Note to self: NEVER upgrade anything last thing at night! Just upgraded WordPress to 2.3.2 and various things have broken including typographical quotes like ’ and ” some of the…
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The new Cat Power reviewed in The Guardian by Maddy Costa: She seems no less nervous than in her depressed, chaotic past, but in stamping out the weak parts of…
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day in 1979. They remained in the country, brutally suppressing the local resistance, until they were forced to leave in 1989: almost ten…
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When I was sixteen or so, I was called in to the Careers’ Teacher’s office (next door to the woodwork room) for my one and only “careers” meeting. Mr Farquhar…
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Firstly big ups to Mike Hopkins of Wellington for another Sound Dept. nomination, this time for Transformers. Mike already has two Oscars for LOTR: The Two Towers and for King…
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2008 is shaping up to be a year of great films about people being beastly to each other and the first cab off the rank is Tim Burton’s majestic adaptation…
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