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Month: April 2014

Under the Skin movie review: sex as a weapon

Wed, Apr 09, 2014
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Scarlett Johansson is an alien serial killer who sexes men to death in a misogynist fanboy wet dream that also fails to satisfy as science fiction.

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this is what happens when adolescent fanboys dominate the movie web

Wed, Apr 09, 2014
8 comments

It’s fascinating what IMDb users feel is urgent to inform other movie fans about, isn’t it?

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I Am Yours (Jeg er din) review (Birds Eye View Film Festival)

Wed, Apr 09, 2014
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Culture clash amplifies the options open for a young Pakistani-Norwegian woman in this quietly compelling film.

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London photo: don’t even think about taking the stairs

Tue, Apr 08, 2014
6 comments

Still, there’s almost always some showoff taking the stairs.

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Grand Piano review: not enough notes

Tue, Apr 08, 2014
3 comments

Builds up a good momentum of suspense only to throw it away on a rushed, unsatisfying ending, rendering all its preposterousness suddenly unforgivable.

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the Webby nominees are out (I help choose ’em)

Tue, Apr 08, 2014
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Because I’m awesome.

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Too Sane for This World review: across the autism spectrum

Tue, Apr 08, 2014
13 comments

An enlightening portrait that sheds much needed light on a subculture that could do with some demystifying.

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London photo: Little Tramp statue outta nowhere

Tue, Apr 08, 2014
2 comments

I’ve been in London for more than three years, and I’m in Leicester Square all the time, and I have never noticed this statue of Charlie Chaplin before.

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Game of Thrones S04 E01: “Two Swords”

Mon, Apr 07, 2014
8 comments

So many ominous things in this episode. So what else is new?

| 8 Comments

movies that pass the Bechdel Test make more money than movies that don’t

Sun, Apr 06, 2014
19 comments

If Hollywood were truly all about money, Hollywood would know this already.

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