Category Archives: cinema

it’s Bollywood Week

Posted on Sunday, 2005 November 13 by Anton

Netflix’s list of new releases this week has five Israëli titles, ten Chinese and 55 Indian – not counting 23 collections of songs from Indian film.

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know your weapons

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 November 08 by Anton

A dreadful blunder in Granada Television’s version (1985) of “The Greek Interpreter”: in a non-canonical scene, Mycroft Holmes refers to a derringer as a “revolver”. Tsk!

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BrowncoatBlogging

Posted on Monday, 2005 October 24 by Anton

Unqualified Offerings cites numerous comments on Serenity, which I’ll read later.

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what’s so good about it

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 23 by Anton

Orson Scott Card reviews Serenity

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Framestore CFC Press Release

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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“Joss Whedon is my master now”

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 28 by Anton

Naturally, Serenity rawks. I’ll have to see it again with fewer noisy fans to drown out the jokes!

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medical waste

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 21 by Anton

Because of Hugh Laurie, I watched the first episode of House, M.D., and that was enough: if the premiere is so formulaic (mysterious and scary illness, misdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, affirmation of the value of human life, intuitive leap, happy ending) there’s … Continue reading →

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