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...follows a 12-year-old boy named Oskar who is constantly and brutally bullied in school. A mysterious young girl named Eli moves next door with an older man presumed to be her father, and a rash of brutal murders coincides with her arrival. As Oskar and Eli grow closer every night, he begins to suspect that she may be a vampire. Despite this dark knowledge, Oskar falls in love with Eli, and the relationship that develops between the two changes those around them in profound ways.The acting in this film is simply extraordinary. Both children give incredibly honest, natural...
...signed by the man himself. The lucky ones even get to take a picture of this sacred moment. When Skinner speaks, followers stretch out their hands, their fingers pulled forward by his magnetic stage presence. They’ll do anything to get just a few inches closer to their counselor. But, as the narrator asks at the beginning of the video, who is this Dr. M. Skinner? I am inclined to believe that he is a man of saintly, almost Christ-like greatness. As he strides along the dark stage, his gleaming face illuminates the lecture hall. When...
...Which raises the question, does he succeed? In the same song, Q-Tip forcefully announces his return. The jazzy guitar licks, insistent bass line, sparklingly dissonant piano line, and tight drum beat tell the listener in no uncertain terms that Q-Tip is still an excellent producer. On the closer “Shaka,” the jazzy shades of keyboard strongly evoke A Tribe Called Quest—at least until a squiggly techno-sounding synthesizer riff enters. It’s wonderful how Q-Tip combines disparate musical elements, both past and present, into one cohesive head...
...idiosyncrasies are taken for granted, not announced in a flashy Freudian face-off like the one that introduces Vesper. Camille too seeks revenge, and admits to Bond with wry satisfaction that she slept with the film’s villain, Dominic Greene (a wonderful Mathieu Amalric), to get closer to the Bolivian general who killed her family. Lest the two spies seem like a dour pair, Haggis and Forster let them off the leash every now and then. Despite Vesper’s painfully felt absence, Bond still lets himself seduce fellow agent Strawberry Fields (no joke), while a tipsy...
...Times. Some thought the Times had finally printed enough extra copies of its Nov. 5 edition with Barack Obama's victory front page so that there was one for everybody. But the papers were suspiciously free and had this massive headline across the top: "IRAQ WAR ENDS." Hmm. A closer look revealed that the papers, dated July 4, 2009, weren't the product of the New York Times but an elaborately constructed copycat version with articles like...