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...film, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which has a stranger visiting a rainswept island near Boston after someone's mysterious disappearance and trying to unravel a conspiracy that may threaten his life. That picture - with a gallery of unreliable characters weaving a web of lies around the baffled hero, who must discover the perpetrator by searching for clues in hidden notes - has been widely compared to Hitchcock and film noir; but it might also be Scorsese's tribute to Polanski. (See the top 10 movies...
...adversaries include not just people but machines. The movie begins with an empty car on the Martha's Vineyard ferry - its driver vanished, and soon found dead - and ends with another car-related death. In the two intervening hours, several mysterious autos with malevolent intent stalk our hero. His only ally is a sedan earlier driven by McAra, whose chatty GPS leads the Ghost to a major suspect: Tom Wilkinson as a Harvard professor whose path may earlier have intersected with the Langs'. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Freshman Dean’s Office, which hosted the event, hopes to introduce more non-athletic intramural activities in the future, such as Guitar Hero competitions or trivia tournaments, said Katie W. Steele, the Director for Freshman Programming...
...tunes, but through the promise of wisdom. “As their songs crescendoed I had the sudden conviction that... behind everything... was a subtle pattern, an order of the most compelling lucidity, but hidden from me, a code I could never crack,” the wily-eyed hero recalls. As Odysseus searches for a definite solution, so too does the reader constantly comb the pages for a nugget of fact...
...since Robin Hood has a local hero given the Nottinghamshire authorities quite such a headache as the one induced by TV presenter and resident Ray Gosling. In a BBC program broadcast on Feb. 15, Gosling confessed to a killing. "Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I've kept for quite a long time," said Gosling, filmed strolling among the weathered headstones at a cemetery for a documentary about attitudes toward mortality. "I killed someone once. He was a young chap. He'd been my lover. He got AIDS...