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Year: 2014

a reminder about commenting

Sat, Apr 05, 2014
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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Rio 2 review: jungle feeble

Thu, Apr 03, 2014
35 comments

This is what passes for a children’s movie these days: a 1950s sitcom drawn in pretty tropical CGI colors with a few mostly forgettable songs tossed in.

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La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus review: get on the bus

Thu, Apr 03, 2014
1 comment

Follow a humble yellow school bus as it is transformed into something joyous and defiant. It’s like discovering that your grandma is a secret agent.

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