This week's Capital Times film review, annotated and illustrated: Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence); Crank (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor); The Nativity Story (Catherine Hardwicke); Unaccompanied Minors (Paul Feig) and Deck The…
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I grew up under the high-heeled jackboot of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, when post-apocalyptic visions of futuristic fascist dictatorships seemed to turn up as regularly as London buses. Back then we…
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This week's Capital Times film review, illustrated, featuring THE DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese); BEYOND THE SEA (Kevin Spacey); THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE (Michael Lembeck) plus extra notes on…
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Films like Kenny are usually called "mockumentaries" for two reasons: they appear to be documentaries but they're not really and (in films like Spinal Tap and TV's "The Office") they…
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This week's Capital Times film review: FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (Clint Eastwood); JACKASS NUMBER 2 (Jeff Tremaine); THE WHITE MASAI (Hermine Huntgeburth) & SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS (Marc Rothemund).
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Found online: An extraordinary piece of animation, screened at Cannes in 2003 but now available on DVD from the filmmaker. And at stuttery old YouTube. Hat-tip to CartoonBrew. The visuals…
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