Word: demonical
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...wife and film critic David Thomson through Death Valley in a 1990 Coupe de Ville with a temperature indicator on the dashboard - we hit 108 mph when the air outside was 108 degrees - my usual feeling behind the wheel is the apprehension that I'll be sideswiped by demon-driving jerks like the ones in Death Proof. When Zoe's and Mike's cars go barreling onto a highway, forcing the other drivers to go swerving and smashing, I imagine myself as one of the innocent victims of this rampage, not the caraholics I'm supposed to be rooting...
Julian McMahon, an actor widely known for his dark and racy roles, is embarking on an uncharted course: the one traveled by the regular American Joe. After gaining fame in the United States by playing such parts as the fierce demon Cole Turner on the television show “Charmed” and the smoldering Dr. Christian Troy on “Nip/Tuck,” the native Aussie’s new film, “Premonition,” finds him in a surprisingly tame role. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Although “Premonition?...
...slowly bled to death over the remainder of regulation and two overtime periods by the infamous Princeton scheme. But despite the differences, the two defeats represent the same threat--an extended losing streak as a direct result of the psychological torment of Harvard’s personal demon. And unless someone steps up for the Crimson, it is a threat that could easily become realized down the stretch, as Harvard is on the road at Brown and Yale this weekend before returning home to face the Penn/Princeton axis once again...
...morally troubling. Of course, it also contains intermittent hints of brilliance, but they come in all the wrong places and dissipate all too quickly.Mailer’s narrator, who at first claims to be an SS agent but quickly reveals himself to be a mid-level demon (literally), promises to “uproot many a conventional belief.” The first such belief, it seems, is that a novel about Hitler should be engrossing and disturbing, viscerally appealing, and morally horrifying from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens the novel in a mode that borders on the farcical, with...
...Core is actually an immortal demon doppelganger that has long taken the form of one set of requirements, and will soon take the form of another. It has never lived; therefore, it can never die, only shapeshift and suck the souls of Harvard students. Also, it impregnates TF’s with Rosemary’s baby...