Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...examined on the silver screen--junior high. With relentless detail, Solondz recalls a world of harlequin posters, crop tops, and the first birthday parties where you didn't invite everyone in the class. But the film falters when Solondz pans out, stretches the plot, and attempts to shift from brutal realism to the much more abstract genre of farce...
...time, it seemed to many people like a good idea. In the wake of several brutal murders by former convicts, California enacted the toughest "three strikes" law in the nation. Any criminal with a serious or violent prior felony would automatically have his sentence doubled for a second conviction and, on a third felony conviction, would be put away for 25 years to life. But the 1994 statute, endorsed by 72% of California voters in a ballot initiative, had troubling consequences. The courts became clogged with the three-strike cases of nonviolent criminals. (One man got 25 years to life...
...violence caused by Natural Born Killers--whose critics claim helped inspire several copycat murders. (Indeed, the film has become such a hot potato that one of its producers, Jane Hamsher, confirms that Warner Bros., the studio that produced it, has quietly relinquished its rights to the even more brutal "director's cut" video version...
...tiny minority of Israelis has had a change of heart about peace. Having been in the territories a couple of months ago and seen what the devastation of the Israeli-American peace process has wrought on the Palestinians, I came to the painful conclusion that better a crude and brutal Netanyahu than a posturing--but also crude and brutal, judging by his actions in the territories and in Lebanon--Peres...
Look again. The Rock, directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, is less a rip-off than a corrective. Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been...