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Post by olliebean on Apr 29, 2020 10:48:50 GMT
Hampstead Theatre has #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei up until Sunday:
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Post by olliebean on Apr 24, 2020 16:53:59 GMT
The videos in this twitter thread certainly cheered me up:
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Post by olliebean on Apr 18, 2020 18:22:01 GMT
FWIW, you can still rent it for £3.49 (from YouTube, Amazon, Google, and presumably iTunes as well).
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Post by olliebean on Apr 18, 2020 16:24:54 GMT
And indeed still on YouTube for the rest of the weekend (for anyone without Sky Arts). I thought it said this was only available for 24 hours in the UK, rather than the usual 48? Oops, you're right. I just assumed it was the same as the first two. Not enough time to watch it if you haven't started yet, then.
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Post by olliebean on Apr 18, 2020 13:27:32 GMT
For anyone who missed it, it's on Sky Arts on Sunday, 5.15 pm. And indeed still on YouTube for the rest of the weekend (for anyone without Sky Arts).
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Post by olliebean on Apr 13, 2020 6:37:22 GMT
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Post by olliebean on Apr 8, 2020 22:33:17 GMT
I've met a few queens, but never the Queen.
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Post by olliebean on Apr 8, 2020 22:29:16 GMT
Macavity does kidnap Old Deuteronomy in the show, doesn't he? But we don't see where he's taken him, and he doesn't kidnap any other cats.
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Post by olliebean on Apr 5, 2020 8:51:01 GMT
The (illegitimate) copy of Song & Dance on YouTube is a very low quality transfer, and I'd love to see a better one, so I really hope Sir Andrew has that up his sleeve.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 28, 2020 18:42:28 GMT
Hampstead Theatre have I and You free to watch until Sunday, then from next Monday there's Wild for a week, followed by Wonderland and then Drawing the Line. www.hampsteadtheatre.com/
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Post by olliebean on Mar 28, 2020 0:04:30 GMT
High School Musical is episode 10 of the first (and so far only) season.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 28, 2020 0:01:40 GMT
The Hugh Jackman/Maureen Lipman version of Oklahoma! is free to watch this weekend on Broadway HD, no login required.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 27, 2020 17:48:08 GMT
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Post by olliebean on Mar 24, 2020 19:55:42 GMT
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Post by olliebean on Mar 24, 2020 11:21:29 GMT
My local Vue recently reduced it's ticket prices to £5.99, and I usually go with a friend on a Meerkat Movies pass so that's three quid each, so £15.99 for a rental to watch on my own at home really isn't going to do it for me, even if they release something I would've gone to the cinema for, which they haven't yet.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 23, 2020 23:39:28 GMT
Not sure how the 80% works but I hope it doesn't mean someone on £1 million a year is guaranteed £800,000 and someone on £10,000 is guaranteed £8,000! Limited to £2500/month, I believe.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 20, 2020 9:00:34 GMT
You are entitled to claim a refund, if not they are in breach of their T&C's para.7.3, which I quoted a few posts back. Unfortunately their T&C's don't obligate them to make sure people are aware of this. Thank you, how do you go about claiming a refund? Wait from them to email or contact them first? Here's paragraph 7.6: So I wouldn't hang around. Unfortunately I can't find any information on their website regarding exactly how to go about claiming a refund in these circumstances. I presume they just send out vouchers to everyone and hope most people will accept those, or assume those are the only option, and not ask for refunds.
<edit> to add to this, if the ticket has yet to be delivered or collected, I would be inclined to challenge the non-refund of the collection or delivery fee.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 20, 2020 8:01:05 GMT
You are entitled to claim a refund, if not they are in breach of their T&C's para.7.3, which I quoted a few posts back. Unfortunately their T&C's don't obligate them to make sure people are aware of this.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 20, 2020 7:54:15 GMT
I quoted this, from their T&C's, in the ATG thread, and it bears quoting again here:
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Post by olliebean on Mar 20, 2020 7:45:50 GMT
Other people just see them behaving normally. What Zoey sees and hears is what's going on in their minds. But the conversation stops while the singing is going on. So when the singing is happening, is time paused for everyone else? Because otherwise there would be a huge gap in the conversation while the song is going on... I think they mentioned at one point that sometimes the songs happen in real time, whilst other times they happen in an instant. I'm trying to like this but I'm finding it hard to get past how obviously influenced it is by the much better Crazy Ex Girlfriend.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 19, 2020 12:12:10 GMT
The important phrase there is "as typical with heavy cg shows." Somewhere in Hollywood there's a vault full of inadvertent cg butthole shots.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 19, 2020 7:24:15 GMT
Knowing ATG, it's probs just complete IT systems general hopelessness rather than deliberate profiteering! Semi related, just came across this: www.atgtickets.com/coronavirus-info/Seems to imply they will only be offering exchanges for vouchers and not refunds? I think I'd prefer a refund for most stuff TBF. Their T&C's state otherwise:
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Post by olliebean on Mar 18, 2020 15:20:51 GMT
I note that their T&C's say they may offer a voucher in lieu - not that you have to accept it. Glad they're giving refunds if asked, but I daresay lots of people will just take the voucher on the assumption that's the only option. They should really make it clear in the email that it isn't.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 16, 2020 8:43:58 GMT
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Post by olliebean on Mar 15, 2020 20:15:32 GMT
Actually it appears you can only play music on shuffle on Spotify in the free version, so I was wrong on that. Not going to work on a musical (although that’s how I listened to Love Never Dies first and only realised at the end...) Still, most streaming services have cast albums and is still the easiest way to do this. To be clear, this restriction only applies to smartphones - you can listen to albums and playlists in the correct order (with ads) in the free version on tablets, in the desktop app, or at play.spotify.com in your desktop browser.
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Post by olliebean on Mar 3, 2020 10:01:04 GMT
I'd love to know what boneheaded reasoning is behind the decision (probably by the rights holders rather than Netflix) to not allow UK viewers to see any of the Untucked episodes until the season is over. It seems bizarre that a deal to show the main programme week-by-week, if it includes Untucked at all, wouldn't allow the release of that week-by-week as well. And it appears from their social media posts that up until a couple of weeks ago, Netflix were under the impression that it would. I wonder what changed since last year.
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Post by olliebean on Feb 12, 2020 7:50:29 GMT
Well, that sounds like they're either claiming Cats had the best VFX in the world, which is ridiculous, or just making a poor excuse for half-arsing the VFX.
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Post by olliebean on Feb 6, 2020 23:32:27 GMT
To be honest, the vocals on the album don't sound studio-recorded to me, so I assumed they were the same on-set-recorded vocals as in the film.
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Post by olliebean on Jan 13, 2020 7:58:51 GMT
Not aware any journey on London Transport is priced at £1.00. I can see a 1/3 discount on a £1.50 bus journey but I thought that only happened with a combo of Oyster/Senior Rail Card. What was your journey? Glouster road -> Blackfriars and Piccadilly -> St Pancras. Maybe they only charge you £1.00, when you don’t change between lines? 😁 Standard price for those journeys, with an Oyster or bank card, is £2.40 off-peak or £3.90 peak.
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Post by olliebean on Jan 12, 2020 8:16:14 GMT
Just watched episode 1. It's ok but very predictable. Wow, was it ever. I don't think there was a single plot development that couldn't be seen coming a mile off. It's watchable enough, though, and the characters are likeable, so I daresay I'll stick with it for a few more episodes at least.
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