Word: evilness
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...form, liquid and monumental. The song: 4 - Jack White and Alicia Keys duet on a power-pop number that's tenacious but not delightful. Chief villain: 6 - Amalric, who normally plays underdogs, hasn't the stature of a Dr. No or a Salamanca, but he's got the evil sneer down pat. Bond girl: 9 - Olga Kurylenko is more than OK. Fight scenes: 9 - frenetic, if familiar. And Bond - 7: Craig certainly fills the frame of a modern, wounded action hero; but, just once or twice, could he, and this mostly knuckle-cracking, often crackerjack film, crack a smile...
...already had the twist spoiled for you, so take a couple of shots in mourning. For the three people whom I just ruined it for, drink the same. Mea culpa. 2. Every time Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) speaks. His Frankenstein-esque lines like “The evil is gone!” and “I realized what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply—evil” are so ridiculously over-the-top that your brain requires numbing. 3. Every time the main “Halloween?...
...honest-to-gosh wolf-killer may assume higher public office, and the people on the television say that no one’s going to have any money pretty soon. As my father says, “Stranger than fiction...”But have faith! Fear no evil, be not in want—seek out wonderful, undiscovered music, and goodness and love will surely follow. Be forewarned: the road to finding new tracks, as you may know, is unavoidably long and fraught with disappointment. I’ve traveled that road, and know that there are disappointments...
...fact of contemporary politics is that we've lost the ability to get through a campaign without transforming honorable alternatives into cartoons of good and evil. Disagreement is out; denunciation is in. The distinctive tune of our day is hysteria with a drumbeat of hyperbole, all set in the key of bad faith...
Separating fact from fiction can be a difficult balancing act, but playwright Anne Washburn has impressively smudged that division, leaving an image of the fantastical nature of evil in its wake. Based on the trial of former Romanian dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and held together by a thick mixture of absurdity and Eastern European accents, the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of “The Communist Dracula Pageant” creates an image of madness that is both entertainingly and shockingly outlandish.The players will perform this unbelievable truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told...