Word: chasings
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...comic strip, the Moomin family strays far from the tranquil charms of Moominvalley: on the French Riviera, Moominpappa gets drunk and Moomin's sweetheart, the Snork Maiden, is seduced by a toothy film star. But then the hattifatteners appear - mute, sock-like animals that grow from seeds and chase after electric storms. There's the discovery of a chestful of swearwords (they have legs) and, at one point, the gentle Moomin is forced by hunger to kill and roast a wild pig. Here is where Jansson's weird but true world begins; where fear, loneliness and insecurity are banished...
Written like a classic crime story, this true-life tale kicks off with a botched robbery and police chase. Authorities raid the villa of a Munich-based antiquarian to discover a collection of 4th century B.C. vases soaking off encrustations - and traces of theft - in a 1.5-m-deep swimming pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of crooked art dealers, shady collectors and formidable art institutions are implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner? Giacomo Medici, Italy...
...Goodfellas”), while “Casino Royale” leaves most Bond films in the dust. But neither of these films is so good because of its violence. Indeed, the best action scene in “Casino Royale” is a beginning chase scene with practically no blood; “The Departed” works because of terrific acting by Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, and (especially) Leonardo DiCaprio...
...writers of “Casino Royale” include “Crash” writer/director Paul Haggis, who adds his effective (if overblown) dialogue to the film, but doesn’t try to convince you that the obscenely long and bloody chase sequence on a Miami runway has anything to do with plot or character development. This is disappointing—it holds “Casino Royale” back from being one of the greatest Bond films ever—but not horribly so. In other films where the interstitial space between blood splatters...
Without McCain, Halsey had a much smaller force defending Leyte Gulf. Halsey—in a testament to his terrible tactical judgment—then took all his ships out of the gulf and sailed northward to chase a Japanese “decoy” task force. Meanwhile, Kurita and his battleships cruised into Leyte Gulf unmolested...