Word: caged
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...question are John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peńa), and their survival story is true (this is not a suspense movie; it's a study in terror). They are Port Authority policemen, part of an instant-response unit, who were in the concourse of the World Trade Center when the Twin Towers crashed down around them on 9/11. They have nothing to do but wait, in enormous pain, for a rescue that, considering the magnitude of the destruction, seems virtually impossible, which it was--only 20 survivors were pulled out of the rubble...
...these murky environs, Burkle and his actors shine. Though aesthetically, audiences might find the cage that dominates the set imposing at first, in short order, they’ll be grateful to have something—anything—between themselves and the ever-more-disturbing personalities on stage...
...easier, but it closed Burkle’s directorial career at Harvard on a high note. As in any existentialist voyage, the bumps in the road make the trip worth it: the maids’ games are a ticket to the darkest corners of the soul’s cage...
...they were ooh-la-la, saucier, more worldly than their robust but prim Hollywood counterparts. Then, when movies became films, they were the heart (François Truffaut) and the brains (Jean-Luc Godard) of international cinema in its glory days. Then there were the boulevard comedies, like La Cage aux Folles and Three Men and a Baby, that got remade by Hollywood. After that they retreated into austerity, into the perfunctory embrace of minimalism. And now... well, frankly, now French films are hardly a blip on Americans' cultural radar, so remote from our concerns that we didn't even...
COLOR-BLIND LOVE Realizing interracial romance isn't accepted by all, Marvel called for tolerance by having New Avenger Luke Cage wed private eye Jessica Jones in April...