There’s something very odd about the opening scenes in Shutter Island and it takes the entire film for you to put your finger on it. Shots don’t match between cuts,…
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A lovely meditation on permanence and impermanance from, of all places, Gizmodo: She's made a ghost bike for him, painted a thick-pipe commuter bike white with spray paint. Going to…
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When the New Zealand cricket team (note not BLACKCAPS™) first toured South Africa in 1953 they had never won a Test Match and were given no show against a ruthless…
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After watching so many films that are so similar in content and construction that they are hard to tell apart, it is a real pleasure to come across something that…
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Dave Eggers in The Guardian: "Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple…
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Before Jerry Dammers and The Special AKA wrote that song about him in 1983, I didn’t know who Nelson Mandela was. When I bought the record and read the story…
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