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...connections?would "shape the politics of the future," he said. Not only did he have a plan to reduce these pressures, Beazley said, but when formulating policies, his Cabinet would consider their likely impact on families in terms of time as well as money. Opponents may call it a gimmick. But Labor says its evolving brand promises a fairer, safer, more caring future. Beazley may share Howard's nostalgia, but he'd like to convince Australians it's time to try the Labor version...
...perfectly honest, The Prestige is wildly overplotted and it contains a final gimmick that you're going to kick yourself for not recognizing sooner. In this context, you're going to especially appreciate Michael Caine's work as Cutter, the man who engineers the lads' best illusions and who is, finally, the most sensible and sympathetic figure present, grounding the film in some sort of rationality. Yet for all the film's murky misdirections, it is very enjoyable. That's because Nolan's recreation of the illusionists' backstage world is so marvelously detailed, including as it does revelations...
...Sweeney” was one of the most thrilling nights of theater I’ve ever experienced—but his production of another intimate Sondheim revival begs the question: when will his minimalist style cease to be aesthetically legitimate and become, instead, a gimmick?The same question could be asked generally of the entire genre of musical theater. Is it a legitimate artistic form with its own set of composition rules, or merely the bastard child of tragedy and opera?The 1975 musical “A Chorus Line” offers a convincing argument for both sides...
...football, plus a lot of pickup games in empty lots. He is impersonated here, quite appealingly, by Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football coach named Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who came out of a college career to coach the then downtrodden Eagles and, as a gimmick designed mostly to hearten their discouraged, if ever raucous, blue collar fans, held open the open tryout at which Papale was discovered...
...that both pilots are rendered herpetologically inert and that someone without experience (shades of Doris Day in Julie) will have to land the plane. Put this another way: Snakes on a Plane is, most basically, a standard disaster-in-the-air movie with a great - oh, all right, salable - gimmick...