Apart from the inescapable need to carve out a meagre living from an uncaring world, one of the reasons why these weekly updates have been something less than, well, weekly…
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For years I’ve been complaining about films that give audiences everything on a plate - they tell what you should be thinking and feeling, leaving no room for us. This…
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This past week may have been the most consistently satisfying week of cinema-going since I started this journey with you back in 2006: seven very different films, all with something…
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You can forget all talk of an Oscar for Heath Ledger's Joker. If anyone is going to win an Academy Award for wearing some dodgy make-up in a noisy blockbuster…
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Many years ago English comedian Ben Elton cracked a joke about Bob Dylan: "For all you young people in the audience he was the one who couldn't sing on the…
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This week's Capital Times film review: Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon & Will Speck); Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards); Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story); Paris je…
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