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Despot of the Week #7 – Benito Mussolini
In the first half of the 20th century, Europe was one seriously messed up place. It was a time that constituted the last bastion of the old, crumbling Empire building European states. Every tribe on...
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In Appreciation of… Socrates
Football doesn’t have any great characters these days. The increased professionalism of the game, with its emphasis on athleticism over skill and hard running over creative intelligence, has produced a...
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Blood and Redemption: Mean Streets Review
The screen is black. A voiceover intones: “You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.”A young man wakes from his bed...
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Carrousel d’amour: La ronde Review
An irreverent, knowing look at casual sexual desire and infidelity in turn of the century Vienna, Max Ophul’s La ronde is a witty, frivolous bit of cinematic confection, realised in exquisite style, if...
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Kill the American Dream: The King of Comedy Review
The world is still not ready for The King of Comedy. It bombed at the box office upon its 1983 release, and it remains the most overlooked, misunderstood and under-appreciated film in the collaborative...
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John Bolton Excited by Prospect of Nuking Iran
“John Bolton is the kind of man whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, or what the Bible describes as the final battle between good and evil” – Former US Senator and arch-conservative crackpot,...
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Despot of the Week #8 – Baron Ungern von Sternberg
“He’s out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.” - General Corman on Colonel Kurtz,...
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Smoking Really is Cool: Irrefutable Evidence Disclosed
Bahhh - the pleasure police are out to get us for everything these days. Call it the Calvinist / Protestant value system our modern day western cultures are ultimately derived from, but all that’s...
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Classy Space Opera: Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek, eh? While I’ve never been what you might call a devoted fan, I do have some affection for the original TV show. The series staples – William Shatner’s orotund pronouncements on the nature of...
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Walking Ghosts: Obama Steps up Nuclear Threat
“The walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning is a period of apparent health, lasting for hours or days, following an acute dose of radiation. As its name would suggest, the walking ghost phase is...
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