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Apr 14, 2024: Uproar

Julian Dennison elevates a very slight affair.

Apr 11, 2024: The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin and His Essex Gang

Apr 9, 2024: Lisa Frankenstein

Turns out that “Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered ’80s” is great, actually.

Apr 7, 2024: The Innocent

Classy, comic heist movie

Apr 7, 2024: Monkey Man

Monkey Nuts

Apr 6, 2024: Eileen

A very able Caine

Apr 4, 2024: Origin

Ava DuVernay in magnificent form adapting a work of non-fiction.

Apr 3, 2024: Femme

Lean, mean and electrifying

Apr 3, 2024: The Godzilla Beeper John Scalzi on the hows and whys of Godzilla’s multi-movie character arc. How do we go from the undeniable terror of Godzilla in these 1954 and 2023 …

Apr 2, 2024: She Came to Me

Marissa Tomei is a tugboat captain

Apr 2, 2024: All of Us Strangers

Less than the sum of it’s magnificent parts

Apr 1, 2024: Typist, Artist, Pirate, King

Something of a magic trick, this one.

An entirely fictional story, based on the life of artist Audrey Amiss, played here by the ever brilliant Monica …

Apr 1, 2024: Outlaw Johnny Black

Michael Jai White takes the Black Dynamite formula way out west.

Apr 1, 2024: Robot Dreams

A lonely dog builds a robot to be his best friend.

Aug 1, 2023: Big win for Dunedin’s ‘dicks guy’ The hospital’s abortion service was one of six locations that will become the country’s first …

Jul 18, 2023: Enemy Anemone

With Friends Like These…

The beauty of Enemy Anemone is found in its sleekness. This is what we mean when we call a game “elegant.” There is nothing …

Jul 10, 2023: Biden’s Unheralded War on Poverty Biden’s Unheralded War on Poverty The Great American Quit Rate (full name: Great American Quit-Your-Stinkin’-Job-for-a-Better-One Rate) has finally …

Jul 9, 2023: Wondermark by David Malki for July 09, 2023 | GoComics.com

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Jul 5, 2023: Pain, No Gain William Davies · Pain, No Gain: Inflation Fixation · LRB 13 July 2023 Weber’s argument, supported since with empirical analysis, was that profits …

Jul 4, 2023: Modern Britain makes Cyber Punk’s corporate dystopia seem almost twee A Blatant Injustice But this is not the worst of it. National Highways Ltd, a company owned by the government, is using a new strategy: passing on …

Jul 3, 2023: A Spicy New Take on Bean Dip From context collapse to content collapse In a 2010 interview with the journalist David Kirkpatrick, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg put it bluntly: …

Jul 3, 2023: Medieval sociopolitics? In my blog? It’s more likely than you think. /u/spez is right about feudalism and that’s why reddit as we know it is doomed Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have been making a lot of …

Jun 28, 2023: AI in three panels

Jun 26, 2023: Who’s the Cutest Little Dolphin? Is It You? Sometimes, they catch (dolphin) mothers and calves together, and the animals exchange signature whistles …

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Jun 17, 2023: Know Better (feat. CKay, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80') by Janelle Monáe New album from Janelle Monáe. Always a pleasure.

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Jun 10, 2023: Nimona hindsight Nimona is such a terrific novel and I’m really optimistic the film will do it justice. Not long till we find out.

Jun 9, 2023: Inflation Is Being Driven By Corporate Price Gouging The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Common Wealth think tanks have shown that …

Jun 9, 2023: The tenth anniversary of Iain Banks’ passing. Ten years on: Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) “When in Rome; burn it.” The State of the Art (1991). Ten years ago. Shit.

Jun 9, 2023: You Can’t Understand Modern China Without Looking at the History of Land Reform I always end my courses on modern China with two final messages for …

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Jun 7, 2023: The Chinese ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ poster is all kinds of amazing.

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Jun 7, 2023: What languages dominate the internet? Rest of World turned to W3Techs, a web-scanning firm based in Austria, to count all of the publicly accessible …

Jun 5, 2023: Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’ | Financial Times “There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone …

Jun 4, 2023: Lift your Spirit by KABEAUSHÉ

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Jun 4, 2023: Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack is just the best. Across the Spider-Verse (Intro) by Daniel Pemberton One of the best opening three minutes in films.

Jun 4, 2023: The AI pivot Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI “Current AI feels like something out of a Philip K Dick story because it answers a question very …

Jun 4, 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Calling it now: Film of the Year. Bloody hell.

Jun 3, 2023: Set The Roof by Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair Set The Roof by Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair

Jun 3, 2023: Germfree Adolescence by X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescence by X-Ray Spex

Jun 3, 2023: Where are my dentists....? How Did British Dental Care Get So Awful? | Novara Media Even before the pandemic, Britain had a relatively low number of dentists: in 2019, the …

Jun 2, 2023: Low Flying Fruit The Quietus | Features | Mourning Glory: Council Skies by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Reviewed By its composer and reviewers alike, …

Jun 2, 2023: Every Witch Way But Loose Intimate Majesty: Witch King by Martha Wells - Every Book a Doorway Witch King is the story of what happens when the world-changing adventures are …

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