Henry Rollins turns in a great performance as a thousands-of-years old unkillable occasional cannibal who tries to stay away from other people. (Yup, it's weird.)
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Crazy SF premise, good actors, great look, lousy follow-through.
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All I wanted was Grunt ... which led to an odyssey with Node.js under Linux that I really wasn't expecting.
read more'A Touch of Sin' - Movie Review
Loved by critics, this Chinese anthology of stories about people turning to violence is well filmed, bleak and depressing.
read more'Blitz' - Movie Review
A typical Jason Statham movie - violent and not particularly deep.
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Setting up SSL/TLS is tricky: here's some basic stuff about history and settings, mostly aimed at Nginx.
read more'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' - Movie Review
A not exactly out of sequence "special" episode of "Sherlock" sends our heroes back to 1890.
read more'The Farthest Shore' - Book Review
The third book (and last of the initial trilogy) in the "Earthsea" trilogy, The Farthest Shore sees Ged and a new companion facing their own mortality.
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Clint Eastwood's heavy-handed but somewhat charming voyage into Americana.
read more'The Tombs of Atuan' - Book Review
Sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea, this is also a coming-of-age tale - but the feel is radically different.
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