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Month: April 2013

Scottish Borders photo of the day: watch out for barbarians

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
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Me astride Hadrian’s Wall, the Romans’ attempt to contain Scotland…

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inoffensive Frankenkid; you’ve seen worse (The Odd Life of Timothy Green review)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
2 comments

The magic is as modest as can be, and its aim is a bit off…

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Doctor Who thing: wanna be Executive Producer?

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
2 comments

The position is open since Caroline Skinner left…

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here, have a cinemagasm (The Great Gatsby trailer)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
3 comments

But I wonder what Fitzgerald would make of it. I bet he’d love it.

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Scottish Borders photo of the day: welcome!

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
4 comments

The snow and the rocks are features, not bugs.

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you can’t stop the music… *ever* (A Late Quartet review)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
1 comment

All its faults are forgiven thanks to our sheer joy in getting to watch Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, and Philip Seymour Hoffman rattle around one another…

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the best tribute I can offer Roger Ebert…

Thu, Apr 04, 2013
6 comments

…is a rerun of my What Film Critics Do meme thingy.

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Stephenie Meyer has found a whole new way for teen girls to be conflicted about sex (The Host review)

Thu, Apr 04, 2013
26 comments

Did Neo come to see that the Agents had the right way of things? Did Luke eventually realize that the Empire was a stabilizing force in the galaxy? But poor Melanie is suffering from the ultimate case of Stockholm Syndrome.

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Thu, Apr 04, 2013
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how to succeed as a writer

Thu, Apr 04, 2013
5 comments

1) Be a spoiled-rotten child of privilege. 2) Live selfishly and dangerously. 3) Get a book deal worth $500K. Works every time.

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