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Month: November 2013

attention, Hollywood: the wild success of Gravity means audiences have no trouble identifying with a female protagonist

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
13 comments

You know how you just avoid making movies with female protagonists because you keep insisting that no one wants to see them? Pfffft!

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Gravity movie review: nowhere to go but down (London Film Festival)

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
43 comments

Stunningly accomplished space survival adventure: heartstopping and heartbreaking; the best film of 2013. Just don’t call it science fiction.

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Doctor Who thing: Myth Makers Presents: Golden Years 1963 – 2013

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
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A new print fanzine! I didn’t think anyone was actually printing fan fiction anymore — I thought it had all moved online.

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Only Lovers Left Alive trailer: maybe we aren’t “supposed” to be talking about this?

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
6 comments

Someone appears to believe they can control the dialogue about this film. Too late! People are already talking about it.

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London photo of the day: Morris dancers, milling about

Thu, Nov 07, 2013
2 comments

Getting ready to dance.

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Doctor Who thing: Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who

Thu, Nov 07, 2013
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All royalties from this collection of reminiscences — including many from those involved in making the current and classic show — go to charity.

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom trailer: modern history

Thu, Nov 07, 2013
1 comment

Now I know I’m getting old, because I remember the historical events we’re making movies about. Damn.

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London photo of the day: tall ship, tall buildings

Thu, Nov 07, 2013
1 comment

The edge of the Cutty Sark, in Greenwich, with the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf in the distance.

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Computer Chess movie review (London Film Festival)

Thu, Nov 07, 2013
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Dryly humorous and wonderfully weird, this is a preternaturally mundane evocation of early 80s nerdery and an almost scary peek at the history of AI.

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Trap for Cinderella review

Wed, Nov 06, 2013
2 comments

This overblown melodrama mistakes sensationalism for story, and is yet another repulsive tale of women’s friendships as toxic.

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