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Year: 2014

Particle Fever review: asking really big questions about the smallest possible things

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
5 comments

A funny, exhilarating, suspenseful documentary about the Large Hadron Collider, and how physics is more akin to philosophy and art than you may have imagined.

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Odd Thomas review: tonight, on a very special episode…

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
2 comments

It feels smaller and more rushed — and less plausible — than it should, but Anton Yelchin is charming, and the snappy comic tone sometimes works.

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OFCS names The Godfather the best Oscar Best Picture ever

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
8 comments

The members of the Online Film Critics Society — of which I am one — have jointly ranked the 86 movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Doctor Who thing: attend a free masterclass in makeup and FX in Cardiff on March 29th

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
1 comment

You can request up to four tickets in a random drawing…

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Sabotage redband trailer: gotta restrain my enthusiasm for this…

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
2 comments

David Ayer’s movies need really great actors to pull them off, and I don’t think Arnold Schwarzenegger has the chops for serious drama…

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London photo of the day: police love

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
1 comment

Another humorously altered No Entry sign…

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Paranoia review: low anxiety

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
1 comment

Offers nothing by way of suspense, intrigue, or characters who rise even a little bit above the yawningly bland.

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New York Times critic AO Scott is all boo-hoo waaaa grrl power

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
16 comments

Do you imagine that anyone — any single person — will accuse Scott of dragging feminism into everything?

| 16 Comments

Doctor Who thing: Lego now accepting Doctor Who fan-created projects

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
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Apparently, whatever licensing issue was preventing this before has been resolved…

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The Cold Lands trailer: guess MaryAnn’s reaction to this!

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
4 comments

Looks like this trailer picked the wrong week to cross my path…

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