Month: June 2004
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Cinema Chattering
A story that I can empathise with enormously in today’s Guardian. I hate all the chatting that people think they can get away with in the cinema – and also put it down to the advent of videos and watching films in home. Simon Busch, the author of the story, says that the protagonist in…
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The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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A Question of Blood
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Good Bye Lenin
It’s apparently very important that this film is Good Bye Lenin, and not Goodbye Lenin. I can’t say why really – not because I’d give the plot away, but I simply don’t know. It’s set in the months either side of the Berlin wall coming down, and a wonderfully communist mother who goes into a…
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The Day After Tomorrow
The science in this is dubious in the extreme, but you go to see a film like this for the special effects and the ride. I admit that I quite enjoyed it, and the effects are well done. I’ll ignore the blatant plugs for fellow Fox channels Fox News and Sky, the painful references to…
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Ipod Killer
So the iPod is, what, over two and a half years old now? My big question is why no-one has quite launched the iPod killer. Yes I know that the iRiver is pretty damn good and about a hundred quid cheaper than the equivalent iPod, but why aren’t there cheap Taiwanese or Chinese versions around…
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The Championship
I mean – really! So the old Fourth Division now becomes the Coca Cola League Two. What a load of nonsense. So you’ve got a new sponsor and a new logo – leave it at that. I think I may have to go back to calling everything Divisions 1 to 4.
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Roger Graef in Broadcast
Acclaimed film-maker Roger Graef has written an excellent essay for today’s Broadcast (subscription only). A few extracts: Now celebrating its 50th year, [ITV] has been a source of important landmark programmes in ways too often from unacknowledged in teh PSB debate. Pressure from advertisers and shareholders led to the shameful reduction of its current affairs…
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ID Card Secrecy “Slammed”
This sounds very encouraging. Looking forward to seeing the verbatims from the latest session.
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Sky Offers Free Package
Well this was only a matter of time, and I guess it was mainly a question as to how many subscriptions Sky see themselves losing, and how much they wanted to subsidise the box for. At £150 they’ve pitched it pretty well, although I’m unsure whether that includes the installation. (UPDATE – this price includes…
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Lost My Faith
Well, more like, I’ve lost my faith in Faithless. I really like the current single, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the new album was out on Monday. BUT… it’s got “Copy Control” on it, so it’s not a real CD. I won’t be able to easily copy it across to my minidisc. The disc will…