January 2011
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Orson Welles's unseen masterpiece set for release... →
Ooooooh, interesting:
An unfinished “masterpiece” filmed by Orson Welles nearly four decades ago is finally to reach the screen.
The Other Side of the Wind portrays the last hours of an ageing film director. Welles is said to have told John Huston, who plays the lead role: “It’s about a bastard director… full of himself, who catches people and creates and destroys them....
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The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist... →
Hooked from the very first para:
At 2:28 pm on August 28, 2003, a middle-aged pizza deliveryman named Brian Wells walked into a PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had a short cane in his right hand and a strange bulge under the collar of his T-shirt. Wells, 46 and balding, passed the teller a note. “Gather employees with access codes to vault and work fast to fill bag with $250,000,” it...
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Restaurant review: Giles Coren at Byron review |... →
This review of Byron Burgers is from several years back, and it triumphantly skewers the notion of “gourmet” fast food:
They have incredibly inflated, superlative-inducing names: Ultimate Burger; Gourmet Burger; Wicked Blinding Mental Burger with Knobs On; and they all boast grass-fed, arse-licked, pan-killed, dry-aged, stone-seared fillet of a half-cow/half-mermaid Sports Illustrated...
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Drop7 iPhone Review - iPhone Review at IGN →
A recent discovery, perfect for the morning commute:
Sometimes it is difficult to describe exactly why a game grabs you. The simplicity of Drop7’s concept is largely the reason for me. Within 60 seconds, you understand everything you need to know about the game. Plus, the game gets tough, but it’s not evil. Logic prevails since you’re dealing in absolutes. And so at no point does...
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The King's Speech – review | Film | The Observer →
For a change, let’s link to a review by a critic who isn’t Roger Ebert. The subject matter is so terribly British, after all:
The social and political background, acutely observed and carefully woven into the film’s fabric, is the Depression at home, the rise of fascism abroad, and the arrival of the mass media as a major force in our lives. Central to the dramatic action are...
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Fight For Your Pixelated Life In The... →
A blogger’s cribsheet to the gaming craze du jour, Minecraft:
In short, you are alone in a world that wants you dead, and you have no choice but to dig, build, and explore to keep alive. It’s a giant, open-ended sandbox world that repopulates with deadly monsters every night. It’s a classic horror story.
It’s the dark mystery which initially hooks you, but it’s...