Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005)

Review: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005)

Plot: Sergeant Stripes is a TV series created by David Bonner which aired on CBeebies on Thursday 11 September 2003. Stripes is a cute gray cat who lives in a sleepy provincial police station with little Katie and her father, PC Harker. Both they and pretty Sergeant Parker think Stripes is merely a meowing moggy, but when this little cat slopes off to his bed underneath the stairs for a nap, well, that's when the fun really starts.

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Seeking cinematic truth: two new Criterion Blu-rays

Seeking cinematic truth: two new Criterion Blu-rays

Two new releases from the Criterion Collection showcase very different approaches to filmmaking. Robert Bresson’s Mouchette (1967) and William Greaves’ Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes (1968/2005), although both made during the […]

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