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"I first met Bradford Cox in 2008. I had just gotten into Deerhunter, and we both played the Pitchfork festival that year. I just saw him around backstage and went and talked to him, and we ended up sitting on this ledge, watching people stream out of the festival. We became friends, and he ended up playing with us the next day. And then we took them out for the Transference tour. After Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, I thought Spoon was going to keep going up and up and up—and in terms of selling tickets, it has. I knew Transference was an uglier record that didn’t have as many hits on it, but I still thought everybody that bought Ga Ga Ga was going to buy it. I wasn’t exactly right. I don’t think we failed on that record, but it did turn a lot of people off."

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This Can Never Not Be Real

Sera Milano

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A compelling, heartbreaking and hopeful book for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine,...

Movie Critics (823 KP) rated The Dinner (2017) in Movies

May 4, 2017

The Dinner (2017)

2017 | Drama, Mystery

4.0

(2 Ratings)

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The four-handed set-up (though other characters, and a number of wobbly flashbacks, intrude) may well recall Yasmina Reza’s acrid couple-combat in her play God of Carnage. If you thought that foursome were rotten eggs, get a load of this lot.

Critic-Tim Robey - The Telegraph
Original Score- 3 out of 5

Read Review: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/02/16/berlin-film-festival-dinner-review-steve-coogan-startles-bitter/

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Movie Critics (823 KP) rated City Of Ghosts (2017) in Movies

May 31, 2017

City Of Ghosts (2017)

2017 | Documentary, War

7.7

(3 Ratings)

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The footage is brutal and often hard to watch (the executions are horrifying and the indoctrination of children is plain sinister). The film excels at portraying the danger the reporters face and the value of the information they get out of the country.

Critic- Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Original Score: 4 out of 5

Read Review: http://www.thecanadiancrew.com/reviews/2017/4/29/hot-docs-film-festival-day-3-city-of-ghosts-shiners

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Deborah (162 KP) rated The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer in Books

Dec 19, 2018

I wanted to read this after seeing Kate Summerscale at the Hay Festival talking about the book. I found that I felt very different at the end of the talk to how I felt at the beginning!

A really interesting story and Robert Coombs becomes a real person to the reader across the book.

This would be a good read if you are interested in social history and/or psychology.