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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Holmes</title>
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		<title>About Tweeting Time!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/cannes2009/about-tweeting-time.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can now follow editor Matt Holmes, co-owner and web maestro Peter Willis and our very own Hellboy Simon Gallagher on Obsessed With Film's official twitter page! 

All three of us have access to the account and will be updating our twitter page frequently. 

Simon himself will be twittering from Cannes, so to find his initial, knee jerk reaction to the movies playing and what it's like living down in France for two weeks, make sure you follow us. We might also run a few exclusives there from time to time (comps, etc.), so it's worth a bookmark. Three links enough by now, do you get the message?

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		<title>Getting out early</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my favourite Alfred Hitchcock movies that first introduced me to the idea of "getting out early", namely the bleak ending of Vertigo and the fun and sexy ending of North by Northwest. I was reminded that I enjoyed this little used cinematic practise when I re-watched Ghost Town again last week, the ending of which I called in my 26.10.08 review a last line that would leave you "grinning all the way back home".



It's effect on me is quite great. Simply put, it's a technique where the movie you are watching ends suddenly, almost without warning. For a moment, you are genuinely surprised to see the credits roll but within a millisecond you realise it was exactly the right thing to do, as everything that had to be said had already been said, usually from a character who has just delivered a killer punch line.

Ya know, the kind of ones novels have used for decades now (my favourite being Casino Royale's, "the bitch is dead").

Getting out early means there's no camera panning back as our lead drives off into the sunset, instead it just ends. "LIGHTS UP, please leave the theatre".



Getting out early leaves you a little hungry, and fuels the imagination as ...]]></description>
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		<title>If you have ever loved STAR TREK, read this!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Star Trek opening in the U.K. at midnight tonight and spreading wide from tomorrow, Bruce Greenwood's Captain Christopher Pike looks down on a cocky James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and tells him "Your father was a Starship Captain for 12 minutes, he saved 800 lives. I dare you to do better". You know, that awesome line of dialogue which seriously runs against "FIRE EVERYTHING" and "James T. Kirk was a great man, but that was another life" as the money-making lines, the ones which you find yourself remembering and reciting for days. 

Well imagine me as Bruce Greenwood. "Watchmen, the most faithful comic book adaptation of all time, the one YOU were clamouring to be made for years made only $182 million worldwide on a budget of $150 million from those of you who could be bothered to see the movie. I DARE YOU TO DO BETTER WITH STAR TREK!". 



Despite how mainstream Star Trek looks and how much promotion they are giving it, the film still needs your help folks. You have been with us for the three years this film has been in production. Obsessed With Film has followed this project since J.J. Abrams' first annoucement as the producer, the first sign of ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can I say no to such an invite?



I've kept the details of the High-Def Blu-Ray screening secret, in case I'm not suppose to leak it. 

It's all in support of the Blu-Ray release of the first Ghost Busters, probably the movie I have watched more than any other in my lifetime. A movie where every beat, every line of dialogue, every camera movement reminds me of my childhood. It will be like spending time with very old friends, I can't wait to see this. ]]></description>
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		<title>Final Shot: THE SHINING</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final shot of The Shining, it's ambiguity forever helping Kubrick's most popular film carry on it's enduring legacy for nearly thirty years. 

The final shot is a photograph of our lead protagonist Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson), impossibly photographed as a resident of the Overlook Hotel at the July 4th ball in 1921, some sixty years before The Shining is set where Jack is now the caretaker of the hotel during a winter break. 

I say impossible because he hasn't aged a day, the photograph shows that barring time travel, he must have existed six decades ago looking physically exactly the same as he did in the early 80's. What does this final image of the film mean, why did Stanley Kubrick choose to use it as his final shot and what do you guys make of it?



Is Jack simply reincarnated by the hotel to undergoe it's bidding, taking the form of a previous hotel guest who stayed there in 1921 and butchered his family, the hotel re-creating the same events that happened in previous years for generation after generation?

That's probably the theory that I have stuck closely to over the years during the many times I've seen the film, supported quite logically ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bored of it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know about you, but personally I'm bored of hearing about what certain directors are going to do and then not seeing them actually shoot or do anything, but more talk, followed by more talk, followed by more indecision. I'm certain some of the things this guy has talked about in the past, he absolutely has no intention of ever making. 

