Word: apocalypticism
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Those apocalyptic strains haunt Apocalypto, which takes place in an opulent but decaying Maya kingdom, whose leaders insist that if the gods are not appeased by more temples and human sacrifices, the crops will die. But the writers hope that the larger themes of decline will be a wake-up...
Remember five years ago and that heady rush of distortion of myriad garage bands with monosyllabic names—each the “Next Big Thing” according to NME—flooding the music scene? Remember how the Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty, set themselves apart from...
And the hubristic villain gets his comeuppance via people playing music and throwing paper at him; who could wish for a happier non-apocalyptic ending?
Video game heroes have always had a variety of nemeses to battle, from Bowser to Nazis to alien invaders. Now, however, a far greater evil waits: Satan.“Ominous Horizons,” a new Christian computer game that challenges players to recover Gutenberg’s stolen...
Directed by Sam Mendes Universal Pictures 3 1/2 STARS “Jarhead” is director Sam Mendes’ third movie, and like his first two (“American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition”), it dances around the subject of...