Articles by Will Sloan

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  Battle For Haditha

  Nick Broomfield

  PUBLISHED Dec 23, 2008

  How did one of the best films of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival slip through the cracks? Following a wave of Iraq-themed box office disaste...

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  Bedtime Stories

  Adam Shankman

  PUBLISHED Dec 23, 2008

  The popularity of Adam Sandler has long mystified me. Then again, so many fellow fuddy duddy critics have already pointed out the nastiness...

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  Gran Torino

  Clint Eastwood

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2008

  As he gets older, Clint Eastwood gets more and more Clint Eastwood-ish. His trademark low-pitched voice has evolved into a harsh, raspy gro...

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  Mad Detective

  Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2008

  Few developments in recent world cinema have been more depressing than the long, slow implosion of the Hong Kong film industry. A scant 15...

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  Fly Me To The Moon

  Ben Stassen

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2008

  During its very brief theatrical run last summer, Fly Me to the Moon's trailers and TV ads claimed that it was the first wide-release, feat...

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  Australia

  Baz Luhrmann

  PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2008

  I couldn’t stand the kid in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. Does that make me a bad person? His name is Nullah and he’s a little Australian "half...

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  Hollywood Singing And Dancing: A Musical History

  Mark McLaughlin

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2008

  There is a fundamental level of competence that a documentary about Hollywood musicals is unlikely to fall beneath. All you really need for...

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  JCVD

  Mabrouk El Mechri

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2008

  Anyone who has spent too much time on YouTube has most likely stumbled across footage of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme accidentally spr...