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...Silly me: I'd been looking forward to Taken, in part because it was directed by Pierre Morel, whose previous film was District 13, a fast-'n'-brutal, half-classic crime movie highlighting the art of parkour. That's the working-class-thug form of gymnastics that sends athletic young men hurtling over roofs, through transoms and down staircases, all without the aid of a digital art brush. Morel, a cinematographer directing his first feature, kept things moving and snarling with a scuzzy brio and made expert use of the artless screen presence of the leading men (one a stunt...
...Both Morel movies were produced and co-written by Luc Besson, who's a one-man French film industry. He earned his early rep as a writer-director with Subway, a vivacious crime melodrama, then made the Hollywood-influenced thrillers La Femme Nikita and The Professional (which introduced Natalie Portman) and the Bruce Willis sci-fi hit The Fifth Element. Rarely directing movies anymore, he's produced nearly 70 of them this decade, most set in Paris, many in English, including the Transporter series and a couple of Jet Li action adventures. Besson is Hollywood in another...
...October that killed an 83-year-old woman. One man was arrested in connection with that fire, and two others were charged with other fires around the same time, but police told reporters they have no suspects in the latest wave of blazes. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...just about political survival. Monday morning saw the first casualty of his office when his press spokesman, Wade Nkrumah, handed in his resignation. Portland, like the rest of the country, is feeling the effects of the recession; the city is also in the middle of something of a crime wave. Two teens were killed and seven injured in a shooting outside an under-21 nightclub last weekend. Only 10 days earlier, there had been a gang-related shooting in broad daylight. How does a public servant go about his duties with so much public outrage and sniggering? "This is something...
...there's filth and crime in India, but there's so much more too," says Jaspreet Dua, a New Delhi-based business manager with an international luxury brand. "What they've shown is not reality. There's a lot of exaggeration and harping on well-worn clichés about India." (See 10 Indian films to treasure...