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...these self-contradictions are difficult to accept, they are also the contradictions that make it so difficult to comprehend seemingly banal evil or, in Daniel Goldhagen’s interpretation, the willingness of the many who served as Hitler’s executioners...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hitler's Downfall Rescreened | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...Ring Two is set some indiscriminate time after the “events” of the first film, when an evil ghost named Samara terrorized the viewers of her brief “greatest hits” video, a tape teeming with eerie images of death and suicide. Now, our heroine Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her morbid young son Aidan (David Dorfman) must relocate to a small Oregon town to escape the terror of Samara, who looks, more than ever, like Cousin It from "The Addams Family." While the first film yawned its way through endless exposition, particularly...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Ring Two | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...around from firm to firm—but each company that takes on the project soon finds itself filing for bankruptcy. Perhaps there is something inherently flawed in the idea of a character who is a cut-rate Houdini knockoff representing an organization called The Golden Key battling the evil forces of The Iron Chain...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plot Leaves Chabon's Escapist in a Bind | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...Escapist’s helper Big Al as he is bribed by The Escapist’s rival, a nefarious organization known as The Iron Chain. In the end, Big Al helps the Escapist triumph, but there is the clear indication that maybe, for a strongman like himself, evil might have been the right path. By adding moral ambiguity to a classically structured narrative, Vaughn makes the comic compelling even to modern audiences...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plot Leaves Chabon's Escapist in a Bind | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...that tugs yearning audiences along, the opera concludes rather abruptly, with a seemingly tacked-on epilogue after the dramatic death of Don Giovanni. Never letting an opportunity for a comedic moment pass, the remaining characters stand in a semicircle, playfully singing the last line of “the evil come to evil ends and the wicked die, just as they themselves have lived...

Author: By Jennifer D.M. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Simplicity Tells a Good Giovanni Story | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

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