I'd like to think of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler as a kind of grand metaphor for America, a bankrupt and exhausted old culture, coasting to the finish line on the…
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Too late to be more than 50% useful to anyone, here's my World Cinema Showcase preview: As summer gives way to autumn, and Daylight Saving Time gently releases its grip…
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You’ll often find me railing against the Hollywood machine in these pages - the lifeless and cynical, the focus-grouped and beta-tested, the bandwagon jumping and the shark jumping - so…
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A friend of mine auditioned for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (produced in Auckland in 2006) and didn't get a part. I was pleased to report to him yesterday that…
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Former Premiere Magazine critic Glenn Kenny has come up with a few notes about Watchmen that say what I was trying to say in my review, only better: A lot…
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