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Posts Tagged ‘cinema’

CHEAPER, FASTER, CANADIANER

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America likes to think that nobody can make a crappier, B-er movie than they can. Bullshit. Canadians can hack out more awful exploitation flicks per capita than any country. Take a significant brain drain to greener American pastures, add some enforced cultural protectionism, and you’ve got a formula for halfassed films by mediocre talent that live forever on late-night Canadian TV.

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Recycling of the highest order

img_0557We went to a surprise birthday party last night. As there is no such thing as a successful surprise party without little hats, balloons, and those things you blow into that screech and unroll, our friend Pegah went to a pound shop in Dalston, well, actually a 98p shop, to stock up. It turns out that 98p shops employ the most resourceful recyclers in the world. Read more »