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KBT Presents: SHOW ME LOVE (aka Fucking Åmål)

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2008-07-24 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson 's feature debut was lauded with many awards during its film festival run in 1998-1999. And rightfully so, he takes the small town teenage drama to interesting new places. First by making significant events (first kiss or losing virginity) mundane, and second by making smaller events (a spat between siblings or a...
 
Tags: love, town teenage drama, effective love story, town, original swedish title, high-school relationship politics, film, events, success
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: THE RUNDOWN

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2008-07-10 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
On one level, I feel a bit guilty about recommending the latest Will Smith independence day holiday film Hancock, simply because I'm not a fan of the Will Smith independence day genre (seriously, there are half a dozen of these at this point). But Hancock actually has a lot to chew on between the Special Effects Blockbuster framework, and the...
 
Tags: dwayne johnson, large-pecs action genre, curiously meterosexual mulit-racial, sean william scott, action picture, heart guerrilla fighter, movie, berg, peter berg
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: HEAVENLY CREATURES

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2008-07-08 00:00:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
In the period in between his splatter-comedy beginnings and his mega-special effects blockbusters, including the much feted Lord of the Rings trilogy and somewhat overlooked The Frighteners , Kiwi director Peter Jackson made a poignant and haunting film examining two of New Zealand's most notorious murderers. This crime, committed in the 1950s,...
 
Tags: stronger pauline parker, pauline, pauline parker, real pauline parker, film, film focuses, parker, fantasy film, heavenly creatures
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS

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2008-06-26 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
...movies, TV commercials and Music Videos have borrowed his step-printing ('watercolour slow motion') technique. He has been highly influential, although not really known outside of arty film circles His latest film, the first full length feature in English, My Blueberry Nights , was raked over the coals critically. The critical community...
 
Tags: arty film circles, film, movie, movie wears, previous films, blueberry nights, films, lead performance, story
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: C.R.A.Z.Y.

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2008-05-20 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
...movies a higher profile than they typically have
 
Tags: zac embody, zac, collection, film, extensive record collection, film effortless juggles, wit, construction worker father, visual wit
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: ROBOCOP

2008-05-06 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
 
With Ironman currently tearing up the box-office as the summer kick off movie, I'd like to offer a little counter-programming to the watered down and derivative paint-by-numbers affair. Outside of an always entertaining Robert Downey Jr. performance (which is practically a guarantee in just about anything he does regardless) there are a...
 
Tags: film, revenge film, mainstream blockbuster film, ironman film, robocop, film p0rn0-violent, film suggests, man-in-suit cyborg, robocop hunts
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: KISS ME, DEADLY

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2008-04-22 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
Connoisseurs of silver screen cinema, particlularly of the old-time westerns, screwball comedies and noir crime pictures often use the phrase 'they just do not make 'em like they used to,' when describing a certain style that has faded into history. Well in the case of Robert Aldrich 's 1955 Mike Hammer film Kiss Me, Deadly the phrase, 'they...
 
Tags: noir, film, noir crime pictures, cold war commentary, whimper, robert aldrich, pulp fiction, unusual standard, mysterious woman
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: THE ICE STORM

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2008-04-08 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
...movies made over the past 10 years, and it is very curious that most of the young cast ended up headlining in these modern comic book films, not to mention the director following up by making one. Ang Lee succeeded in making one of the few upscale and mature comic book movies, of all subject, the big green raging fellow Hulk If this makes...
 
Tags: ice storm, director ang lee, ang lee, elijah wood, film, favourite film, ice storm chronicles, pre-frodo elijah wood, movies
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: KING OF KONG - A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS

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2008-03-11 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
Now, at one point last week, I was considering screening the interesting and compelling Great World Of Sound which combines fictional story and verité footage into a scathing comment on contemporary salesmanship, scheisterism and somewhat desperate attempts at something resembling fame in 21st century America. Indeed, that film is, of sorts, a...
 
Tags: film, fictional film, donkey kong, donkey kong anymore, score, official score, glamorous world, competitive classic arcade, steve
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: TROPA DE ELITE

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2008-02-26 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
So hard-boiled it's practically cast in iron, Brazilian crime saga Elite Squad makes even the toughest recent US cop dramas look like Hilary Duff romcoms. Hyper-macho, with a steely ring of well-researched realism, the first fiction venture ... is pitched somewhere between the full-on flash of Brazilian hit City Of God and the narrative...