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Entries from January 23rd, 2010

On 500 Days of Summer

January 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews

First impression: I am going to hate this movie. Reason: the titles! Again! This time it was a ridiculous assemblage of cliches. Well, two cliches: 1) Split-screen ubercute home movies of our main characters, set to 2) one of those this-side-of-twee generic indie songs voiced by a woman who probably looks like a pixie. (It’s [...]

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On Duplicity: A quickie review(ish)

January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews

I’m trying this new thing of watching movies within a week of getting them from Netflix. I’d heard relatively good things about Duplicity and who am I to turn away Clive Owen, so I watched it last night. Straight off the bat the movie ticked me off in a couple different ways: first, within the [...]

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Hang on, I’ve got notes for this.

January 5th, 2010 · View Comments · writing

Round about the beginning of December I thought to myself (it has only just occurred to me now what a stupidly redundant phrase that is. I apologize) that I really do miss this sort of writing (by which I mean this sort of freeform “I’ve got nothing to say but it’s OK” random babbling thing [...]

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