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Month: July 2014

London photo: rainbow blob

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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I’m sure there is a cool meteorological word for a blob of rainbow all by its lonesome up in the sky, but I don’t know what it is.

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A Promise movie review: the waiting is the hardest part

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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This dreary, drippy period romance is sorely lacking in juicy melodrama and some sizzle among supposed stifled lovebirds.

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Step Up 5: All In (aka Step Up All In) movie review: dance fever

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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A series of amazing music videos featuring astonishingly athletic dancers expressing crazy-hot modern choreography strung together by a flimsy narrative. Kinda like old-school Hollywood musicals were.

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I did NOT call Hercules “a triumph”!

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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A first for me: being quoted way out of context so that (at best) some mild faint praise sounds like a rave.

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London photo: angel out the window

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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I think this is the side of the Bank of England building…

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Guardians of the Galaxy movie review: empty space

Wed, Jul 30, 2014
187 comments

Just another rote space adventure. It’s not actively awful, but there isn’t a single damn thing in the least bit surprising or memorable about it.

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London photo: bacon hypnosis

Wed, Jul 30, 2014
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I love how even the construction warning signs for pedestrians are flummoxed by the mention of bacon. “Should we walk this way, or that way?!”

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Yves Saint Laurent movie review: underdressed

Tue, Jul 29, 2014
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This biopic of “fashion’s little prince” offers all the elegant precision of a fashion shoot — it’s beautiful, and cold — but lacks a lot of necessary context.

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London photos: Lego bus stop

Mon, Jul 28, 2014
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Outside famous Hamleys toy store on Regent Street, there is a bus stop made entirely of Lego. Entirely.

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London photo: we’re all bastards

Sun, Jul 27, 2014
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Sticker graffiti spotted in Shoreditch.

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