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Trolls movie review: you can’t stop the cute

Fri, Oct 28, 2016
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Cute and sweet and will put you to sleep, like a diabetic coma, and then it will smack you awake with its relentlessly cheery vivid-pastel optimism.

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Seville photo: tilework with naive art

Thu, Oct 27, 2016
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I wonder if these were drawn by children…

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Doctor Strange movie review: even Marvel is now tired of origin stories

Thu, Oct 27, 2016
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Busy with CGI to hide the emptiness where the emotional core should be. Even the mechanics of getting a man from mere mortal to demigod-in-a-cape are rote.

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Seville photo: roofscape

Wed, Oct 26, 2016
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View from a roof terrace…

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Ordinary World (aka Geezer) movie review: from manchild to midlife crisis

Wed, Oct 26, 2016
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May be unique in the cinematic annals of manchildren in that its protagonist goes from overgrown adolescent to midlife crisis without any intervening adulthood.

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Autumn Lights movie review: women make men feel things

Wed, Oct 26, 2016
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Dead and absent women cause a man to have feels, but in an ethereal way, you know, with “artistic” female nudity and nonsensical pseudophilosophical dialogue.

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Seville photos: this alien tree, though…

Tue, Oct 25, 2016
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I’m certain someone can reassure me that this tree is of entirely terrestrial origin.

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Adam Driver IS the Bus Driver!

Tue, Oct 25, 2016
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Poetry is his weapon…

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I, Daniel Blake movie review: this is our shame

Tue, Oct 25, 2016
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Lefty, loud, proud (and heartbreaking and infuriating with it). Rages against systems once meant to help people that have become machines intended to crush them.

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Seville photos: Plaza de Espana (aka Theed Palace, Naboo)

Mon, Oct 24, 2016
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The dorkiest ones first.

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