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Elite Squad ~ tense thriller from Brazil about a special unit of the police battling the drug gangs that rule the many slums in Rio. Followed by a sequel that I need to check out. :stars4:

RIP John Christopher Writer of many great PA books, such as No Blade of Grass and A Wrinkle in the Skin, but most well known for his Tripod series which I was in the middle of reading when I discovered he had died back in early Feb. John Christopher obituary | Books | The Guardian...

Looks like their keeping the illustrations for the pricey Grant edition.

Nice, thanks for the early review. Can't wait for this.

Someone's not a team player.

Neato! Abandoned Places In The World

Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture byDaniel H. Magilow (Editor), Elizabeth Bridges (Editor), Kristin T. Vander Lugt (Editor) ~ various essays on the most repugnant genre of exploitation film.

April 1st!

The Grey ~ bit of mismarketing on this one, they're selling it as an action pic but what you get is a grim story of survival and death in an unforgiving arctic wilderness. Pretty good, but I could've done without the cgi wolves, and the whole time I kept thinking how I would've loved to have...

Just finished The Witch of Hebron by James Howard Kunstler and thought it was as good as the first book in the series, World Made By Hand. If you enjoyed that one, you should check it out. My only quibble is with the introduction of some supernatural elements to story, but otherwise a good read.

No Human Centipede 2 noms? wtf?

Haywire ~ Soderbergh does a Bourne film with a female protag. :stars3:

Finally got to see the film version this week, really enjoyed it. McKee really built the tension up to when you just know all hell is going to break loose at the end. The guy that played the dad was very good. :stars4:

The Robber ~ based on a true story about an Austrian world class marathoner who had a side hobby as a bank robber back in the 80's. There's one great sequence in this where he's robbing a bank, the teller spills most of the cash out, so what does he do instead of gathering it up? He sprints 2...