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Have an epic Assassin??s kill to share? You can still submit your story for the chance to be Harvard’s Top Assassin! This week, we share with you a submission from Luke A. Salisbury '12 that shows that a true assassin will use everything from nunchucks to nudity—whatever it takes to get the job done...
...Ninja Assassin?? is “so bad it’s funny” is to misunderstand the extent to which this violent and confused baboon of a movie is “bad.” Though some might try to give this latest martial arts melodrama the benefit of the doubt and call it “ironic,” “Ninja Assassin?? has few fleeting moments of conscious self-deprecation. Its only redeeming characteristic, its constant flow of gasp-inducing, gory fight scenes, is undermined and rendered largely impotent...
...Ninja Assassin?? is not entirely unpleasant. One cannot help but laugh at the film’s ridiculous premise—the struggles between omnipotent modern-day ninjas and rogue European police officers—and marvel at its terrifying violence. It is a movie whose narrative faults are very easy to mistake for lovable farce or parody. “Ninja Assassin,” however, is no joke: it’s an honest failure...
Mayer does experiment with a few new sounds, but not enough to take him into uncharted territory. “Heartbreak Warfare” features a trippy, electronic groove under light electric guitar notes while “Assassin?? incorporates tropical chimes. Fortunately, Mayer’s songwriting is already pleasing enough that he does not have to tinker with his sound in order for “Battle Studies” to be a solid release...
...with words should come as no surprise. The Canadian author has dozens of works (novels, books of poetry and even a libretto) to her name and a basket of prizes in her honor (a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2000 Booker Prize for “The Blind Assassin??). A blend of genres—pulp, sci-fi, revelation—has distinguished her writing as among the most imaginative of the last half-century.But it is above all her affection for language that makes her fiction interesting. Atwood picks at words, she turns them over, she peers at them...