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...added one apiece to end the quarter.The Crimson remained in control when the second frame opened, as Tune, who led Harvard with two goals total, increased the advantage to 3-1. But the game would soon take a sharp turn. With 34 seconds left in the second quarter, Mike Looy netted a goal to end the half 3-2. That marked the beginning of a 5-0 run for Cal Baptist.The Lancers’ Jon Miller kept the goal under lock and key while Looy and Ryan Steiger added two tallies to the scoreboard.On the other side, sophomore Jay Connolly...
...this for a high concept? A professional hit man (Jan Decleir) is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's, but must still pursue one last bloody job. You can imagine what Hollywood might do with that idea. What you can't imagine is what Eric Van Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring of child vicious child abusers, whose members...
That's because the film, which took director and co-writer Eric Van Looy eight years to mount, so patiently and intelligently builds out from its gimmicky premise. To be sure, it contains more than enough colorfully staged capital crimes to satisfy its more bloodthirsty viewers, but those events take place within a densely layered plot and moral climate. The hired killer, Ledda (Jan Decleir), is a consummate and seemingly phlegmatic professional, now secretly shaken by the knowledge that his mental lights are dimming...
Beyond that, director Van Looy imparts a wonderful sense of a glum, dark place--Belgium--that we rarely if ever visit at the movies. The logic of his film, in its plotting and its emotions, is impeccable. And haunting in a way that few crime films ever are. --By Richard Schickel
...priest. Though the Vatican has been blamed for demanding Aristide's departure, Salesian officials in Rome insist that the Holy See was not involved. Instead, the decision came from within their order. "We advised Aristide time and time again to tone down his sermons," explains Belgian priest Luc Van Looy, a top-ranking Salesian. Van Looy explains that the Salesians are concerned for Aristide's personal safety but also want to halt his preaching of violence as an acceptable means of ending Haiti's injustices...