Stop talking and make movies. Actions speak louder than words. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Cannes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cannes doesn't seem like it's going to be a laugh-a-second festival this year, and there's nothing like last year's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to provide some light, relaxing entertainment. With rumors of marketing downsizing and some referring to it as the Cannes Crunch, with fewer big deals expected, I would predict the mood to be quite somber, on and off the screen.

And before you say it, don't be fooled by the opening night celebration of Pixar's animated movie Up (which I think won't be as light as it looks, and given Pixar's recent track record, will get some teary eyed come the third act), there's several horror and dark psychological movies at play here that are likely to be the cold black cloud hanging over the beautifully sunny resort.



I must admit to being a little saddened this morning when the sucker punch finally hit that I won't be seeing Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, a movie I have dreamed of seeing for about ten years. I know I made the right choice though it not attending when the Cannes press only offered us one pass for the two week gig.

OWF's Simon Gallagher is a superb writer, his ...]]></description>
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		<title>TURTLES Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holmes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 years ago today, the big green heroes in a half shell, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were born in comic book form. Mirage Entertainment believe it's the right time to confirm previous speculations that a new live action movie is in the works, due out in 2011. 



That's the same year a new Ghostbusters movie is due, which is also celebrating it's 25th year anniversary.

The new Turtles movie will be a Batman Begins style origin movie, a dark and gritty yarn which harpens back to how the comic was originally perceived. The trades hint that face replacement technology will be used, which suggests men in suits for the body, which is a good thing. 

Speaking of the movie going back to it's origins. I kind of remember that first Turtles movie back in 1990 being quite dark in itself, the Gotham esque city being one of the scariest places to live on film. 
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		<title>Sci-Fi nirvana</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/sci-fi-nirvana.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved “Star Trek” will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana", says Todd McCarthy in Variety's review of Star Trek which went live Wednesday at 2.17am PT. 



"Faithful enough to the spirit and key particulars of Gene Roddenberry’s original conception to keep its torchbearers happy but, more crucially, exciting on its own terms in a way that makes familiarity with the franchise irrelevant, J.J. Abrams’ smart and breathless space adventure feels like a summer blockbuster that just couldn’t stay in the box another month. Paramount won’t need any economic stimulus package with all the money it’ll rake in with this one globally, and a follow-up won’t arrive soon enough".

McCarthy compares the reboot to being as successful as Casino Royale, when Daniel Craig went back to the origins of 007 a few years back.

Star Trek opens May 8th worldwide, and director/producer J.J. Abrams was correct to screen the movie way early for critics and lucky fans alike. The buzz has been amazing so far, and it needed to be to make it's money back. Now I'm not as cock-sure as Todd McCarthy that it's a shoe-in to make it's ...]]></description>
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		<title>Burn out or fade away?</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/jack-nicholson/burn-out-or-fade-away.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 72nd birthday Jack Nicholson. Now where the hell have you been the last two years? 

As Jeff Wells points out, Jack's last movie was The Bucket List in late 2007, a movie I viciously crapped all over because it unforgivably took a potentially crowd pleasing and genuinely heart warming premise and turned it into a cold movie with no soul or emotional resonance. A movie that you might stumble across as a matinee telefilm with veteran t.v. actors, watch for 5 minutes then switch the channel. 



Such a waste when you had A-listers Nicholson and Morgan Freeman on screen for the first time together.

I think I called it the worst movie of that year and with no upcoming projects on the horizon for Jack, I would hate for The Bucket List to be the last song and dance for one of the biggest screen icons of the latter half of the 20th century. Hopefully a good role will come his way soon.



Unlike many leading men of his generation, Nicholson is still a major star and when he is in a movie, people sit up and take notice. More so than Al Pacino or Robert De Niro, Jack still carries with him an amazing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bargain DVDs in a recession</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/holmes/bargain-dvds-in-a-recession.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[£40 odd quid on bargain DVDs, during a recession no less? Well you can't say I didn't get my money's worth but I can't keep going into HMV and spending this kind of money!



I picked up a Roman Polanski Paris set thriller Frantic starring Harrison Ford which I hadn't seen, and I'm pleased to find out has a Ennio Morricone score.

