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Russian Roulette Sunday: 7 Reasons: The Trailer: The Trailer

Russian Roulette Sunday: 7 Reasons: The Trailer: The Trailer

It’s Russian Roulette Sunday again and once more the saga of advertising our website rears its head.  We currently have a trailer – rather catchily entitled 7 Reasons: The Trailer – under construction.  We promised it to you several weeks ago, and it still isn’t ready yet.  It’s been a nightmare saga of broken computers, missing cameras, temperamental hairdryers and complications with rendering and frame rates...

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7 Reasons Bull Durham Is The Greatest Baseball Movie Ever

7 Reasons Bull Durham Is The Greatest Baseball Movie Ever

    1.  Women.  Unusually for baseball films, the central character is a woman.  This shouldn’t be unusual – some of the most passionate and knowledgeable sport fans I know are women – but it is.  The use of a female narrator and the fact that the baseball isn’t the only story in the movie – the journey that Susan Sarandon’s character goes on isn’t really about baseball at all – gives it a totally...

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7 Reasons to go to The Cinema

7 Reasons to go to The Cinema

1.  You are a basketball scout. Where better to find abnormally tall people to play in your team?  They’re always at the cinema, usually in the seat immediately in front of you. 2.  Gauge your normality. When, during the scalping scenes in Inglourious Basterds, the rest of the audience are gasping, groaning, covering their eyes and looking away while you’re grinning and thinking, “Cool!” you learn that there is probably something...

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