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Id Software’s latest groundbreaking game doesn’t ship until Nov 3 this year, but advance screenshots suggest that the revolutionary Doom III game engine will be streets ahead of the competition. Advanced, sophisticated shader scripting combined with per-pixel lightmapping and ultra-high polycount modelling allow a level of realism hitherto unseen in the FPS genre. In the [...]

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Isn’t Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade just the greatest movie ever? I think I must’ve watched it about 10 billion times between the ages of 8 and 13. OK, Raiders is better, but by a strange coincidence I wound up seeing them for the first time in reverse order, and sure it’s about the [...]

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I’ve not kept track of Gibson’s exploits, but a recent comment on an earlier post Mel Gibson For President peeked my interest (should I delete that post now?). A few Google searches later and I’m up to date ) What I find most disturbing is the timing, Mel Gibson is in talks with ABC TV [...]

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Snakes on a Plane does that not sound like a bad B movie

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It’s official. This is the only review you need to read. Kill Bill is fucking cool. Damn fucking cool. Damn fucking hella cool. Damn fucking freaking hella uber cool. Damn fu- well, you get the idea. Although, I can understand how people can hate it. I’m not among their ranks because, like Tarantino (as I’ve [...]

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Reality check: Idol beats leaders’ debates Australian Idol beat the debate between Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Mark Latham in the battle for TV ratings last night. Ratings figures released today show Network Ten’s Australian Idol won the 7.30pm timeslot nationally with 1.98 million viewers, with the debate coming in second with 1.47 [...]

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I recall a few years ago that there was a kerfuffle surrounding this game. Conservative mouth-breathing types were upset at the content, and demanded that it be banned it from sale, citing that it would send kids yearning to carjack hotrods and speed around with no regard for road laws, dropping bullet-riddled gang members and [...]

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from that keystone of journalistic excellence Madonna has been using a medieval-style wooden ‘rack’ to tone her physique – and it’s given her bigger boobs. The Daily Star says she pays £60 an hour for private sessions on the Gyrotonic Expansion System. The newspaper reckons it is responsible for her new muscular look – and [...]

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Cable TV has begun advertising “The Fellowship of the Ring”, which will be starting on one of the movie channels in a few weeks. Just out of curiosity, am I the only person on the planet who found those first two movies to be spectacularly ordinary? When you take on the task of making a [...]

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I have attended so many weddings I loose track of who is getting married next! It’s like that when you run a wedding planner business Seriously though, I’ve attended a LOT of weddings and there’s nothing more embarrassing than one of the toast or speech makers giving a terrible wedding speech or toast: it happens [...]

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