Articles by Ashley Carter

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  Last Days

  Gus Van Sant

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

  It's hard not to be ambivalent about Last Days, a film that morbidly teeters on the line of fact and fiction. As the final instalment in Va...

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  Lords of Dogtown

  Catherine Hardwicke

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  When it was announced that a movie had been scripted about the Zephyr Skate Team (following the success of Stacey Peralta's documentary, Do...

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  The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D

  Robert Rodriguez

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  Robert Rodriguez is your hero. Here he is following up Sin City with Shark Boy and Lava Girl, a movie conceptualised solely by his seven-ye...

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  Dogtown and Z-Boys: Deluxe Edition

  Stacey Peralta

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

  With the upcoming theatrical release of Lords of Dogtown — a starchy-looking, fictionalised account of the '70s Zephyr Skate/Surf Team — co...

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  Are We There Yet?

  Brian Levant

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

  Ice Cube must be stopped. Remember, circa 1988, when he was all, "straight outta Compton/crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube/from the gang ca...

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  Palindromes

  Todd Solondz

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

  With each film, Todd Solondz further solidifies his role as a societal scab picker. Not a single hot topic goes untouched, and here he nurs...

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  Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

  Vikram Jayanti

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  In 1997, chess super-genius Garry Kasparov famously sat down for a match against IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was the second time Kaspar...

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  Fat Albert

  Joel Zwick

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  Kenan Thompson stars in this could-have-been-worse live action update of the Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids cartoon series. The plot hangs i...