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...imbecility, leading to 5) the Paradox of Retrograde Progress. Television is a Faustian bargain (a dazzling technology that induces dullness and even moronism), and the Internet has the same ominous tendencies. It is not a bad idea to mistrust the omnivorous vulgarity of innovation, even its (paradoxical) death instinct. Novelty, in its pointless ingenuity, keeps slaying itself...
...pocket change on it. America is addicted to Amber Alerts and Laci Peterson--type cases, and every cable marathon of lost-child and missing-white-woman coverage is free advertising for Close to Home. This TV season has been notable for ever more gruesome cop shows (Wanted, Killer Instinct) with sensationalistic stories about brutalized women and children. Close to Home, whose early episodes involve a kidnapped young woman and doe-eyed kids on the witness stand, is a softer, more accessible--if emotionally manipulative--version of the same...
...think the tendency to turn to violence as means of conflict resolution is universal. Here in America, after being attacked, our first response was to go and kick some other country’s ass. War has higher stakes than hooliganism, but it’s the same animal instinct in the human race to turn to violence. We have to question...
Meet your quota for cinematic sex and death early next year, when Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction arrives in March. In it, SHARON STONE, with British co-star DAVID MORRISSEY, revisits the 1992 role that made her famous. "We like to think of this as Basic Instinct: The European Version," says Stone, 47. "We were very, very free." Um, how free? "Am I going to sit around and cross and uncross my legs again? Well, I guess everybody will have to pay their $10 to find out." But don't hold your breath for a trilogy. Says Stone: "It would...
...know what you’re thinking—Jodie Foster running franticly through a tightly confined space, driven only by a furious maternal instinct to protect her daughter: I saw this one already, back when it was called “Panic Room.” Well, maybe, but that’s not reason enough to skip “Flightplan,” especially since the formula’s been retooled and improved upon...