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...films are disappointingly cursory. Daniels’ violent tendencies lead only to a brief meditation—“God loves violence…it’s what we are,” declares the hospital Warden, musing on humanity—a mere shadow of Jake LaMotta’s trials in “Raging Bull.” Scorsese dabbles with a few bigger ideas, but never latches onto something really worth saying...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shutter Island | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...Crimson responded and nearly salvaged the match with consecutive wins from rookie Paul Liguori (149) and O’Connor. Liguori built a 7-2 lead early on and held on for the 9-8 decision. O’Connor, meanwhile, had little trouble dispatching the Lions’ Jake O’Hara with a fall...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield | Title: Co-Captains Shine in Lopsided Losses | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Barry Mizen, whose 16-year-old son Jimmy was murdered in 2008, says his family endured months of personal attacks on a Facebook page that was created after Jimmy's killer, Jake Fahri, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last March. "The words going back and forth were getting really nasty - it was just so undignified," says Mizen, who lives in southeast England. "My children were taking it very personally." Around the same time, taunting messages also started to come from Fahri's Twitter account, including one that said, "Jimmy Mizen was a pathetic loser." "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Prisoners Harass Their Victims Using Facebook | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...live up to the high-points of other ensemble romantic comedies such as “Love, Actually” or “He’s Just Not that Into You,” it will likely please you in a way that only Leonidas and Jake Sully can please my manly, manly soul...

Author: By David G. Sklar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Valentine's Day | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Dongria don't want to leave their mountain, but that doesn't mean they want to be left in an untouched state of nature. At one point in the film, Avatar's hero, Jake Sully, laments about the Na'vi, "They're not going to make a deal ... There's nothing that we have that they want." But that's not necessarily true for the Dongria or the millions of other so-called tribals who live in India's vast stretches of undeveloped forest. While they are largely self-sufficient, living on what they can grow and hunt, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Echoes of Avatar: Is a Tribe in India the Real-Life Na'vi? | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

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