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Harry Potter

Cinema du Sanity: the Harry Potter-ization of Hollywood issue

Thu, Aug 15, 2013
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Mortal Instruments: City of Bones — we still have no idea what it’s about either, except some more damn teenagers who can do magic, apparently.

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters review: clash-of-the-titan babies

Tue, Aug 06, 2013
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Spectacularly mediocre fantasy junk food, perfectly inoffensive for youngsters but too featherweight for adult genre fans.

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how easily do you identify with opposite-sex protagonists in movies (or TV, or books)?

Mon, Jul 01, 2013
54 comments

I’m particularly interested to hear from men about whatever limited experience they might have being forced to identity with a female hero.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jun 8-14 2013

Sun, Jun 16, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me):

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London photo of the day: Diagon Alley (sort of)

Thu, Jun 06, 2013
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Cecil Court, said to have inspired the wizard shopping street Diagon Alley in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Apr 27-May 3 2013

Sun, May 05, 2013
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Doctor Who blogging: “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”

Tue, Apr 30, 2013
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Really? A giant reset button? An actual in-fact for-real big-friendly reset button? Really?

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Sun, Apr 21, 2013
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Jack the Giant Slayer (review)

Fri, Mar 22, 2013
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Keeps trying to fly off into potentially fascinating directions and then getting yanked back into a mushy mediocrity…

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Russian meteor footage that Michael Bay would surely scoff at but everyone else will find horrifying (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Feb 15, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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