Bigger Stronger Fasterby M. Faust |
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I passed on seeing Bigger Stronger Faster when it opened the Hot Docs festival in Toronto some weeks ago because the subject didn’t sound interesting to me. A documentary about the horrors of steroid abuse and their corruption of professional sports? Yeah, whatever. But debuting filmmaker Chris Bell has created something considerably more noteworthy than another cautionary film. |
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Children of Huang Shiby George Sax |
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The first quarter-hour of Children of Huang Shi flies by so energetically, with derring-do and crashing incidents, that a filmgoer may easily confuse the picture with a large-scaled historical romance. But Roger Spottiswoode’s picture, while an epic of sorts, is not one of those. Its biographical story portrays an odyssey of rare personal sacrifice and heroism. |
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Hancockby M. Faust |
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He’s a superhero who doesn’t have a cape or skintight costume. He doesn’t have a secret identity. He doesn’t even have a superhero name, like Fill-in-the-Blank Man. |