A good movie about a (real) doctor who made the NFL acknowledge that their players might be getting some very nasty cumulative brain damage.
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Mos Def annoys for the duration, and a gritty movie is badly paid off by an unbelievable ending.
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A middle-of-the-road Anime from Studio Ghibli that doesn't live up to their best output.
read more'Nothing Sacred' - Movie Review
A well-regarded but rather poor screwball comedy from 1937 about a newspaper reporter and a fake tear-jerker of a story.
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"Programmer fonts" are a big debate in the programming community: knowing how to find and use them in Linux is useful.
read more'20 Feet From Stardom' - Movie Review
Just behind the stars of rock and roll, there are the supporting singers ... and now we have a good documentary film about them.
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Opening text files from a GUI file manager in Vim running in a text terminal
read more'Johnny and the Bomb' - Book Review
Johnny Maxwell either has a fantastic imagination or a very weird life. He's from 1996, but in this book, he visits his British hometwon during World War 2.
read more'American Ultra' - Movie Review
Funny for thirty minutes, violent verging on boring for an hour.
read more'The Last Stormlord' - Book Review
A weak 700 page "epic" fantasy, the start of a three book series I'll never finish.
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