Word: dank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Similarly, an eclectic mix of cheery students and weary proletarians converge. They brush against one another in dank corridors, share impatient waits for lazy trains and lock in forced, anonymous embrace on packed cars...
Visitors to the grotto-like Ocean Learning World experience the mysteries of the sea. Wending their way through a dank cavern, they are suddenly plunged into an aquatic research center lined with industrial-steel walls and exposed pipes. There they can park themselves in a yellow submarine once used for deep-sea exploration or watch wet-suited guides equipped with scuba gear investigate a simulated shipwreck in an 85,000-gal. tank...
...discovers an ugly crime, an unsuspected gift for intellectual detective work and, eventually, a romantic attachment to Washington's character as the two try to ensnare a particularly unpleasant serial killer. The movie doesn't stand up to close, logical parsing. But Noyce's direction is atmospheric in the dank, currently chic manner; his actors spunky and attractive; and the path to the final, rather conventional, revelation is strewn with grotesque and suspenseful difficulties. It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly passages...
...sound is good, the space is wide and the lights blink and flash, but Axis ultimately exudes the air of a dive, an image which, to be fair, must be intentional. It's dank with low ceilings, rendering it perfect for the hardcore fans of the cutting-edge acts shipped here from Europe and Japan. Many of dance music's big names played here while they were still perched before the edge of Rolling Stone stardom. Good shows, unfortunately, aren't always listed. Look for flyers (try Boston Beat Imports on Newbury St.), or call. Abercrombie and Fitch types...
High school grads Alice (Claire Danes) and Darlene (Kate Beckinsale) lark off to Thailand, where they get framed on a heroin rap. The dank, formulaic script allows few of the moral ambiguities of 1998's Return to Paradise (there the country was Malaysia, and the American prisoner sort of guilty). The tale also has little of the pulpy juice of the B-movies Kaplan made in the '70s. The only guilty pleasure is watching Danes' wildly noble emoting. Her tears are as strong as a porn queen's orgasm...