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Movie: Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby has got about the same emotional intensity as Crash (same script writer) or Shawshank Redemption (also starring Morgan Freeman). Having recently watched Gran Torino, it struck me...
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Movie: The Wrestler
This is a sad story which follows the life of a wrestler – the kind of American wrestling that’s just a show, where they decide beforehand what they’re going to do to each other, cutting each other,...
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Movie: The Hangover
I thought the first third of this movie was funny. The characterisation was set up, none of them were likable (but in really funny ways) and they got themselves into a bizarre, bizarre situation....
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Movie: Dead Girl
(Not to be confused with The Dead Girl starring Toni Collette, which I haven’t seen.) Okay so I wasn’t expecting a slasher movie. That’s the risk you run when you make the decision to keep away from...
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When did movies get so same-same?
I kind of love that someone woke up one day and thought to themselves, “You know what this world needs? Another Planet of the Apes movie.” - Nathan Bransford In the movies, the impact of...
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Movie Review: Sideways
I hated this movie. And that would make a nice, short blog post, but it’s always worth considering why. 1. The cheesy soundtrack. At funny moments (which I never found funny) the soundtrack turned...
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Movie Review: Into The Wild
I knew nothing about this movie before going into it. It’s far too easy these days to know far too much about a movie before you’ve even seen it, courtesy of the internet. I was taking a stand against...
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Nemesis by Philip Roth
This book is about polio. Several years ago I visited the supermarket to buy Panadol infant drops, on the recommendation of the mother-and-child-health nurse who’d just given my daughter another round...
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American Words Used in School Stories
Down Under, we grow up reading American books and watching American TV, so the following words are familiar even if we don’t use them ourselves. That said, our language and culture is borrowing more...
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Maps Of And About America
A map of the USA drawn Lord Of The Rings Style A disturbing map of states which may well be under water by 2100, from io9 Maybe the weirdest map of America ever printed, also from io9. I’d maybe...
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