Russell Crowe is warm and impressive as the town sheriff and team captain, and Burt Reynolds, coiffed like a silver fox, is amusing as the town judge and team coach.

NEWYORKER: Mystery, Alaska

Dudley museum and art gallery is exhibiting the book and three watercolour pictures by Ernest R Fox, who used to live in the town.

BBC: Edward R Fox sketchbook found in charity shop is displayed

Wild reindeer, Arctic fox and polar bear are a regular presence in the town's hinterland, even as Svalbard is littered with reminders of the hunting expeditions which for centuries drove many Arctic species to the brink of extinction.

BBC: Drawing near to the North Pole

"Fox was totally stunned by it, " says Nico Dekker, chief executive of Cape Town Film Studios, the South African facility where "Chronicle" was primarily shot.

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