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Quentin Tarantino's latest offering, Inglourious Basterds, is brilliant, although film-critics(!) seem to think there wasn't enough Tarantino in it! Sporting Tarantino's characteristic mix of 70s-inspired music and gratuitous violence, this movie is far more balanced than his more recent Kill Bill and Deathproof, both of which offered up far more blood and sadism than seemed possible. The story is as improbable as ever so don't expect to pick up any historic gems here! Brad Pitt is totally out-acted by Christoph Waltz, although Brad Pitt may be just that good that it seemed that way!. Anyway, the 152 minutes go by quickly and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

The official site is here...

And so yet again Facebook is in the news, or rather a Facebook user is in the news. This week a female juror here in the UK was dismissed after it was found that she had posted details of the ongoing trial on Facebook and asked her friends whether they thought the accused was guilty or not!!

"'More Kenyan goods could sell in the United States and America may invest more in the country where Barack Obama traces his roots', Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Friday" reported the Daily Nation on the 7th of November, 2 days after Barack Obama's win was confirmed.

Thursday 6th November was declared a public holiday in Kenya in honor of his win. As far as I know no other country has done this.

Tags: movies

Bond, James Bond are the words unsaid in the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. Having waited for a week to watch it this movie was largely a disappointment. Although a good action movie, very much like the Bourne films, there has been an 'un-Bonding' - it really could have been just any action movie.

I like Daniel Craig as Bond and Casino Royale blew me away largely because 

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Ah, what a nice way to start a Saturday morning; After a tough week at work, finally a day of rest to kick back, read the paper. So as I open my front door to get my Saturday paper I noticed something yellow and slimy sliding down the front of the door. Looking down I see broken egg-shells. Hey, just what I wanted to do with my Saturday morning; thanks kids.

Now, I don't get this 'festival' - in fact no one does. The origins of Halloween are largely unknown however I'm sure it didn't originally involve blackmailing neighbours to hand over