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...competition. And forget squabbles come elimination time: as results were announced, competitors joined in group hugs and endless backslapping. Athletes on the stage in London talked of being part of one big family, and they weren't just talking: all of them stayed together in the same London hostel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Running Jumps onto World Stage | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

...fashioned variety. The chases aren't Batmobile-vs.-Joker-truck, they either involve a snowplow or are on foot. And the shock scenes are closer to the murky threat of Val Lewton's '40s horror movies than to the slice-and-dice explicitness of the Saw and Hostel slasher series. Early on, a young woman takes a dip in a public pool, then gets out. Submerged in the pool is a man with a predatory smile. As the camera moves in on him, an air bubble escapes. Nice frisson. And there's one shot that sent people at a critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X Files Movie: For X-Philes Only | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...leap in food-price inflation. The price of bread has nearly doubled. So has the cost of a haircut and a shave on the streets of Karachi. "What can we do?" says barber Shoaib Ahmed, a bachelor who eats all of his meals at a nearby hostel. "If the hotel raises the cost of a roti [a small, flat bread], there is no way then but to raise the haircut prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Ground | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...Correa, who were discovered in Medellin's theater scene, play lower-middle-class kids driven less by economic straits than by a gratuitous belief that even the worst of the U.S. is preferable to the best their own country can give them. Sitting in a dank, cubicle-size hostel room after arriving in New York, a skeptical Marlon reminds Reina that even America has "sh--." Her response: yeah, but it's "gringo sh--." She may sound naive - but she's also a reminder of how Latin America's ineffectual governments continue to drive away even those citizens who seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Honest Look at Illegal Immigration | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...harm to innocent people. Do you still want to enter?" You said yes, and saw this: "91% of you ignored the warning. Where are your morals?" This is, of course, a site devised by Screen Gems, the Sony subsidiary that produced Vacancy, When a Stranger Calls and sequels to Hostel, 8mm, Sniper, Resident Evil and I Know What You Did Last Summer. So Sick is pretty much the in-house genre, and the superior moral tone of Intractable is just another twisted prank. The movie says we're all rotten and weak for watching the very form of lurid stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiding from Untraceable | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

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