Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Club Dead opens with a cinematic sequence that is unmistakably MTV. A harddriving, Stone Temple Pilots-like sound loop accompanies digitized video whose grainy and flickering characteristics are quite apropos against the violent, brash animation--way to go for MTV to turn technological limitation into chic...
...Federal Hill" refuses to take the easy way out. Near the end of the film, Ralph answers Nicky's question, "I wanted to leave the Hill, can you believe that?" with a characteristically brash reply, "So let's go. We'll just go, anywhere." Given what's gone before, the audience knows that's impossible, Instead, after a final, chilling shot, black and white blur into the realistic gray of masonry cement...
...mother first and, above all, protective of her nine children, fiercely ambitious for them. And she withstood the misfortunes of her life with fortitude. But to call her a matriarch and leave it at that shows how much we forget. It was Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy--more than her brash and dashing husband, more than the glamorous daughter-in-law she outlived, even more than her martyred sons--who forged the Kennedy character. It was Rose Kennedy, in reality, who played mythmaker to America's most mythic clan...
...Bold, brash, sometimes a bit goofy, Newt Gingrich is ready...
...begin as cliches but soon go wild and wily. A gallery of tough guys who minor in philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...