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the book of eli

Worthwhile and slightly less so.

Folded:

  • Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser @ The Roundhouse (buy your tickets here. Charlie Brooker’s going if you need cynicism in your midst)
  • Apple iPad (it’s a lovely fat iPhone)
  • Vacuum cleaners (If you haven’t left home yet, for goodness sake do so and buy one. They look like jet packs now)
  • Assassin’s Creed 2 ending (brilliantly ‘out there’. This fella on YouTube has a rough handle on what it all means, even if his spelling is beyond atrocious)
  • Newswipe (funnier and more accessible than the last series, i.e. more Brit gags that some of us without 450 channels can follow)

Creased:

Avatar, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, SmokingOK, sit down. This might come as a shock to some of you. Deep breaths, though – together we can get through this.

It’s about Avatar. Ready? It’s still the weekend box office number one. Yes, we know, it’s still losing ground each week, and on Friday it looked as though it was going to be beaten by The Book of Eli this week. But that was never really going to happen, was it?

Of course not – everyone knows that the hot new weekend box office thing is slightly tedious movies about blue inexplicable Jesus figures. And that’s where The Book Of Eli slipped up – it’s a slightly tedious movie about an inexplicable black Jesus figure. So near and yet so far!

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