: What is the longstanding appeal of British costume dramas, like the new ‘Downton Abbey’?

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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For me, it’s the bottling up of emotion required by the (stereotypical) British stiff upper lip, until it just won’t stay bottled up anymore, which results in exquisitely drawn out encounters full of subtext and seething with feeling, and eventually explosive outbursts. You?

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