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...establish themselves with believable and entertaining performances. Their talent and natural attitudes further set the film apart from the many others that share similar plots. Costanzo effectively conveys the angst that Ryan feels without taking his character too seriously. He captures Ryan’s aloof nature in a manner that fits so well with Fox’s direction style and the relaxed tone of the script. You can’t help but become invested in the success of Ryan and Ming’s courtship, rooting for them even when Coupland’s script fights their...
...seeing The Matrix. The Paducah killings were supposed to have been triggered by The Basketball Diaries. Another movie is now raising questions in the Virginia Tech massacre - because the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, made a photo in which he looks fierce and holds a raised hammer, in a manner similar to a shot in Park Chan-Wook's 2003 film Oldboy. Both Cho and the film are originally from South Korea. Both have undergone Americanization: Cho by moving to the U.S. when he was a kid, Oldboy by getting remade as a Hollywood movie that, last I heard...
...seeing The Matrix. The Paducah killings were supposed to have been triggered by The Basketball Diaries. Another movie is now raising questions in the Virginia Tech massacre - because the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, made a photo in which he looks fierce and holds a raised hammer, in a manner similar to a shot in Park Chan-Wook's 2003 film Oldboy. Both Cho and the film are originally from South Korea. Both have undergone Americanization: Cho by moving to the U.S. when he was a kid, Oldboy by getting remade as a Hollywood movie that, last I heard...
...faculty have an important stake in ensuring that undergraduate disciplinary matters are handled in a fair manner,” Losick said...
...paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic psychiatrist Neil Kaye, a faculty member at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia...