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Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection melds Chandleresque crime and Chesterton-inspired fantasy and comes up with a whole new flavour. by Arthur B
Same Vodka, Different Bottles Comrade Czyrnyj accuses The Red Star of right deviationism. by Alasdair Czyrnyj
Girl in the Dystopia Kyra Smith on Lise Haines' Girl in the Arena. by Kyra Smith
Six Hours of My Life I Won't Get Back If the entire Critters film series were wiped out of history absolutely nothing of value would be lost. by Arthur B
Breeding Lilacs out of the Dead Land Dan Hemmens Rambles About an Internet Multimedia Thingy by Daniel Hemmens

The Oscar trailer is great, although based on the last few years (thankfully) more of a lampoon of films that seem to be setting out to win an Oscar than films than actually do. (And here's <a... at 16:07 on 13-03-2010 by Niall - link
I am unreasonably excited about this. at 15:05 on 13-03-2010 by Arthur B - link
Enthusiastic expression of enjoyment! Link to thematically similar video. at 19:07 on 12-03-2010 by Arthur B - link
It was definitely done well enough that it was no longer cheap. I especially love little details like "Murmur of agreement." And the performances are what make it spot on. "Impassioned plea! W... at 18:24 on 12-03-2010 by Sister Magpie - link
It may be a cheap joke but it was done so well - the tone of it is just spot-on! at 16:36 on 12-03-2010 by Andy G - link

on I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, Find Someone Who'll Translate This Right : Speaking as someone who works as a freelance translator, I agree that it's best for the person to be a native speaker in the language th... 16:33 on 14-03-2010 - Melissa G. - link
on I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, Find Someone Who'll Translate This Right : It's actually been shown that true bilingualism (i.e. being a native speaker in two languages) doesn't make you a better translator, bec... 12:59 on 14-03-2010 - Andy G - link
on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre : Really? I'm very fond of them. Never mind. 09:22 on 14-03-2010 - Shimmin - link
on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre : I remember being very, very unimpressed with Thraxas. It felt like substandard Chandler being written by substandard Pratchett. :... 23:00 on 13-03-2010 - Arthur B - link
on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre : That sounds pretty good. I'll look out for it. It sounds a bit Jasper Fforde as well, in terms of the casual interweaving of total odd... 22:56 on 13-03-2010 - Shimmin - link