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  • Kill Bill

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    Kill Bill Teaser Trailer – it’s one of those trailers where you think, ‘I don’t care if the film is shit, the trailer is amazing.’

  • Old British Actors

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    Who will play wise, old men in 5-10 years? It’s an interesting question which deserves some attention ever since they’ve been looking for a replacement for Richard Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter. “Old British Actors, a non-renewable resource?”

  • Films

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    Not many updates recently, alas. I’ve been watching The Princess Bride and reading The Code Book, both of which I heartily recommend. I’ve also been emailing my crew mates for my upcoming mission at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in December and writing content for the MetaFilter wiki. I plan to write a couple…

  • Lagaan

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    Last night I saw Lagaan with a couple of friends. In short, Lagaan is about a group of Indian villagers who have to beat the local British soldiers at a game of cricket to rid themselves from an extortionate tax. At the same time, it’s a romantic comedy/musical/sports film; a little like a toned-down Moulin…

  • Reprise

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    Saw Donnie Darko a second time today, with a friend from Leeds; it survived rewatching quite well. Afterwards, I described my ‘Dance Dance Revolution’ theory of cognitive development to her. It’s a little like Piaget’s controversial theory (although obviously much sillier). Jean Piaget was a psychologist who believed that children when through qualitatively different levels…

  • Musical

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    The soundtrack CD of Spirited Away I ordered from Play.com arrived today, and it’s wonderful. While I wouldn’t go so far as saying that I don’t like Disney songs – there are, after all, some great ones – would it really hurt them that much to make a film without a single song? If they…

  • Donnie Darko

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    I saw Donnie Darko on Saturday; it’s a teen/SF/thriller/dark comedy movie, and not necessarily in that order. I thought it was very entertaining – there were some great lines in the school scenes, the music and direction was well done and overall the acting was good. It’s interesting how Donnie Darko turned out. Usually there’s…

  • Spiritng Neal Stephenson Away

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    A review of a lecture by award-winning SF author Neal Stephenson, on ‘Newton/Leibniz’, together with a review of Miyazaki’s film ‘Spirited Away’.

  • Spiriting Stephenson Away

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    Whee! Next Thursday (24th October) Neal Stephenson, one of my favourite SF authors, will be coming to speak at Trinity College about Newton vs. Leibniz. This would be good enough news on its own, but on the same night Queens College film society will be screening Spirited Away (known in Japan as Sen to Chihiro…

  • Phone Booth

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    After a bevy of worrying rumours, it seems that the suspense/thriller ‘Phone Booth’ will turn out well. Not only that, but it stars Kiefer Sutherland as a sniper! Any movie with Jack Bauer in it is bound to be good, in my book.