Word: brutality
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Whew. That’s how Joe Walsh described how his Harvard team felt before its Ivy Championship Series date with Princeton last spring. After surviving the brutal gauntlet of the Rolfe Division—last-place Yale finished with an 11-9 mark, or the same record as the Gehrig Division-winning Tigers—the Crimson exhaled when it saw black and orange in the visitors’ dugout. “Maybe we needed to be on edge like we were every weekend,” Walsh said, “knowing that if you drop...
Another franchise reinvigorated by a prequel, this film of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel introduces Daniel Craig as a younger, surlier 007, with more abdominal rips than all 300 Spartans. Craig's Bond is a rogue warrior playing by his own brutal rules. The plot, as always, is irrelevant, so enjoy the movie for what it is: a bunch of cool stunts, gritty scenes and capital-A actors having...
...torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content...
...brothers personify the division: Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who's open to political compromise, and Damien (Cillian Murphy), who won't renounce the purity of his socialist ideals and joins the revolutionary arm of the i.r.a. Loach's approach, though, is anything but evenhanded. The British soldiers are cartoonishly brutal, insulting old ladies, bayoneting men, pulling out a suspect's fingernails with rusty pliers. It's easy to see which of the brothers is to have your sympathy. Murphy, with his sensitive, sensuous features, completely outglams Delaney. And he's the leftmost character in the movie...
...Murphy, Delaney, and supporting actors Sabrina Barry and Liam Cunningham do what they can to breathe some life into their tired characters, though such moments are few and far between. All is not lost, though. The violence that one would expect in a film like this is honest and brutal, just like the war itself. Handsome lensing shows off the shot-on-location countryside of Northern Ireland. What advice can the jury at Cannes use this year, when many films will once again compete for the distinctive Palme d’Or? Here’s what...