Christopher Whalen is an English graduate student at Hertford College, Oxford University with an interest in James Joyce and palimpsests. He was born in Scotland but started school in Germany. Read his self-portrait to find out more.
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Movie Review: Punk's Not Dead
How many punk rockers does it take to change a light bulb? None, because punk rockers don't change anything.
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Movie Review: A Prairie Home Companion
Robert Altman bids a folksy farewell to filmmaking with this homage to an American musical variety radio show.
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Movie Review: The History Boys
Delightful film adaptation of Alan Bennett's hit play about preparing a class of exceptionally bright boys for Oxbridge entrance exams.
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Movie Review: Blow-Up
... not quite the blow-me-up-and-away cinema classic I was led to expect.
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Movie Review: Amores perros
Debut feature by director Alejandro González Iñárritu, interlinking three stories about dog owners. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Two Wyoming shepherds' homosexual love affair is frustrated by their own fears of how society will react toward them.
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