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		<title>Film:  Insomnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insomnia (1997) is a creepy Norwegian police procedural set in a small town above the Arctic Circle.  A pair of Swedish cops, Jonas Engstrom and Erik Vik (Stellan Skarsgard and Sverre Anker Ousdal) travel to the remote town to assist in the murder investigation of a young girl.  In the course of their search for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2791</link>
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		<title>Novel:  The Dervish House by Ian McDonald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian McDonald has been working his way up my list of favorite SF writers over the past few years, and The Dervish House (2010) just brought him that much closer to the top.  Both in the impressive Brasyl and the spectacular River of Gods, McDonald has proven himself to be one of the field’s most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2781</link>
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		<title>Futurismic Fiction for September:  &#8220;In Pacmandu&#8221; by Lavie Tidhar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me how often the first day of a new month surprises me.  Here we are in September already, which means new fiction at Futurismic:  this month, the always inventive Lavie Tidhar provides us with &#8220;In Pacmandu,&#8221; which may raise a few eyebrows at first &#8212; but by all means, keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2777</link>
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		<title>Spy 100, #65:  The Lady Vanishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lady Vanishes (1938) is one of nine Alfred Hitchcock films on the list &#8212; and based on some its weaker selections, there probably should have been more.  Like most Hitchcock adventures, this one mixes healthy doses of humor in with the suspense, and for the most part it&#8217;s an enjoyable romp &#8212; structurally messy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2769</link>
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		<title>A Weekend of Milestones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year my M.O. for vacation time has consisted of scheduling it out piecemeal into various four-day &#8220;staycation&#8221; weekends that give me a chance to get away from the office and recharge my batteries &#8212; in the company of my favorite person and my two favorite cats, of course!  Since home is my favorite place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2755</link>
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		<title>Spy 100, #67:  The Eiger Sanction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mountain-climbing film dressed up in spy clothes, The Eiger Sanction (1975) is one of those oddball selections the list seems to include now and then just to stir up conversation.  How this one ever crept so far up the list is beyond me, though; it&#8217;s not a very good film.
Clint Eastwood stars as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2747</link>
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		<title>TV:  Chuck  (Season Two)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched Chuck with half an eye during its first season, liking it without quite loving it.  Its premise is ridiculous spy fantasy camp:  an immense database of intelligence data is downloaded into the mind of an aimless college dropout named Chuck Bartowksi (Zachary Levi).  Chuck, squandering his potential working at an electronics superstore, instantly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2733</link>
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		<title>Film:  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with Inception, I&#8217;m tempted to open this review of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) with a spoiler alert &#8212; or maybe just an &#8220;expectation prevention warning.&#8221;  I entered the theater with no foreknowledge, except that it was based on a comic book and starred Michael Cera.  The film surprised me in all sorts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2724</link>
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		<title>Miscellaneous Debris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up in the middle of the night with a Cairo-scratch on one arm and my mind roiling with a weird kind of negative writing energy &#8212; cool ideas gestating, but also a nagging dread about my ability to realize them.  When my mind starts churning like that, there&#8217;s no sense trying to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2712</link>
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		<title>Film:  Salt</title>
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And now, a belated review of Salt (2010), which I saw last weekend at the Arclight.  Salt is an all-too-plausible cautionary tale about the dangers of&#8230;no, wait, it&#8217;s a preposterous action vehicle for Angelina Jolie.  But it&#8217;s not without its silly charms.
Salt is a rather odd film:  a campy 1960s spy-fi premise wrapped up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christopher-east.com/?p=2705</link>
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