“More of this story is true than you would believe,” we are told in the opening moments of The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s a fair warning and one that bears repeating the further the film slides into incredulity and absurdity. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. No doubt intended as the comic [...]

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Several years ago, I listened to an enjoyable 1950’s era radio drama about an astronaut who falls prey to dementia after prolonged exposure to the solitude of living in deep space. So I very much looked forward to Moon, for all appearances a philosophical sci-fi thriller in the same vein. If Moon disappointed me on [...]

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