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WATCH is FourThousand's guide to movies in Brisbane. While we focus on art-house and independent releases, we never shun our secret pop-culture pleasures. WATCH also has its fingers on the pulse of film-festivals and specially programmed events and we give tickets away every week. We have also been known to organise special preview screenings, which we always chicken out of introducing on the microphone before the previews start playing.
Kick Ass
Based on a comic book about a comic-book fan who decides to become a superhero, Kick-Ass is a meta-valentine to comic-book nerd culture and the plotlines of Batman and Spider-Man. And like superhero comics generally, Kick-Ass indulges nerds' fantasies of righteousness and power reversal.
Like Tobey Maguire, the charming Aaron Johnson is too doe-eyed and buff to be entirely plausible as a teenage dropkick who pulls on more neoprene than he can pull off.
The Men Who Stare At Goats
This shaggy comedy is very loosely based on an incredible true story: the US Army's secret elite squad of Jedi-like psychic warriors. It's pretty much an excuse for Oscar-nominated actors to clown about like doofuses. Actually, I've always preferred George Clooney's wild-eyed slapstick (Burn After Reading, O Brother Where Art Thou?) to his suave or serious roles.
Flickerfest 2010
Who knew an Adam Sandler movie could have dragged out for so long? Though that part with Eminem and Raymond is hilarious, Funny People started to drain my restless ADHD riddled mind after the two hour mark. Flickerfest, on the other hand, won't have the chance. Showcasing the best in short films from around le globe, it's making it's way up to Brisbane for some love-action.
Fantastic Mr Fox
I was dubious about Wes Anderson's take on Roald Dahl's darkly gleeful caper about a cheeky fox who steals from three awful farmers. But Anderson's mannered directorial trademarks work well with the stop-motion animation. There are funny sight gags and quotable lines aplenty, including perhaps the best thing anyone's ever said to Jarvis Cocker in years: "That was a bad song.
The Invention Of Lying
Co-written and directed by its star Ricky Gervais, The Invention Of Lying has a kick-arse premise. In a parallel world in which people don't so much tell the truth as share their every thought, downtrodden Mark Bellison (Gervais) miraculously discovers he can say whatever he wants... and everyone will believe him implicitly.
Valentino: The Last Emperor
I always thought Valentino was his surname, so clearly I had much to learn about Signor Garavani. Luckily, Matt Tyrnauer's very funny documentary paints an intimate portrait of this wizened Oompa-Loompa as he prepares to celebrate 45 years in haute couture. Valentino's lavish 2007 knees-up turns out to have been his swansong - he retired in 2008, leaving his eponymous label in corporate hands.
Macaframa
Chain-rings. Stubs. Cranks. Seat posts. Stems. These words mean sweet jack-all to me. But if you're a fixed-gear rider, the quality of your rings, stubs, cranks and stems could be the difference between life and death. Call me crazy, but I'd say you're a sucker for the latter if your preferred bike is one with no breaks.
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