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Month: June 2014

London photo: build askew

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
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Something seems not quite right at this construction site.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction movie review: Everyday Bayism

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
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Rearranger of space and time Michael Bay has reached a level of aggressive self-actualization that perhaps no other human being has reached before.

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London photo: public art with civic pride

Sun, Jun 29, 2014
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In Hoxton, East London.

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They Came Together movie rating: green light

Sun, Jun 29, 2014
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It’s not as raunchy as the title suggests, but Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler pull off a hilarious sendup of every rom-com cliché with only a few (easily forgivable) missteps. I laughed a lot.

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Radio Free Albemuth movie rating: red light

Sun, Jun 29, 2014
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A too-literal adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid science fiction fantasy lacks the atmosphere and human feeling it demands to work on any level.

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London photo: friendly Tesco says hello

Sat, Jun 28, 2014
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The highlight of my Saturday? A visit to the friendly giant Tesco that says hello to you as you arrive. Pathetic.

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Siddharth movie review: gone boy gone

Sat, Jun 28, 2014
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An achingly personal tale of grief and despair amidst the ironies of the modern world, where almost medieval levels of misery live alongside 21st-century horrors.

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Peter Capaldi explains how surrealism is about sex

Sat, Jun 28, 2014
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You can almost pretend he’s already the Doctor here: what he’s wearing looks suspiciously like full-on badass Rebel Time Lord.

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Peter Capaldi sends words of encouragement to the Glasgow School of Art

Sat, Jun 28, 2014
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I might have a little something in my eye…

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the Doctor wonders if he is a good man…

Sat, Jun 28, 2014
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And that’s about all that happens in this new — and very short — teaser trailer for Season 8…

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