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Christopher Nolan's epic and ambitious new blockbuster is a fascinating, skillfully-made braintwister that gives Phillip K. Dick a run for his existential money.
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As luck would have it, while typing this article, I've just heard I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Bollocks in My Mouth) on the radio, and the real braintwister is the lyric, in which she yearns for a time "when accountants didn't have control and the media couldn't buy your soul".
The Guardian World News Charlie Brooker 2010
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As luck would have it, while typing this article, I've just heard I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Bollocks in My Mouth) on the radio, and the real braintwister is the lyric, in which she yearns for a time "when accountants didn't have control and the media couldn't buy your soul".
The Guardian World News Charlie Brooker 2010
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In a second braintwister, he glued a red object down and observed that some bowerbirds kept on trying in vain to pull it out, while the brighter ones quickly twigged this was impossible and covered it with leaves.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Other than a certain baseball series (that’s not Major) and a braintwister, I don’t have a definite watchlist as of yet but in the meantime, based purely on the synopses and the looks of them, the titles which sound interesting to me are:
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