Word: boye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...definition, of course, could fit many a movie thriller. Indeed, horror and grief are at the center of Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage, an intense sepulchral mystery about a Spanish woman (Belén Rueda) whose adopted son goes missing and is presumed dead; she, however, believes the boy's whereabouts can be determined by spirits in her house, which happens to be the orphanage she grew up in. It sounds hokey, and the film is not reluctant to dabble in ghost-story conventions. But this is a shuddery, splendidly made parable about the power of both grief...
...Laura wants more: to adopt imperiled children. They already have one: seven-year-old Simon (Roger Princep), a sweet, cheerful, sensitive boy who knows neither that he is adopted nor that he was born HIV positive. Surely Laura and Carlos love him at least as much as any birth child. But they are both beguiled and troubled by Simon's affinity for imaginary friends: Watson and Pepe, whose invisible eccentricities (as related by Simon) they've got used to, and a new companion, Tomas, whose influence seems much more malignant...
...Hergé's favorite story was the 1960 Tintin in Tibet, which tells of Tintin's search for a Chinese boy, Chang (based on one of Hergé's closest friends), whose plane crashes in the Himalayas. Last year, the Dalai Lama himself awarded a "Truth of Light" award to the Hergé Foundation, which runs the late author's estate, as a gesture of thanks to "significant contributions to the public understanding of Tibet" through the book, written a year after the Dalai Lama was driven into exile by the Chinese government...
...though not, I think, with the creepiness that Friedkin, working from a script Tracy Letts adapted from his own play, enthusiastically realizes. He's a director used to working on a larger scale (The Exorcist, The French Connection) who has not had much luck in the movies lately. But, boy, he's good working on this miniscule scale. Those imaginary bugs quickly become more real than any paranoid nightmare. Better still, the movie becomes a kind of object lesson in how powerful, devoutly believed madness can take over weak and needy minds...
...care that much about fashion, that she preferred Sports Illustrated to Cosmo. She knew but she wasn’t knowing, and so, Freeze managed to be smart and earnest. Also funny! There was one part about a girl who thought the best way to handle a pushy boy was to “fake falling asleep when you become uncomfortable.” Above all, Freeze was good-natured; in her editor’s note, Sebastian sounded kind, and in her picture she looked proud. Her magazine folded temporarily when the money ran out, and then last semester...