Word: angstful
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...Which could be why I liked it. To place a sensitive story in a male-epic genre - to dramatize feelings of angst and personal betrayal worthy of an Ingmar Bergman film, and then to dress them up in gaudy comic-book colors - is to pull off a smartly subversive drag show. With, yes, 25 mins. of fabulous fights. Peter's tussle with Sandman, and his aerial battle with the supersonic skateboarding New Goblin, are plenty snazzy. But anyone can do that; in action movies, everyone has done that. What's better, in a threequel, is rethinking the characters, the franchise...
...year's first surefire blockbuster lives up to its hype. Having saved Gotham while battling a severe case of teen angst, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is now a citywide celebrity as Spidey, with a swelled head to match. Enter a mess of nemeses, some old (James Franco as Harry Osborn), some new to the film series (Topher Grace as Venom, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman). For all the zippy fights and persuasive visual effects, SM3 is essentially a relationship movie, and a very sensitive one, about male-female and male-male bonding--it must set an all-time record...
...Studies Werner Sollors. Essayist Andrew Lam, performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings to the audience gathered in Ticknor Lounge. Sollors provided opening remarks and introduced the first reading, Andrew Lam’s “Child of Two Worlds,” an angst-ridden autobiographical sketch of the author’s exile from Vietnam and his coming of age in America, from his essay collection “Perfume Dreams.” “His writing represents the inevitability of some form of American assimilation that, while it is still...
...what? / I’m a cartoon, you’re a full moon, let’s stay up.” This is Bright Eyes at some of its best: youthfully articulate, refreshingly sentimental. It’s during these moments, within the mostly disjointed and angst-ridden “Cassadaga,” that flashes of simple honesty become insights into the album’s main theme: Oberst’s personal longing for love in a world of uncertainty and pain. In the song “Make a Plan to Love...
...acting by Paulo Costanzo and Steph Song. Playing main character Ryan and his love interest Ming, these two young actors establish themselves with believable and entertaining performances. Their talent and natural attitudes further set the film apart from the many others that share similar plots. Costanzo effectively conveys the angst that Ryan feels without taking his character too seriously. He captures Ryan’s aloof nature in a manner that fits so well with Fox’s direction style and the relaxed tone of the script. You can’t help but become invested in the success...