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Month: April 2014

a few thoughts on a catch-up binge of Game of Thrones: Season 3

Sun, Apr 06, 2014
15 comments

I’m not sure anything — TV show or movie — that’s been based on a book has ever felt more like a book than GoT.

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what’s on Captain America’s catch-up list… and what *should* be on it?

Sun, Apr 06, 2014
45 comments

If you could add one thing to Steve’s list that he absolutely must catch up with in order to be considered a with-it 2010s kind of guy, what would it be?

| 45 Comments

a reminder about commenting

Sat, Apr 05, 2014
12 comments

Go start your own damn web site if you want to hurl abuse at people. Don’t even think about doing it here.

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while I binge-watch Game of Thrones S3 today, please enjoy this GoT opening credits sequence as if it were a 1970s sitcom

Sat, Apr 05, 2014
3 comments

These are the wages of procrastination: Season 4 of Game of Thrones starts tomorrow, and I haven’t seen Season 3 yet.

| 3 Comments

London photo: the BBC’s glass house

Fri, Apr 04, 2014
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The new glass extension to the old Art Deco BBC London HQ I featured yesterday…

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The Double review: now you see him… again

Fri, Apr 04, 2014
7 comments

A painfully funny odyssey of personal ineffectualness that is bitterly wonderful in how it revels in the decrepit horror of the everyday world.

| 7 Comments

Visitors review: stare into the face of humanity

Fri, Apr 04, 2014
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A weirdly beautiful film, eerie in its complicated simplicity, and open to seven billion interpretations, all of them valid.

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Tom at the Farm review: shoulda stayed in the city

Fri, Apr 04, 2014
4 comments

An overwrought pastiche of Hitchcock that makes less sense and renders its protagonist far less plausible the longer it goes on.

| 4 Comments

London photo: Art Deco airwaves

Thu, Apr 03, 2014
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The BBC’s Broadcasting House, its London HQ, near Oxford Circus.

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BaneCat: now is the time to laugh

Thu, Apr 03, 2014
2 comments

The Internet mixes cat videos and supervillains, and the result is glorious.

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