Inventively retro 'Sky Captain' soars into brave new 'World'
From a dazzling, deco pastiche New York City to a frigid Himalayan mine shaft to a tropical island populated by monsters, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" takes moviegoers places they haven't been since long before this critic's parents met. Choosing as its own godfathers Fritz Lang and Buck Rogers, this movie is a swashbuckling, ripsnorting throwback to 30s serials in which a cocky flyboy has his revolver, an intrepid reporter has her ca ... |
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Nerdy 'Napoleon' equals big laughs
Remember that guy in high school who used to paint his hands with glue because he liked to peel it off when it dried? His name is Napoleon, and he now stars in a movie called "Napoleon Dynamite." That is, assuming you lived in an Idaho town mentally ... more |
'Fahrenheit 9/11' ignites war on Bush
"Fahrenheit 9/11": the temperature at which political tempers boil over. It is almost inevitable that the moment one walks out of that theatre, one is going to feel pretty passionate about it. Whether one judges it to be a shameless propaganda-fill ... more
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