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...horror movie sequel. This is another round of disturbingly gruesome imagery surpassed in horror only by the cast’s absurdly bad acting. In the movie that left adults cringing and young males drooling, “Saw” introduced the world to the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), a terminal cancer patient who places his morally aberrant victims in shocking, deadly situations for which extreme measures are needed to survive. Jigsaw intends to make society value the sanctity of life, believing those who live will have a greater appreciation for what they were wasting away. Amanda (Shawnee Smith...
...lead singers, appeared ready to give himself whiplash. Then, as soon as the song finished, the technical difficulties began. A minute dragged into five, and no one in the band stepped forward to fill the relative silence with idle chit-chat or weird Canadian jokes. Talk about a momentum killer. The same misfortune seemed to recur after every number, so that the concert felt like a series of song islands suspended in a morass of re-tuning and feedback. But what songs! Forget Boeckner’s head-banging spectacle-mongering; if “I’ll Believe...
...movie that left adults cringing and young males drooling, “Saw” introduced the world to the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), a terminal cancer patient who places his morally aberrant victims in shocking, deadly situations for which extreme measures are needed to survive. Jigsaw intends to make society value the sanctity of life, believing those who live will have a greater appreciation for what they were wasting away. Amanda (Shawnee Smith, who reprises her role in the sequel), the former drug addict who once survived Jigsaw’s maniacal scheme, credits him with motivating...
...that young gays face daily. As the head of a nonprofit organization that operates a nationwide suicide-prevention help line for gay and questioning youth, I hear stories of difficulties every day. And although some gains have been made, the sad reality is that suicide is the No. 3 killer of teenagers, and gay youths are more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers...
Phoenix dropped out of school after ninth grade and finished his teens traveling in Latin America. When he returned to acting five years later, he earned raves as the mumbling killer in To Die For and an Oscar nod for his weaselly turn as Commodus in Gladiator. Walk the Line director James Mangold says both performances were seared into his memory. He noted that Phoenix looked like the young Johnny Cash, but he was more intrigued by another resemblance. "That incredible vulnerability and masculinity that James Dean had," says Mangold, "Joaq has the same thing. His face is complicated...