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THE YES OR NO GUIDE TO THE MONTH AHEAD
FILM The Hunger Games It’s Battle Royale but American but good.
TV Mad Men Not that we don’t love it – we’re just bitter we didn’t get an advance review copy.
FESTIVALS EIFF, EIF and Fringe New programme announcements already have us salivating for summer.
FILM Iron Sky Who knew ‘Nazis in space’ was a concept that could fail?
THEATRE Betrayal Adultery . . . Menace . . . Pauses. S’Pinter, innit?
TV Once Upon a Time Vapid contemporary fairytales are a Lost cause.
MUSIC Florence and the Machine The line ‘Adele who?’ doesn’t really work without a surname, but we’ll say it anyway.
PRANKS April Fools’ Day We’re still not over that childhood ‘fake divorce’ gag, Mum.
WeLike The things making our world just that little bit better
■ This month, we’ve been listening to the Ellie and Oliver Show (ellieand oliver.co.uk) for our Friday lunchtime art fix and been looking at plenty of cute little critters in YouTube extracts from the documentary Meet the Sloths by filmmaker Lucy Cooke. For a slightly higher brow video
experience, there’s Solipsist by Andrew Huang (andrewthomashuang.com) – ten minutes of incredible colours and cool visuals, and a person who turns into sand, of course. Many a lunch break was
also spent chuckling at leasthelpful.com, poking fun at
wallies who leave really awful (and often factually messed up) reviews on Amazon, and clientsfromhell.net, a must for anyone who’s ever wanted to smack a customer across the back of the heid. Femme shout outs to annfriedman.com for her International Women’s Day
tribute
in gifs and Linda Grant’s athousand reasons.com, which made us feel a bit better after watching the perplexing Sasha Grey ad for Belgium’s Equal Pay Day. If you don’t know who she is, Google with safe search on, y’all . . . Also confusing was the PETA’s Boyfriend Went Vegan advert. Nothing says love like a neck brace? Not drinking milk makes you like Sting in bed? And, if so, how does poor Trudy cope day to day? Goodness.
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128 THE LIST 29 Mar–26 Apr 2012