Word: darks
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...elements of HEALTH’s style: a mix of elaborate, heavy synths with drums and guitar, buried androgynous vocals and an industrial feel that is reminiscent of Trent Reznor. The industrial influence ads color musically, but it fails to provide thematic depth. The album is steeped in monotonously dark imagery; take for further evidence the songs entitled “Severin” and “Eat Flesh.” What the record needs is a little lightness, a relief from its overbearing gloom. The unyielding, pounding percussion only reinforces the prevailing theme. The album?...
...look at the artistic aspects.” All eight of Mograbi’s films focus on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, particularly on how the constant violence between the two territories impacts their residents. Mograbi is well-known for adding incongruous elements to his films, including dark humor and his own musings, which often reflect his pacifist views. He says that his aversion to violence began to develop after a stint as a reserve soldier in 1983, when he refused to fight in the war between Israel and Lebanon. “I thought...
...less frequent. Whatever disease “The Office” has, it’s terminal. By all accounts, “The Office” should not have succeeded in the first place. Channel 4’s “Peep Show,” a dark, quirky gem of a single-camera comedy, was remade for Fox in 2005—the same year that the first season of the “The Office” aired stateside—and was never commissioned beyond the pilot. More recently, a U.S. version...
...feminist, slam-poetry writing employee and friend; when we first meet her, she is reciting graphic poetry to a shocked elderly woman buying flowers. While Eckhart is not quite so striking in his portrayal of Burke as he was as Two-Face in “The Dark Knight,” he is convincing as the outwardly charming, inwardly troubled hero. And though she doesn’t stretch too far from her other recent romantic roles in “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “The Break...
...shoulders shudder, Paddy Chayefsky, the great leftist playwright, looks like a prophet. He's the man who coined the phrase that, according to Luntz, is the rare thing Americans can agree on. He gave the line to Howard Beale, the mad anchorman at the center of the dark satire Network...