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James Crawford

Fight Club
By James Crawford | October 19, 2004

It is difficult to view David Fincher’s 1999 polemic Fight Club and not recall the 9/11 attacks—in the final shot, two financial towers explode and collapse as Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter look on from a vantage point earlier dubbed “Ground Zero” by Brad Pitt.

Infernal Affairs
By James Crawford | October 1, 2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
By James Crawford | September 17, 2004
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