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Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

August 4th, 2012 By Chris Laverty

January… what a great month.

Folded:

Volkswagen Golf ?Fight? advert (this old dude kicks ass!)
Frost/Nixon (good/film)
Poirot re-runs over Christmas (nice, cosy TV.. .but now we're back in the real world, and it sucks)
Columbia Cream (not too sweet, not too sickly, the tang of a decent single malt, perfect for ?detoxing? or whatever they call it)
Lakeview Terrace (tough, miserable, gripping – have a good time)

Creased:

Star Stories? overuse of the Basic Instinct ?leg crossing? music (still a funny series, but the constant reliance on Jerry Goldsmith?s creepy Instinct score to indicate a twist in the story was seriously annoying)

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Golden Globes Noms: Good For Paedophile Priests, Bad For Batman

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

You know how this awards season is all about populism and less about three-hour sobathons starring Very Serious People?

Yeah, it’s not. We got that wrong. Sorry. Although WALL-E won Best Picture at a recent awards ceremony, the nominations for next year’s Golden Globes were announced yesterday, and they seem to indicate that it’ll be another good year for dreary films about troubled people who stare into the middle distance a lot.

Golden Globes front-runners include Doubt, Frost/Nixon and Revolutionary Road. So far so miserable. But Batman got a look-in too, with one nomination for, oh, the dead chap. Joy.

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