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What you may need to know:

1. Gangster Squad is the first Hollywood movie directly affected by the Aurora massacre.

2. This trailer was originally meant to be playing in front of The Dark Knight begins. Now the trailer’s been pulled, and the movie is being re-edited.

3. Why? A sequence that occurs round the 2’00 mark in the trailer is now being removed from the movie, on the ground of sensitivity.

4. To accommodate re-shoots, it’s been delayed until January of next year.

5. It happened before – they took the Twin Towers out of Zoolander (2001) after 9/11. Seriously.

6. Question: would Quentin Tarantino get away with the ending of Inglorious Basterds now? We think not.

Release Date (Ireland): Early 2013

Gangster Squad (IMDB)

DéiseDee writes:

As a former teacher who now works full time in dog welfare, I am disgusted and appalled at Irish Greyhound Board’s poster encouraging schools to do tours of Greyhound Stadiums.I see every day the results of an industry that uses these beautiful dogs as a commodity; dumping and often killing greyhounds that no
longer make money for their owners.

However, putting that aside, why are the IGB allowed to encourage schoolchildren to become the gamblers of tomorrow? Cigarettes and alcohol come with warnings and age restrictions, yet gambling can be freely promoted to underage children?

Given that Gamblers Anonymous now says that gambling addiction is at an all-time high in Ireland, I think this campaign is totally reprehensible. Schools should think of their student’s welfare and completely boycott this attempt to line the pockets of the IGB with blood money.

School Trips (Irish Greyhound Board)

CARTOONS SHOWING the dry, quirky humour of painter Jack B Yeats will go on public display for the first time on Saturday.

The 56 illustrations by the Irish artist are part of 500 published in British satirical magazine Punch under his pseudonym, W Bird, between 1910 and 1948.

Pft. He’s no Martyn Turner.

Satire about social class, professions, everyday life and political commentary are among the subjects tackled by Yeats, co-curator (at the National Gallery of Ireland) Donal Maguire said. Many of the illustrations “don’t fit with the current humour and are very much of their time”, he added.

Oh wait now.

Jack B Yeats cartoons to go on show for first time (Genevieve Carberry, Irish Times)

Image: Irish Comics Wiki

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