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...Joyride attempts to revive this tired cliché by moving its potential victims from an old creaky house to a car in the rural Midwest. Unfortunately, even with this unconventional twist, there is no novelty to Joyride. Director John Dahl (Rounders) is good at creating moods by carefully manipulating color and lighting, and at building suspense with his use of dramatic irony, but these qualities cannot hide the fact that the movie is merely another teen thriller—an average imitation, clichés and all, of so many that have preceded...
Dahl has a history in the business of directing thrillers, having done films of cultish followings such as Red Rock West, The Last Seduction and Unforgettable. Therefore, his direction does not disappoint. Dahl establishes an ominous atmosphere using a variety of unique color and light. Note that a painting of a stormy sea fills a room with its sickish green hue and the glow of fluorescent bulbs outside a motel illuminate a suspenseful scene in red. Furthermore, Dahl savors situations in which his audience knows more about a tense situation than his heroes and heroine do. Viewers are aware...
...most pressing current use.” That use is never a secret. At each of the route’s mileposts - from the Hopkinton town green to the finish line set into the ground in Boston’s Copley plaza—enormous color pictures of Dana Farber’s youngest patients stare and smile back. Some are dangerously, distressingly thin; some have only wisps of hair remaining. But they’re all smiling...
Most everyone at Harvard slaves and sweats over the social cause of their choice: “Ten dollars an hour!” “Color-blind love!” “Rape happens at Harvard!” Of course, arms flailing and spit flying, students often find themselves preaching to the choir. And this is as good as it will ever get for them; nowhere else will they enjoy as tolerant, as sensitive and as dogmatically liberal a community as the university...
...gates covering the signs for A.J.’s Grill and Bok Choy. Of course, Loker is always home to the fun-loving Math Question Help Center, and it can provide a bit of divertissement from hard work—one can always stare at the hypnotic, nonsensical color swirls on the black screen in back...