Varied Reactions to the Movie Avatar

In this article, the Avatar Effect, the Daily Mail reports on various reactions to the movie. Avatar is an incredibly beautiful and life-like movie; friends and I discussed how immersive it was, exactly as one would hope one’s favorite sci-fi novel could be transferred to the big screen. I could easily empathize with the pain [...]

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Sam Rockwell Has a Girl Butt

The boyfriend and I took in a film a couple of days ago, it was his first in the theatre in ages. Moon, a story of a man posted to a mining unit on the back side of Earth’s moon for a three year contract, was wonderful. No aliens, no sudden loud sounds, just psychological [...]

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Thank you, Mr. Dude!

In the past few days I’ve taken the tube a lot more than normal. On Sunday, I just couldn’t come up with an easy way to get from Ealing to Camden town, and was running out of time to pick up a bicycle stem (for the boyfriend), so ended up just going on the train. [...]

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Let the Right One In

Yesterday a few of us took advantage of the bank holiday to take in a mid-afternoon showing of Let The Right One In, a dark and serene Swedish horror story. There are times when an unremarkable performance can be obscured because the viewer doesn’t understand the spoken language and others when knowing the language is [...]

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