February 2007

Review: Letters from Iwo Jima and five more ...

by Dan on February 28, 2007

in Cinema and Reviews

Letters from iwo Jima poster

This week’s Capital Times film review, illustrated with gorgeous movie posters.

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Review: For Your Consideration and four more ...

by Dan on February 21, 2007

in Cinema and Reviews

For Your Consideration poster

There was a time when a new improv comedy from Christopher Guest and his regular cast of inspired comics would be eagerly awaited but as time goes by the returns are proving meager. For Your Consideration could have been the cream of the crop — after all Hollywood, the subject matter, is closest to the …

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Review: Rocky Balboa and more ...

by Dan on February 14, 2007

in Cinema and Reviews

Rocky Balboa poster

This week’s Capital Times film review, illustrated and linked up the wazoo: ROCKY BALBOA (Syvester Stallone); A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Robert Altman); HOLLYWOODLAND (Allen Coulter); SQUEEGEE BANDIT (Sándor Lau); STRANGER THAN FICTION (Marc Forster) and THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (Kevin Macdonald)

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Unbelievable frustration - semi self-inflicted

by Dan on February 5, 2007

in meta and The Net

“What did you do with your Waitangi long weekend, Uncle Daniel?” Well, nieces and nephews, I spent most of my weekend sitting in front of the computer because Old Grandpa Davies from Auckland wanted a shop for his web site and (me being me) I thought that would be a good opportunity to fix a …

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Eagle vs. Shark clip

by Dan on February 3, 2007

in Cinema and NZ

Devil Dared Me To

… can be found here. Warning: Music from The Phoenix Foundation plays on this page and there doesn’t seem to be a way of turning it off. Grrr. Also, the first reviews from Sundance have started to appear. On a related matter, the trailer for Black Sheep was playing ahead of Rocky Balboa on Thursday […]

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