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Month: May 2012

Snow White and the Huntsman (review)

Tue, May 29, 2012
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Would really really like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so.

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (review)

Tue, May 29, 2012
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It’s intended to be delightful, but it feels as long as a pregnancy itself, this roundrobin of forcefully interconnected tales of incipient parenthood.

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watch it: “Always Help your Fellow Man”

Tue, May 29, 2012
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Dude records his daily bike commute on a helmet-mounted cam because he’s been hit by cars twice. One day, he captures himself buying food for a man rummaging through a garbage bin…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: the Dalek invasion of… Boulder, Colorado?

Tue, May 29, 2012
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Officials are mystified as to how the hacker got access to the roadworks construction sign. It’s easy with a sonic screwdriver…

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LOL (trailer)

Tue, May 29, 2012
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Apparently a truly terrible film that even Miley Cyrus’s fans wouldn’t come out for it in the U.S…

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question of the day: Which film would you gift to a child as an introduction to the wonders of cinema?

Tue, May 29, 2012
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The two that jump right to mind for me are, I think, obvious choices: The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars…

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London photo of the day: please feed your litter to the headless Dalek

Mon, May 28, 2012
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Thank you for your cooperation.

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he’s not called “Doctor Who” *grrrr* (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, May 28, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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watch it: if Wes Anderson made Men in Black III

Mon, May 28, 2012
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Mash up the trailers for Men in Black III and Moonrise Kingdom, and it becomes a nice little exercise in how much music and color impact mood.

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I see that the forum…

Mon, May 28, 2012
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…has gotten completely overrun by spammers, and isn’t being used by anyone…

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