Glorious costumes cannot save trite recycled crap.
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Greg Bear's 500 page monstrosity measures its story line in trillions of years.
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Filters are how you get Logstash to interpret the data they're importing. They're tricky to write.
read more'Man of the West' - Movie Review
One of Gary Cooper's last films, a Western that's developed a good reputation in the years since its release - after a critical silence when it came out.
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An English movie made late in the Second World War, starring a very young Ray Milland, written by Graham Greene, and directed by Fritz Lang.
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A surprisingly decent movie about poor trash - both black and white - growing up in Detroit.
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An awful but nevertheless fascinating piece of science fiction trash fresh out of Japan.
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Bryson's mix of love and hate is turned on his adopted home of Great Britain.
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Not bad, but not worth tracking down unless you have a deep interest in old British heist movies.
read more'Love in the Afternoon' - Movie Review
Maurice Chevalier is hilarious in a movie about a romance that doesn't involve him.
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