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At Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL. here's a a full-on emotional, three-hanky crowd-pleaser that freely fires the big guns of sentiment. And I was okay with that.


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One of the two films I saw at yesterday's SIFF press preview screenings. (The other, Paper Birds, I'll get to next.) I joined a nearly packed house. No surprise there - Ewan McGregor (feted this year at SIFF) and Eva Green! "Action/Adventure, Romance, SciFi and Beyond" exclaim SIFF's category tags! It's a slam-dunk!

Well, hmm.

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Found while walking Kai on a hitherto unexplored street near our house.


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Robbie Pickering's Natural Selection - at Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal.


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Another SIFF press preview screening today, the Wes Anderson-like British comedy Submarine. The write-up is at Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL.


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I'm not usually one to jump on the memewagon, and until today the recent Ten Things I Have Done That You Probably Haven't meme has, to me, come with a faint whiff of one-upmanship that put me off a bit. But I like how Elizabeth tweaked it into something more embracing, and I'm going to tweak it one further: Ten Random Things In My Past That Make Me ( Read more... )

Thus concludes, with a loud slam and the sound of a key in the lock, the past year and a half.


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