Word: darkness
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...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...
Your crotchety, sentimental liberal grandpa - Patrick Leahy, say, or Dan Rather - picked the Oscar nominations again this year. The voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences don't care that you liked The Dark Knight, which is the second biggest dollar-earner in movie history, and which kids and critics alike appreciated less as a live-action comic book than a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Supporting Actor), the film was shut out of all major award categories, taking seven other doorstop prizes...
...regards to various pensioner maladies. The parallels begin to fade, however, with the end of the first scene. For one thing, the fairy Godfather Drosselmeier takes on an entirely new appeal. As danced by Yury Yanowsky, he is a campy Latin Byron—a sexy sorcerer with a dark purple cape and matching tights to boot. For another, while Balanchine’s Nutcracker is in actuality Drosselmeier’s nephew, Nissinen’s Nutcracker is the much older Cavalier to the Sugarplum Fairy, come from the Kingdom of the Sweets to rescue Clara and bring...
...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?...