She's Having A Baby, because I'm going through something of a John Hughes phase right now, The Postman Always Rings Twice (the reason David Carradine has a thing for blondes in Kill Bill, seal enough of approval I thinks), The Majestic (one of Carrey's best, and one that shows the true love of going to the cinema) and a double box set of the comfy rom-com classics Three Men and a Baby and it's sequel Three Men And A Little Lady. 

On the second row, we have Marlon Brando in Mutiny in the Bounty, a movie I haven't seen but I like me some seafaring adventures. The awesome Shaun of the Dead which I can't believe I don't own already. Robert Wise's The Haunting which I've never seen, Rob Zombie's Halloween which I'm curious to see again and Little Caesar starring ...]]></description>
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		<title>A shift in writing style</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time really flies doesn't it? I've been doing this movie writing gig for coming up to three years in July and I've hardly changed my writing style, or the way I have reported on news. Changed the website design more times than I've changed the tires in my car but I've never changed much about what I write and how I write it. 

But I think that's all about to change.





Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed that we have been promoting ourselves as less of a blog or a website but more of an online film magazine and I have done my best to encourage our writers to come up with more feature length material than ever before. Simon and Gareth have done a great job keeping up Top Ten Lists, and I look forward to seeing more from them in the future. Our Movie Castaway has been a success and I'm so thankful for the guests that have agreed to feature on it (we are looking to make that feature into video format very soon, which will be great). 

We are being invited to more and more screenings and we probably have more film writers right now than ...]]></description>
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		<title>ECLIPSE his predecessors?</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/eclipse-his-predecessors.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David-Slade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now there's a choice that shows the Twilight film series might become something a little less passable for me in the future. Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily claims that David Slade, director of Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night has met with author Stephenie Meyer and the producers behind the third Twilight movie Eclipse. 

No deal is signed yet.

But we do know that the producers have also met with Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage). I'm liking their desire to hire someone with a distinctive individual voice, and not a paint by numbers helmer like Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) who is making New Moon, a movie I certainly won't be seeing. ]]></description>
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		<title>Earning the endgame</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/jj-abrams/earning-the-endgame.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the great magicians know it. The reason they never show you how a trick is so smartly performed right under your nose is not completely because it will show them up to be a fraud, a con-merchant, a fake or that it will reveal their secrets so they can never perform that trick again (though that clearly plays a big part of it). Part of the secrecy is that deep down, we simply don't want to know, really. Because we will never get that excitement of not knowing back. 

Once we know how a trick is performed, that's it. Pack up and go home, life wouldn't be worth living. Ask Quentin Tarantino. No matter what was in that briefcase in Pulp Fiction (unless it was the Elvis costume from True Romance, because that would be pretty sweet), it will never live up to not knowing what is in that briefcase. Our expectations are simply too high.



Lost creator J.J. Abrams, the ultimate promoter of the importance of mystery in fiction has a great article from the special mystery edition of Wired Magazine now online which I enjoyed reading this morning...


"True understanding (or skill or effort) has become bothersome—an unnecessary headache that impedes ...]]></description>
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		<title>Whilst we were Waiting for Godot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Catching some fresh air at 7.02pm on Grey Street, outside the Theatre Royal in Newcastle just 28 minutes before I see two of my long time heroes Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on stage together when I do a double take, as a familiar face walks by. 

"It's that guy!" I proclaim to the person I was with, raking my brain as to whether I knew the guy personally or whether he is an actor. She says "yeah, yeah... here's really famous". So after a little bit of stalking, we work out it's character actor Simon Callow, who I remember best as the drunk scotsman whose death is the funeral reference in the title of Four Weddings and a Funeral. 

I text Simon the news, he tells me he is a Sir. Not actually true, he's a CBE. We got a photo snapped as Callow started to bring some attention outside of the theatre.



I hadn't realised he was in the play too (I thought it was just a two man show) and I was delighted to know another face in the production. Nice chap too. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It was MURDER, Sam!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the nostalgia for University life. Mid-afternoons watching 70's tele-drama Quincy M.E., whose every patient (are they actually patients, when they are dead?) turned out to be murder, an unsolved case for Jack Klugman to crack. How often this happens in real life I couldn't say but Quincy (148 episodes) the medical examiner solved twice as many cases as Columbo (69 episodes).



