Tag: movie
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Just Leaving This Here
Click or not: Just Leaving This HereThe prophecies of Howard Beale, the only newscaster we should ever have listened to, yet sadly ignored for the last 40 years. A brilliant, poignant scene from Network, 1976, with Peter Finch on form. …
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Scene: Quicksilver
Click or not: Scene: QuicksilverIn which everyone’s favourite 80s heartthrob gets footloose as fuck on a freewheeling fixie and foils a frustrated malefactor in a fast-paced flurry. …
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Sven: The Final Year
Click or not: Sven: The Final YearLegends of cycling are often touted, yet rarely canonised. Promise, talent and prodigiousness count for little without longevity, consistency and results. Sven Nys fits the bill to the letter. The Merckx Of The Mud has been winning for more years than most of his rivals have been alive, but as with all legends, they must… …
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Dig, Then Hate, Then Dig Again
Click or not: Dig, Then Hate, Then Dig AgainWhen I was a kid I didn’t much care for the taste of broccoli, or prawns. I remember my mother taking me across the street one day to visit Mr and Mrs Moody, where old Fred was proudly handing out freshly caught and cooked prawns. I put one in my mouth and instantaneously felt like I’d… …
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Friday Film Fest
Click or not: Friday Film FestIf you’re stuck inside tonight due to a lack of solvency, a dearth of motivation to leave the house, or just want to watch some classic cycling movies, we’ve got you covered. Or if the weekend needs some filling in, watch the lot! First up is the documentary following the 1973 Giro d’Italia, Stars and… …
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Darkness: The Movie
Click or not: Darkness: The MovieThese guys shift massive quantities of dirt from one place to another then leap off them so we don’t have to, but we were never going to dabble in that anyway, were we? In an age where professional bicycle jumpers must turn themselves into human helicopters to stay relevant, airborne bikes and bodies flailing furiously… …
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Revisited: ChainSmoke
Click or not: Revisited: ChainSmokeThat’s Smoke, not Slap. We thought about calling the site that, but the amount of posts on smoking we could do would be pretty limited. And we might forget things, like we did with this old gem of a mountain bike video. This was a game-changer in the ‘edit’ world, when feature-length was king and… …