In the Shadow of the Valley of the UltraVixens

WTF!?

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:23:06 +0000

Online news sources are reporting that the actress Brittany Murphy has died, following a full cardiac arrest. She was 32. Obviously I'm hoping this news isn't true, but I guess we'll find out more tomorrow. I can't pretend to be familiar with eve...

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The 'Misfits' Finale...

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:51:34 +0000

Hmmm... what to make of that? At times it felt a little too monster-of-the-week-y, and barely touched on the major “elephant in the room” (or corpses in the store room, if you like) of the main series arc. Again, the action was largely confined t...

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'Tis the Season...

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:53:01 +0000

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Lauren Socha as “Kelly”

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:52:42 +0000

Finally managed to catch up with the first five episodes of Misfits (hurrah for the internet!), just in time for the series finale this Thursday. The pitch used in a lot of reviews was “Heroes meets Skins”, but really it’s more like “Smallville ...

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Unsolicited End-of-Year Opinions...

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:50:25 +0000

I see a lot of mags/sites are breaking out their “Best of the Decade” lists, but I can’t be doing with that. Amélie remains my favourite film of all time, so it follows that it’s my fave of the decade... beyond that, there are too many likely can...

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Paloma Faith

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:35:22 +0000

As the lead “Emo” Andrea in St Trinian’s, Faith scored herself a considerable amount of screen time, although I didn’t really notice her until she ditched the face-paint and piercings, and appeared as herself on an episode of Never Mind the Buzzc...

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Dear Santa...

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:47:17 +0000

All I want for X-Mas this year is a cheque for $30 Million, and Sarah Silverman on my arm. Make it so! (Aside from being a window into my dearest day-dreams, this is also a still from a new movie starring Steve Buscemi, called Saint John of ...

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Jane Horrocks as “Bubble”

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:34:42 +0000

Horrocks first caught my eye as the foxy Nirvanah Crane, seducing Rimmer in an episode of Red Dwarf... but that same year (1992) she also made her debut as Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous. I always enjoy it when a “ditzy” character crosses the line...

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Nigella Lawson

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:31:32 +0000

As winter approaches, a young man’s fancy inevitably turns to thoughts of Nigella. Or at least, this man’s fancy does. She’s such a charming, well-spoken woman, I could quite happily sit and watch her read the telephone directory... so long as sh...

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Women in Hollywood

nobody@vox.com(CrowSeer) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:19:01 +0000

While doing my usual Big S picture-trawl, I came across this interesting article in Jezebel, about the absence of female writers on the staff of big TV shows and movies. Now, as noted further down the article, when they claim that The Sarah Silve...

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