Seriously though, I could never understand the point in making a crime show, that wasn't revolved around a detective. The basic premise of the show was somebody dies by apparantely natural causes, Quincy notices a minute detail and suspects foul play. Quincy suddenly becomes a detective and tries to solve the murder but finds himself blocked by authority (usually his boss or the local cops), he ignores them and gets angry, then solves the case. 

It was a detective show in every way.

So today I hear Angelina Jolie is adding another franchise to her blockbuster heavy bedpost as Fox 2000 are setting her up to play medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who has somehow filled 16 popular crime novels from Patricia Cornwell.





The idea is not to adapt each book but to adapt the character and situations from the franchise, which ...]]></description>
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		<title>TONIGHT: Professor X and Magneto!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/ian-mckellen/tonight-professor-x-and-magneto.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Tonight, two of my heroes on stage together, before my very own eyes. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, Professor X and Magneto. 

I bought the tickets not knowing or even caring what the play Waiting for Godot was about. What does it matter really?



The production is the first time the two much compared great friends have worked on stage together since 1977. They of course starred together in X-Men, but seeing them both perform on stage, live, well I just can't wait. 

I'm a huge Star Trek fan, the person I'm seeing it with is a huge Lord of the Rings fan. And we both like X-Men, so this couldn't have been more perfect.
 ]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery Issue of Wired</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/abrams/the-mystery-issue-of-wired.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

I've spoken before on the importance of mystery in film and why it's so vital for Hollywood screenwriters to only ever give us just the right amount of information we need to figure out a story on our own, because usually our own imaginations are so much more satisfying than the ones Hollywood give us.

Which is why time and time again I point to the failures of any movie prequel that reveals too much about something that was unknown to us in the past, because it will just simply never live up to the scenario in our head.

Obviously it's easy to point out the Star Wars prequels and I dearly hope the new Star Trek doesn't do the same, ironically directed by J.J. Abrams who in the past I've lauded because of his ability to keep mystery as being important. And often, maybe too important in some episodes of Lost.

Anyway, previously we posted his great lecture about the "mystery box" his grandfather gave him when he was young and now it looks like he has written something similar in print format for the special mystery issue of Wired Magazine. 

Which I would say is a must read. ]]></description>
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		<title>Beating the flashing cursor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my favourite Stephen King novel Bag of Bones, fictional crime writer Mike Noonan suffers from such an intense writer's block that when he enters the room housing his computer screen, his stomach churns so violently with fear that he can only crawl pathetically to his desk and barely manages to turn on his word processor without dying from suffocation. 

But once it's turned on, he still can't write anything. Not a damn word. It almost killed him just thinking about writing, let alone actually doing it. 




 

I've suffered from a form of that this weekend.

For a while on Saturday night, I was petrified by my macbook. I literally wanted to smash it into a hundred pieces for the way it would stare at me, with it's constant flashing white dot telling me it was asleep, but not really asleep, just bored that I had nothing to say. At one point and I'm not stretching the truth here... I had to hide it away in my big wardrobe and watch Taxi Driver really loud on my tv, just to try and stop that flashing white dot from making my life a living hell (there's no bigger picture in choosing Taxi Driver, I was just in the mood ...]]></description>
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		<title>TONIGHT: Letting the Right One In!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I've convinced a few Twilight fanatics I know to come with me and see Let the Right One In at my local theatre. It wasn't particularly hard, they had a vague interest in seeing it in the first place thanks to the universal praise (and rightfully so) the movie has recieved in the U.K. press this month, but also because that Twilight series has brought back a fascination with vampires.



A fascination that for people like me, who was around for the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who saw Near Dark on VHS at an all too early age, who spent many nights wondering about the pscyhology of Lestat the Vampire after Tom Cruise's amazing performance in Interview with the Vampire.

Man... for a dude who saw The Lost Boys about five times during one horror filled twelve month video binge year in 1997. And that's not to mention Dracula, I Am Legend, Stephen King's novels etc, etc. This is nothing new, the vampire genre has taken up just as many horrors of my reading and viewing life as comic book and superhero's have. 

But even with that, even with the countless number of vampire re-tellings I had seen, Let the ...]]></description>
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