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the “wick effect” just debuted on midsomer murders
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— 29 Feb 2004 mark sinker Comment

the “wick effect” just debuted on midsomer murders, so underground culture is officially over (i wz flicking channels OK!!?)[…]

What is the key trait of being a loveably prolific screen actor.
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— 26 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

What is the key trait of being a loveably prolific screen actor. If you ask Michael Caine, it is probably something to do with the having the really prolifically (for which read bad) part of you career a good twenty years ago. These days Caine is rar[…]

Wive$watch
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— 26 Feb 2004 mark sinker Comment

Wive$watch:OK so Tanya had !!!triply!!! treacherous sex w.Conrad on a Lear Jet, carving her initial on his butt w.her fingernail extensions, for Amber to spot and know and weep. Isn’t this the entire plot of The Pillowbook, except hyper-compres[…]

Hunting on the web for information about St Trinians
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— 25 Feb 2004 mark sinker 1 comment

Hunting on the web for information about St Trinians – in particular when exactly Ronald Searle originally began drawing his cartoons (because some of them appear behind the credits in a proto-Trinians movie, 1950’s The Happiest Days of Y[…]

Some people might say that I deserved exactly what I got
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— 25 Feb 2004 Pete Baran 1 comment

Some people might say that I deserved exactly what I got when I decided to go and see an Argentinian Lesbian Road Movie. And for the first forty five minutes of Suddenly, I would have to agree with them. Despite the pleasingly grainy black and white […]

Now, I know I was blathering on about this in the pub last night,
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— 24 Feb 2004 CarsmileSteve Comment

Now, I know I was blathering on about this in the pub last night, but it really does need blogging. The second best thing about “The Ultimate Popstar” on Channel 4 last Sunday was Shakin’ Stevens being in the top 15 best selling si[…]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH 5: Lies Are Only Acceptible If They Are Really True
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— 20 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

I must admit I was getting a bit worried at the underlying message of Big Fish as it proceeded. This terrible old man had spent his whole life constantly lying abotu himself. Oooh-weee. I thought there’s paranoid delusional case at best, or evi[…]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH4: It is best to fall in love with someone and decide you are going to marry them without ever really speaking to them.
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— 20 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

Indeed it is even better that once you are married you still really don’t speak to them all that much. To the extent of not spending much time at home. After all they are just baby making machines who can be easily shut up by white picket fence[…]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH 3
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— 20 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

A man who spends most of his life away from his family looking after a random town and spending an excessive amount of time with an attractive young woman* is a good a decent husband and father just because he doesn’t shag her.
A lot of people […]

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH 2: Albert Finney and Jessica Lange are the same age.
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— 20 Feb 2004 Pete Baran Comment

FIVE LIES ABOUT BIG FISH
2: Albert Finney and Jessica Lange are the same age.
Lange born 20 April 1949.
Finney born 9 May 1936.
And yet it is wholly convincing that they met when they were eighteen in the flick. What is even more convincing is that […]

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