Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devolved in the five years since it was displayed in Terminator 2? Into comedy, of course. Because of it, Eddie Murphy's 67th comeback film may actually be a hit. In this remake of Jerry Lewis' 1963 Jekyll-Hyde comedy, Eddie is a pleasant, grossly fat scholar whose thin evil twin is, it seems, Eddie Murphy. Anyway, it looks funny. Murphy often does when he disappears into a character instead of strutting...
MATILDA (August 2), about a girl's revenge on her cruddy parents and evil schoolmistress, has the potential delectations of a Roald Dahl story and Danny DeVito's knowing comic direction. DeVito also plays Matilda's dad, expectorating lines like, "Why wudja wanna read, when ya got the television set sittin' right in frunnaya?" Or, we might add, when ya got a 'plex-full of icky kids' films...
Oliveira builds on the sexuality, religion and Faustian philosophy of the convent setting and tries to weave a new, intricate twist into the good vs. evil plot. But after 90 minutes of sparse dialogue, sparse interaction and even sparser coherence, "The Convent" ends with an inexplicable supernatural occurence--inexplicable in that it does not complete, expand or shed light on any previous theme. With its too frequent literary and biblical references and the overwhelmingly stark, gripping scenery, "The Convent" strives toward artsy epic but falls somewhere in the midst of artsy mediocrity...
...overlooking the most fundamental aspects of Christianity: the beliefs that we are all created by the same Creator, that the life-and-death cycle is an ongoing one and does not cease when one individual passes away, that good is desirable and must be encouraged and practiced and that evil is undesirable and should be contained and shunned...
...crush his Islamic opposition. As a secular Palestinian, however, I believe that Arafat's greatest achievement to date has been his ability to contain the radical elements of Hamas--until Israel foolishly decided to assassinate one of its leaders for past crimes during a stable cease-fire. The greatest evil that this nascent state can face is civil war--calamitous as that may be--that constitutes the gravest danger. The manner in which Arafat deals with his Islamic opposition, indeed all opposition, will crucially determine the future power of the executive in Palestine, and, hence, the nature of its civil...