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...Hanks is back on a killer beach, this time alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in Saving Private Ryan faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate...
...Hanks is back on a killer beach, and this time he's alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in "Saving Private Ryan" faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work - no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
...David Boring," by Daniel Clowes Sharing similar themes with "Jimmy Corrigan," "David Boring" features a young man with a vanished father and a clinging mother. But its grayish-blue palette and more conventional layout give it an air of grim seriousness against which take place completely absurd events. (At one point Boring gets shot in the head but merely suffers a dent in his brow.) Clowes has made "David Boring" the most readable comic novel of the year...
Like Harry Potter peering into the mirror of Erised, investors examining this wacky stock market can see exactly what they want to see. The fumbled election? Terrible news, say the grim. No clear winner; no telling what's in store. Wonderful news, say the glib. So much confusion means so much gridlock in Congress that we'll probably not get any dumb spending bills or tax cuts. Read: The surplus is safe...