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question of the day: What are the best death scenes ever?

Wed, Oct 17, 2012
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I’m going with the shower scene in Psycho, which represents an elegance in the depiction of something horrific that no other filmmaker has come close to replicating.

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London photo of the day: you want ventilation with that?

Wed, Oct 17, 2012
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A restaurant built into piled-up shipping containers on Southbank.

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Torchwood is real, maybe (probably not) (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Oct 17, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Midnight’s Children (London Film Festival review)

Wed, Oct 17, 2012
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Elegant looking and well intentioned, but epically bloated and choking on its own would-be grand metaphor…

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Paranormal Activity 4 (review)

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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It’s the Where’s Waldo of spooky stories. (Where’s the ghost? Find the ghost!) But much less fun.

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Doctor Who thing of the day: if the Doctors were Disney princesses

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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I’m not quite sure what to make of this…

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Broken City (trailer)

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, together again for the first time!

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question of the day: What historical or modern personage would you most like to see a filmed biography about?

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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And what actor would you cast?

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London photo of the day: coffee in your face

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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There was a small space left in the universe that was not adorned with an ad. Thankfully, the British coffee chain Costa has now remedied this.

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is your family a Walt Disney World Family? (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Oct 15, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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