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Mar 14 2007
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Review: Hot Fuzz and five more ...

By Cinema, Reviews

Hot Fuzz posterIt is, of course, com­pletely bril­liant. And loud. And while it’s not quite as per­fect as pre­de­cessor (and cinema re-definer) Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz is as enter­tain­ing a night out as you’ll find anywhere.

Co-creator Simon Pegg plays PC Nicholas Angel, top cop, so good he’s mak­ing the rest of the Met look bad. He’s reas­signed to the sleepy west coun­try vil­lage of Sandford where, apart from a one-swan crime-spree, the peace is nev­er breached. Of course, in a pic­tur­esque English vil­lage noth­ing is what it seems and Angel and part­ner Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) are going to bust this thing wide open, whatever “it” might actu­ally be.

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Mar 13 2007
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Monday Morning Box Office from Defamer

By Asides, Cinema

Monday Morning Box Office from Defamer:

1. 300–$70.025 mil­lion
A what-the-fuck run at the box office fea­tur­ing a $44 mil­lion open­ing for Nic Cage art film Ghost Rider and $38 mil­lion for critic-proof John Travolta leather-daddy road-trip pic­ture Wild Hogs just got what-the-fuckier with 300 set­ting the record for the best-ever March debut. Even the pres­id­ent of Warner Bros. dis­tri­bu­tion dared to dream of a $35-$40 mil­lion first week­end, under­es­tim­at­ing the pub­lic’s appet­ite for epic, CGI-enhanced Greek bond­age flicks (sweaty six-packs really pop with com­puter high­light­ing) by about half.

Mar 10 2007
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Apple: America's best retailer in Fortune

By Apple, Asides

Apple: America’s best retail­er in Fortune:

That’s what makes Apple such a hard study: The sub­ject won’t sit still for its por­trait. “I can­’t even remem­ber Apple without the stores,” says Jobs. It’s a state­ment of how integ­ral they’ve become to the com­pany; 8,000 of Apple’s 20,000 employ­ees, he notes, work in retail. But it’s also a remind­er that what we’re glimpsing are his taillights.

Mar 02 2007
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The Spin handicaps the Cricket World Cup

By black caps, Cricket, Sport

From The Spin, The Guardian’s occa­sion­al crick­et e‑mail:

New Zealand

Suddenly, you quite fancy them. A lower-middle order of Jacob Oram and Brendon McCullum means they are nev­er out of the game; Shane Bond – assum­ing he does­n’t break down – could be the fast­est man in the com­pet­i­tion; and Stephen Fleming has regained the repu­ta­tion he lost in England in 2004 as the smartest cap­tain in the game. Lack of bowl­ing depth and the occa­sion­al tend­ency of the top order to go awol are both con­cerns, but the off-spinner Jeetan Patel could be one of the com­pet­i­tion’s unsung her­oes. And they will field like Lou Vincents. Very back­able dark horses.

One-day record since last World Cup: P88 W44 L39 T0 NR5
Last 10 matches: W5 L5

Brendan McCullumThe stats are very inter­est­ing. I’ve always said that in One Day crick­et the best NZ can ever really expect is to win as many as we lose and we are just ahead of that over the last four years.

“All I ask for is a little con­sist­ency” say the pun­dits. Well, you can only be con­sist­ently win­ning or con­sist­ently los­ing and the first one isn’t real­ist­ic so I’ll take the glor­i­ous incon­sist­ency thanks.

But then again, all we need is sev­en wins in a row from March 17 and we are home free.

And the TAB has us at $7.00 with Australia at $2.75; South Africa $5.00 and India $8.50. I might get a piece of those odds come pay day.

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