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...beginning, there was fire. Then somebody tossed a hunk of antelope into the embers, and, lo, there was barbecue. Then a million and a half or so years later, there was the $12,000 Frontgate Deluxe Outdoor Kitchen, with a 48-in. built-in grill, 15,000-BTU dual range-top burner, warming drawer, granite tiles, outlets for an outdoor fridge and barbecue light and the phone number of an on-call barbecue expert, in case you feel you're overdoing the scallops--all shipped to your door with a box of dry, aged steaks from a New York City...
...instructively and entertainingly. The play wouldn't work as seductively as it does-the set-up, the darkening, the climactic switcheroo-without four beguiling actors who make their characters plausible at the sweetest and harshest of moments. (Rudd is especially adroit at suggesting Adam's metamorphosis from nerd to hunk.) Only at the end do we realize exactly who has been manipulated by a clever artist. We have...
...friends escape the army before they're sent to Vietnam, Farrell displays a kind of cool that's rare in today's leading men. A sensitive brooder with rugged good looks, he's Russell Crowe without the ego. It's no surprise that admirers are bandying about words like "hunk" and "heartthrob." (About this, Farrell is characteristically ambivalent: "It doesn't piss me off. But it doesn't make me horny, either.") Even his magnetic screen presence, however, can't explain how Farrell has become such hot property so quickly...
...movie that begins with Queen's We Will Rock You underscoring a 14th century jousting tournament can't be all bad. Unfortunately, writer-director Helgeland's story of a peasant lad (Heath Ledger, The Patriot's young hunk) who uses knightly skills to attempt a rise above his station is not all good either: it can't decide whether to go all out for anachronistic humor or stick to its historical onions. The result is half Python, half Ivanhoe--and not as much fun as either...
...situation. Brandenberg is the best example; it would have been all too easy for his character to be the stereotypical snarling villain who deserves and receives his comeuppance at film’s end. But just as Bly is more anti-hero than your garden-variety all-American hunk of beefy goodness, Brandenberg is shown to be a human, with both flaws and admirable virtues. One expects him to play the villain, and it comes as a pleasant surprise when the script allows him to display his love and heroism at key moments...