Earlier this year I arbitrarily decided that the Hannah Montana 3D concert movie was not cinema and chose not to review it. Now, a few short weeks later, I exercise…
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In past columns this reviewer has pretty much unilaterally labelled 27 year old Ryan Gosling as the new Marlon Brando (thanks to extraordinary performances in Half Nelson and The Believer)…
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day in 1979. They remained in the country, brutally suppressing the local resistance, until they were forced to leave in 1989: almost ten…
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Baltimore in the 60s must have been quite a place as it has inspired films like Barry Levinson's Diner and Tin Men as well as the entire John Waters canon,…
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Returning swiftly from the Festival is The Italian, a lovely and old-fashioned art-house winner about a six year-old Russian orphan played by the wonderful Kolya Spiridonov. He's Vanya, a little…
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Annotated and expanded version of this week’s Capital Times film review: L’enfer; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby; Stick It and American Hardcore.
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