With this year's festival now a rapidly diminishing memory - and my recovery from that event (plus another magazine published, some "live" podcast recordings, a few Q&A's, some director interviews…
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It’s the fifth anniversary of my first column for this paper - my, how time flies. Five years of searching - usually in vain - for some transcendence among the…
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Anther snapshot of Western culture this week in cinemas - if the aliens who monitor us are still watching I’m sure this will result in our urgent and violent annihilation…
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Most films go in one eye and out the other but some stick in your brain and won’t leave – for better or worse. John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s…
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Strange as it may seem but reviewers are people too and, like the rest of you ordinary folk, we have blind spots and mine is horror. Back when I was…
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This week's Capital Times film review, illustrated and uncut: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach); Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater); Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener); The Grudge 2…
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