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Musings without a good name for my blog: 988 minutes
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Musings without a good name for my blog. 22 February, 2015. So here's the thing,. The Grand Budapest Hotel ,. The Imitation Game ,. The Theory of Everything ,. American Sniper ,. Selma , and. Whiplash , after the break.]. Guild awards in recent weeks have pointed to a shift in the expected Best Picture winner. For a long time, it was looking like Boyhood. But it was a direction the film took that I did not care for. I'm also unsure about the ending. I'll avoid spoilers, but because the film constantl...
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Musings without a good name for my blog: Attack Redux
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Musings without a good name for my blog. 22 July, 2012. So here's the thing,. Comments on 34 films, plus one short film, after the jump.). THE TREE OF LIFE. See the trailer here. Add to that some of the most beautiful film shooting you will see - whatever you think of the film as a whole, there's always something striking or interesting to look at on the screen. And the acting is great, particularly by Brad Pitt, as the frustrated and angry over-disciplinarian father. Biggest surprise: I'd heard so many ...
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Musings without a good name for my blog: Shadow Redux
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Musings without a good name for my blog. 29 June, 2013. So here's the thing,. Thoughts on my 2012 film festival after the break]. Beasts of the Southern Wild. The film is carried by the performance of 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis, who is absolutely phenome. The film has been getting wild praise ever since premiering at Sundance, and it's patently clear why. This is an incredible film. The Cabin in the Woods. Hopefully vague spoilers follow.). That's a loaded question.". Wes Anderson is one of those direc...
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Musings without a good name for my blog: Dawn Redux
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Musings without a good name for my blog. 23 July, 2015. So here's the thing,. Comments on 29 films follow after the jump]. What makes the film worth watching are the lead performances by Hader and Wiig. The two of them started on Saturday Night Live. On the whole, an enjoyable film experience, but I am hoping for much more from the festival. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. And Grave of the Fireflies. Ending with the announcement of Miyazaki’s retirement. I don’t really know a lot about Dune. And moder...
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Three Hindi phrases | On The Boundary
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Highlighting noteworthy interviews and articles from the New Zealand cricket scene. The Herald’s Andrew Alderson, on the skills new New Zealand coach John Wright brought to the table. During his five years as coach of India:. In his time with India, he claimed to have learned three phrases of Hindi – chalo (let’s go), jaldi (quickly) and A.C. bund (air conditioning off). Yet Hindi was the main dialect in the dressing room. 8211; NZ Herald, 2 January 2011. Laquo; Playing with the big boys.
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F, FLP | Object Dart
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Message on the airwaves. Falling, Folding Leaves of Paper. They always talk about that, ay? That pitter-patter of little feet and what it means for the happiness of families. Each of them a little bundle of joy. A trouble that’s a little one. Every goddamn cliché you can imagine all packed into a 3 by 2 crib and stuck mewling and crying in a room to look at a over-priced mobile and a ceiling of ‘ivory’. But it’s all the bullshit. I got up to. The ones who suffer at the hands of our parents? What it is to...
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medical history | Object Dart
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Message on the airwaves. Okey-dokey. i’m having such a bunch of trouble getting to see a heart specialist i thought i’d start documenting when and where things aren’t really happening at all…. This all starts last year (2006) when i had to go to the emergency ward (EW) four or five times. the first time i went the heart had been playing up all night, kind of beating erratically and the like. i went into the EW and they couldn’t track the problem, so i went home. The next time it happened they. So, the ne...
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Watch what you eat | On The Boundary
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Highlighting noteworthy interviews and articles from the New Zealand cricket scene. Watch what you eat. From Andy Bull’s Guardian cricket newsletter, The Spin. Last Saturday Thompson bowled 10 straight overs in Central District’s one-day semi-final win against Canterbury. They cost 36 runs, and he did not take a wicket and could not manage a maiden, but boy did he suffer some. Thompson ate the kebab in question on the Friday before the match. “He is kicking himself a bit because he is supposed ...8220;Th...
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