Word: darkeness
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...better life. "The film only shows what is real," says Rakesh Nair, a driver in New Delhi. "If it's set in a slum, there's going to be garbage. It's those who are making lots of money who are cribbing about the film showing the dark side of India. Those left behind are loving it because they can empathize with the film's hero...
...lumpen nobleman, rabble-rouser and messiah. He's part Jesus, especially in the Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Lucian takes a lashing and keeps on gnashing), and part Spartacus, come to free the slaves - or are they pets - kept by the vampire overlords. In a dungeon or on a dark redoubt, Lucian offers his surly band of rebels "freedom and immortality!" (Wasn't that Tony Blair's campaign slogan when Labour ousted the Tories...
...provide more detail of plot and dialogue, but the visual palette was way too dark for me to take legible notes, and frankly, though I saw it at a midnight screening hours ago, the movie just wasn't that memorable. Suffice to say that there's much bounding about by furry, blurry CGI werewolves, quite a few decapitations and a poignant but nifty crisping of one of the vampires when exposed to sunlight. Being set in an earlier day (night), Lycans renounces the whizzing Matrix-like bullets of the first two movies for swords and a heavy-metal...
...James Ossie's high-flying currency trading outfit, CRE Capital Corp., based in Atlanta, and charged Ossie with allegedly bilking 120 investors out of $25 million. Not exactly Bernie-level action, but for investors who believed Ossie's "little-risk currency-trading contracts" pitch, it goes down as a dark day for their bank accounts...
...stage is dominated by its red velvet curtain and a large chest of drawers, offering little hint of the spectacle to come. Shortly after the house lights dim, though, a voicemail message plays in French and the top-left drawer opens. A pale, lithe arm extends into the darkness, a lit cigarette in its hand. The next few minutes are simultaneously hilarious, disturbing, and beautiful, and they aptly set the tone for the rest of the show. An impossible series of limbs reach out from within the drawers to dress each other, light a candle, and pour wine. Finally, Aur?...