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Month: October 2013

Doctor Who thing: when boys cosplay Time Lords

Wed, Oct 23, 2013
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Turns out that just like how girls like to pretend to be a Time Lord, sometimes boys like to dress up as the Doctor(s), too.

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The Book Thief trailer: a movie about a little girl!

Wed, Oct 23, 2013
3 comments

And she’s doing heroic things! So awesome.

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London photo of the day: Anglo-American confectionary relations…

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
2 comments

…are apparently good at the moment.

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Trap Street review (London Film Festival)

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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It’s never intense enough for the paranoid thriller it wants to be, but it has some chilling things to say about the dangers of the not-quite all-seeing eye of a total-surveillance society.

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Sx_Tape review (London Film Festival) (world premiere)

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
2 comments

There’s no reason or logic in this found-footage yawner, and nothing rises to the level of even adolescent notions of sexy-scary.

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The Congress movie review (London Film Festival)

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
7 comments

A hugely ambitious film reminiscent of The Matrix and the works of Terry Gilliam while also carving out its own apocalyptic sci-fi space.

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Doctor Who thing: meet the Doctor Puppets and puppeteer/animator Alisa Stern

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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The boys in “person.”

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One Chance trailer: this is what reality television hath wrought

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
1 comment

It’s like Billy Elliot, except with opera singing. James Corden isn’t as charming as Jamie Bell, though.

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London photo of the day: the other side of the red carpet

Tue, Oct 22, 2013
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What it looked like from the other side of the barriers, at Saturday night’s London Film Festival gala screening of Half of a Yellow Sun.

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considering running ads here again

Mon, Oct 21, 2013
11 comments

Really don’t want to have to do that, but I’m getting pretty desperate. But there’s a way you can prevent it happening…

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