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...that the company has the right to share with its Starz and Encore cable channel subscribers - approximately 800 Hollywood movies, plus concerts and other interesting stuff. I was happy to find the dark stylized Sin City already in the lineup, as well as Katsuhiro Otomo's 2005 anime epic Steamboy. Other gems I picked up while browsing: Peter Sellers' The Mouse That Roared, Prince's Sign O' The Times concert and Emma, starring the lovely Gwyneth Paltrow. The diversity of titles was impressive, and the catalog is constantly refreshed and updated - each title has an expiration date corresponding to Starz...
...Victorian virus has recently infected two of the top anime-tors: Miyazaki set his latest feature, Howl's Moving Castle, in a fanciful antique England; Otomo retreated to 1860s London for the first anime feature he has directed since Akira. Steamboy, available in two cuts (get the 126-min. director's version), sets a complex spy plot chugging across its sooty landscapes, with villains pursuing the boy hero--in some great chase scenes--to harness a 19th century WMD. Only the lad's ingenuity can defeat them. That's the power of anime: it's a weapon of mass perception...
...STEAMBOY KATSUHIRO OTOMO...
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