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...their car fails to restart, the teens are towed by Mick (John Jarratt), an eccentric outbacker with a strange wit. Jarrat’s performance is clearly the strongest part of this movie, playing at first a friendly and appealing man and then promptly switching to the personification of evil. As the action cuts to the three protagonists waking up in Mick’s junk-yard residence, bound as his prisoners, the movie becomes intensely dark. Strings of bullet shots, chases through the desert, exploding cars, and intense silences make the film a heart-stopping thriller more than...
This is not to say that Lewis’ work is flawless or that the theology of “Narnia” is particularly persuasive. There are serious problems in confusing the Biblical Jesus with Aslan the lion, and evil in the real world is never personified as clearly as it is in the White Witch and her coterie of demons and beasts. Lewis did not, however, write the “Chronicles” to be a finely tuned theological treatise; he wrote it as a children’s story. If one tries to read...
...depending on the forces that were arrayed against them. Dwight Eisenhower, confronting a hostile Congress, made his mark with his veto pen. Ronald Reagan rid his White House of the aides whose incompetence and duplicity had produced Iran-contra, and engaged the Soviet foe he had once called an "evil empire." After Bill Clinton got past impeachment, he did what he could by Executive Order and picked his shots with Republicans on Capitol Hill--for instance, demanding more education spending in must-pass bills at the end of the year--boosting his popularity at their expense...
Skoll's bet on movies with a message may pay off yet. Syriana, Participant's venture with Clooney, and its third and most ambitious movie to date, opened nationwide in late November and has received favorable reviews and plenty of buzz. Based on the book See No Evil by former cia operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club...
...Bracing for war, but praying for peace/ Using his power so evil will cease." Excerpt from "THE LEADER," a poem deleted from a Pakistani 11th-grade English textbook after it was discovered that the first letters of each line spelled out "President George W. Bush...