Tag: review

  • Learning from old movies

    GROSS is my first Substack thing. It’s film reviews, which I hope are funny and interesting and unpretentious. — It’s also my personal low-effort way to learn about the whole…

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  • Chaps in trouble

    We’ve got to 1919. The officer class over-reaches itself and gets stuck on the ice. It’s a disaster but it all works out in the end. — Every year’s top-grossing…

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  • An organised crime drama with a dramatic police raid and an ultra-modern remote surveillance storyline

    It’s called Traffic in Souls and it’s an extraordinarily modern movie – a prototype for a whole new category — TRAFFIC IN SOULS: WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS, GEORGE LOANE TUCKER,…

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  • Five radio station iPhone apps

    Dandelion Radio Update, 30 June. Paul Webster, on Twitter, prompted me to stick a sixth radio iPhone app in here at the top of the post: a lovely app from…

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  • BBCi cuts deep. Nobody notices

    Unlike the rest of the media, Owen Gibson in The Guardian has noticed that the BBC has trimmed the size of its interactive division (BBCi) by a third and frozen…

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  • On being a parent

    tigerchild.com is one of the many treasures unfairly knocked around by the ‘great crash’. Running a content web site these days must be a thankless task but the tigerchild people…

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