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...more. If interactive-TV systems fulfill expectations, viewers as independent as today's Net surfers will be able to travel not just to Websites on flat-panel computer screens but also into home theaters filled with ganglia-tingling news, entertainment and shopping options that they can choose with the flick of a remote-control button. Madison Avenue's big challenge will then be to get consumers to use that same remote-control device to buy an airline ticket to Club Med and, eventually, even...
...movie to be made popular because of its orgies of blood-letting, Reservoir Dogs is different. The pain and death in this movie are not mere two-dimensional ketchup-intensive scenes from a low budget Friday the 13th sequel or romanticized gunfights from the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger flick: Reservoir Dogs, and its sibling in the emerging genre of films such as it and Pulp Fiction being blazed by writer-directors like Tarantino, it on a new level. They are films more than movies--art, not mass-produced lowbrow entertainment (although they have an unmistakable commercial appeal). They take awards...
...Helas Pour Moi" is a far cry from a George Burns-style "Oh God!" flick. Instead, it uses Simon's transformation into God as a springboard for an examination of the heavy topics of faith and love. The townspeople in the idyllic Swiss village where the film is set act as a Greek chorus, offering commentary on the Donnadieus' story and the issues that arise from it. The film is full of tableaux of talking heads filmed against lush backdrops, uttering French-film fortune-cookie phrases like "Love equals prayer. Wrapping one's arm around someone, and clasping hands...
Star Trek has evolved over the years from the brash, sometimes campy original series, with its Day-Glo colors and dime-store special effects, to the more meditative, slickly produced Next Generation, to the relatively conventional action-flick pleasures of the feature films. In all its incarnations, however, Star Trek conveys Roddenberry's optimistic view of the future. Sinister forces and evil aliens might lurk behind every star cluster, but on the bridge of the Enterprise, people of various races, cultures and planets work in utopian harmony. Their adventures, in the early days, were often allegories for earthbound problems like...
Ours is a plastic, throw-away culture. In the perpetual quest for instant gratification--fast food, heart-stopping entertainment, efficient government--we tend to endorse and abolish in grand swaths, with a flick of the wrist, a snap of the fingers and little thought. We love McDonald's french fries for their perfectly consistent thickness and temperature, Schwarzenegger because he produces a constant stream of adrenaline, and a congressperson who stays out of trouble and agrees with us on everything...