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...Anna Faris takes the lead: Known by younger audiences for her performances as ditzy Cindy Campbell from the Scary Movie franchise, and by attentive grownup filmgoers for her small roles in Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation, funny Anna Faris finally gets the screen time she deserves in the stoner comedy Smiley Face. Faris stars as a pothead actress sent on a series of misadventures after she devours some weed-laced cupcakes. OK, so director Greg Araki's picture is not a huge departure from Faris' spacey blonde cinema roots, but it is that rare physical comedy that stars...
...capes, no masks, no problem. The live-action comic book about ordinary folks discovering extraordinary powers transcended geek appeal with a crisp, focused plot and a dose of humor. Special honors go to Masi Oka, who, as time-traveling cubicle jockey Hiro, stood in for every kid (and grownup) who has ever wished he could close his eyes, squint really hard and save the world...
...inclination to give up. This sense of wounded dignity is captured in a cartoon in Monday's Times of India, depicting Manmohan at the "nuclear high table," but sitting in a baby's high chair beside President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who both sit on grownup seats. "I only wish they'd given me a different chair," laments the Prime Minister. The U.S. sees India as an important democratic ally in Asia, a kind of hedge against the rise of China. But as the reaction to the nuclear deal shows, many Indians still feel like they...
...your precious kid sister get killed and eaten might well turn you into a psychopath who kills and eats people. The argument is plausible: the bitten becomes the biter, and takes his revenge by making sure the biters get bit. Plausible, yes, but a lot less interesting than the grownup spectacle of the super-Mensa, super-crazy Hannibal in the first two books...
...always seem so grownup. Do you feel more comfortable with adults or children...