Archive for 2013
Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
For want of some human touch - no matter how brutal - it's out of the frying pan and into the fire as Tatsumi Kumashiro's A Woman With Red Hair (1979) exchanges one abusive relationship with another. Stephen Tan reviews.
Tatsumi Kumashiro's A Woman With Red Hair (1979) is one of ...
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Saturday, December 28th, 2013
WITH BOB ON WHOSE SIDE?
BigO ran a No B.S. Contest No. 26 (Jan 17, 2013) and asked what readers thought about record labels that release very limited quantities of rare recordings just to avoid losing their copyright control over the recordings. Read it here.
Well, the same label, Sony Music, has ...
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Thursday, December 26th, 2013
A brand new entrant to the torrent site market is set to take the Internet by storm. A P2P veteran, fresh from defeating the major recording labels in a 13 million euro lawsuit, has obtained 1.6 million euros from the Spanish Government to power his new dream – a 30 ...
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Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Something's amiss in the state of Mirkwood. In this follow-up to Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, The Desolation Of Smaug (2013), Critic After Dark Noel Vera decries the lack of skin and the "S" word in Tolkien's oh-so-long trilogy.
Putting it out and aside, my official position on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: ...
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Saturday, December 21st, 2013
All it takes is for one man to say "I've had enough". Only then can the truth be told. By Gilad Atzmon.
In the Palestinian Solidarity Movement we really love celebrities - those famous, rather special people who write great books, play musical instruments (drums included) or even just think great ...
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Thursday, December 19th, 2013
One Norwegian officer left Lebanon with a typed report on torture taped to his chest. By Robert Fisk.
Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, one more joke, one more historical ...
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
Gary Mak's SDU: Sex Duties Unit (2013) may look fine on paper but there's just not enough vulgarities and sex to spice up this outting. Stephen Tan reviews.
Gary Mak's SDU: Sex Duties Unit (2013) probably owes its existence to the successes of Microsex Office (2011) and Vulgaria (2012). The novelty ...
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Roger Waters on music; the political role of artists; and his activism for justice around the world, including in Palestine. Interview by Frank Barat.
Frank Barat: When did you make the decision to make the Wall tour (that ended in Paris in September 2013) so political? And why did you dedicate ...
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Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
November 23, 2013 saw the broadcast of the Dr Who 50th Anniversary Special - The Day Of The Doctor. The show was broadcast simultaneously in 94 countries, and was shown concurrently in 3D in some cinemas. A big Dr Who fan, Critic After Dark Noel Vera joins in the celebration.
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Saturday, December 7th, 2013
The emergence of experimental legally autonomous startup zones in Honduras and other places is one of the most exciting developments in a long time, and forebodes the collapse of the copyright industry’s tyranny over culture and knowledge. By Rick Falkvinge.
I believe in competition. I believe in experimentation to see what ...
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