Word: coffining
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...movie adaptations go, in my Father's Den wears its literary heart on its sleeve. Based on Maurice Gee's 1972 novel of the same name, the film begins with the poetic voice-over of a teenage girl, later seen lying, as if in a coffin, along a railway track: "One day in a town at the end of the world, the tide went out and never returned." But as we get to know the soon-to-disappear Celia (Emily Barclay), whose relationship with a returned war photographer (Matthew Macfadyen) the movie charts, the film's biggest surprise...
...cushion all but sealed it for the home team, and Brady’s fumble at the Huskies’ 20 yard-line—recovered by freshman defensive end Desmond Bryant—was the final nail in the coffin. Schindel booted his second field goal of the game, and Harvard led 41-14 after three quarters...
...parallel tracks, with flashbacks set in Charles' childhood. The career scenes are shot in high-contrast graininess, the early ones in a pellucid sunlight that Charles would soon lose sight of. Those vignettes--his brother drowning as Charles stands paralyzed, his mother sobbing heedlessly on the boy's coffin--have an indelible poignancy. On one radiant afternoon, Charles, now nearly blinded by glaucoma, listens to and memorizes the music of a cricket, a clopping horse and, breathing softly nearby, his mother. "I hear you too, Mama," the child says...
...wasn’t until the second half that the Crimson managed to break open the flood gates against the Big Red, when it scored two goals within four minutes of each other to take a 3-0 lead, and hammer the nail in the coffin...
...love Green Day, and you probably do too, but while the band’s last couple of efforts (Warning and Nimrod) contained enough amazing songs to justify their continued existence, “American Idiot” slams the nails into their coffin with a depressingly heavy hand...