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They were right. And thank God. The Office (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.; preview March 24, 9:30 p.m. E.T.) keeps elements of the original, like the mockumentary format and the long, awkward pauses. But it finds a discomfiting American humor...
...Nineties: the soundtrack of our early adolescent lives. Last Saturday’s Pfoho ’90s Dance served up a heady dose of nostalgia for the days of awkward make-out attempts, popped pimples and painful boy-girl interactions. In Cambridge, luckily, some things never change...
Kwon-taek acknowledged the awkward disconnect between his work and much of the audience: “If you are a first time viewer [of my films] it is not strange to perceive them as strange or unfamiliar. But I have tried to provide points of access for you into them.” And indeed he did: the characters that populate his films, in spite of their inhabitation of a distant continent during a remote century, are comprehensible, relatable, and accessible. The HFA should strive to makes its screenings the same...
This is not When Harry Met Sally, but Hitch does perform one of that film’s most astonishing tricks: Hitch believably turns Kevin James into a romantic lead worthy of Amber Valletta. If nothing else, the film is inspiring for all those goofy, awkward, smart Harvard men with few social skills...
Although it’s supposed to be a lullaby, the fact that Eminem sounds like he’s half asleep on this song winds up sounding pretty awkward. The rhymes are startling, technically speaking, but his delivery makes them seem unnecessarily forced. At the same time, he’s sounding more and more convincing playing the role of “dad”—which on the one hand is comforting because he actually does have children, but depressing on the other. This is the guy who used to be Slim Shady, after...