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...3hr.11min. evening opens with a trailer for Machete - not a fake film, since Rodriguez, who wastes nothing, reportedly plans to make this movie. It stars Rodriguez's cousin Danny Trejo, whose leathery face is already rated R for menacing violence, and Cheech Marin as a priest called to arm himself against the mob. When a man on the receiving end of Marin's gun pleads for mercy, the padre replies, "God has mercy. I don't," and blasts away. (The line paraphrases the title of the first Bud Spencer-Terence Hill spaghetti Western God Forgives...
...Space Odyssey” theme. But all expectations for a substantial movie are dashed when the screen cuts to Conway whining out a bed-top soliloquy. Here, we see the film for the Malkovich-a-thon it really is. Malkovich delivers a glib tour-de-force in which no fake accent is left unspoken, nor effeminate garment or cosmetic unworn. The radical variation in behavior is meant to highlight how little both Conway and his rubes knew of Kubrick, but it overtakes all other aspects of the film. Malkovich’s extreme performance almost redeems the film, but ultimately...
...that we just haven’t read it.It’s easy to understand why people bullshit in class. It’s a necessary skill, fabrication for survival, forced upon us by the combination of too little sleep and too many commitments. But some argue that faking it has become an integral part of American life. In 2005, philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt came out with “On Bullshit,” a slim volume that claimed bullshit is abundant in all parts of our culture. With a variety of sources, Frankfurt attempted to formulate...
...parody the infra-dig, ultraviolent '70s genre movies that used to fill three hours at scuzzy urban theaters. And just the right auteur-perps showed up for the job: Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), plus a few other cult directors to provide zesty trailers of fake horror films. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a zombie thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane car chase. More than the autos...
...According to media reports, Ducat has a history of quixotic protests. In 1998, he climbed a tower to protest against a politician whom he accused of being insufficiently Filipino. And in 1998, he reportedly held two priests hostage with a hand grenade (which later turned out to be a fake) because of a labor dispute. No charges were filed in either incident...