Category Archives: cinema

mon pote

Any French film buffs in the audience? I’m trying to remember the title of a movie in which one of the main characters brags of his « collection intégrale des Livres de Poche » (complete collection of Pocket Books). If memory serves, … Continue reading

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bedfellows

Andrew Bulhak observes: (The identity of heroes/villains in films can be telling; for example, there’s Four Feathers, which glorifies the British Empire (which can be seen as a rather prestigious model to proponents of a a global American empire) and … Continue reading

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aren’t they cute

In Dave Langford’s latest Ansible: FANTASY DEFINITIONS MASTERCLASS. Years ago John Clute, John Grant, and their Encyclopedia of Fantasy team wrestled with tough problems of defining fantasy and telling good from bad. If only they’d had the help of Tom … Continue reading

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every planet has quarries

If I ever visit England again, I must look up some of these Doctor Who locations, particularly Aldbourne alias Devil’s End.

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another day, another blogpost

Learned this week: a pimple can be quite astonishingly painful, if it’s in the ear-canal. Miyazaki’s 千と千尋の神隠し Spirited Away was fun. I wonder how many of the monsters in the background could be recognized (by a trufan) from other works. … Continue reading

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they’re creepy and they’re kooky

Was anyone else disappointed by the portrayal of Thing in the Addams Family feature films? In the tv series, I understood Thing to be a person (of unknown nature) who dwelt in a parallel space, intersecting with ordinary space only … Continue reading

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signs

If this were in Mad, it would be called Crop Circles We’d Like To See. “Soap on a Rope” recently marked its thousandth strip. You could do worse than to read it from the beginning.

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