Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...current of campaign politics whirls and eddies around the military service of the candidates, the ongoing conflict in Iraq—already raising specters of Vietnam—has resurrected yet another ghost of that era: the military draft. Specifically, focus has suddenly been thrown to the Universal National Service Act of 2003 (HR163), which, among other things, could be used to reinstate a military draft. Despite gaining its notoriety for that possibility, HR163 isn’t merely a “draft” at all. It’s a plan for indentured servitude to the President...
...back from being a 21st century art form, it's people. So let's go with pixels. They're cuter, cheaper, better behaved. They can simulate funny sea creatures (Shark Tale), re-create 1939 Manhattan or Shangri-La (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), visualize a future dystopia (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) with a wave of a wand, the click of a mouse...
MOVIES: Sky Captain, Shark Tale and Ghost 2 paint a future that's fantastic but not quite human...
...first time I listened to Wilco’s latest effort, A ghost is born, I couldn’t wrap my head around this latest bout of sonic curiosity. I was immediately turned off by drearily oblique opener “At Least That’s What You Said” and the whirring pomposity of “Less Than You Think.” But focusing on its quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful...
...house-sitter?) On one of his forays he meets a lovely woman (Lee Seung-yun), the abused wife of a golf-mad businessman. A fable of seduction and soul-mating, violence and revenge, plays out in this nearly wordless film that offers a modern gloss on an Asian ghost story...