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...game’s first possession downfield to open the scoring on a 35-yard Matt Schindel field goal. But then things started to get messy. On the Crimson’s next possession, Harvard drove into Princeton territory before a fourth-and-20 situation sent junior punter Mike King out on the field with a chance to pin the Tigers deep. But junior Erik Grimm’s snap flew a good two feet over King’s head as he tried in vain to get a hand on the ball. It bounced behind him past midfield where...
...defense shut out the Tigers for the rest of the game, allowing just 23 net rushing yards, blocking a punt and cutting off a potential Princeton scoring drive when junior Mike Finch intercepted the ball at the goal line. Following that play, Dawson broke for his 80-yard run to cap the Crimson scoring and officially bump Princeton from the ranks of Ivy unbeatens. Harvard and Penn, which beat Yale 17-7, both remain undefeated at 3-0 in the league...
...excellent performances. The café and its environs swarm with varied forms of lowlives, all of which are vividly and entertainingly portrayed. The drunks (Daniel R. Pecci ’08 and the particularly good Simon N. Nicholas) mingle with hustlers (Liam R. Martin ’06, Mike G. Jordan ’08, Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, the admirably sleazy and slick Rob D. Salas ’08 and Rupak Bhattacharya ’05, who delivers a poorly-written monologue very well), prostitutes (Alexandra C. Palma ’08 and Carla...
Wait a minute. This is a Pixar cartoon? Instead of toys, bugs, monsters or funny fish, we get a midlife crisis and, in the first half-hour, enough domestic strife to fill a Mike Leigh film. But yes, this is Pixar, the studio that pretty much invented and perfected computer-animation entertainment, with such spectacular success that it wiped out the traditional approach that its distribution partner, Disney, had virtually patented. (The two animation titans have fallen into a rancorous dispute that's likely to end with Pixar's boss, Steve Jobs, taking the company elsewhere...
This is, to put it mildly, unlikely material from which to fashion a near great movie. But writer-director Mike Leigh's Vera Drake is just such a film. He's famously a realist (Life Is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies) and never more so than in this film. He simply recounts the story with unblinking objectivity. The almost comic cluelessness of Vera's family, the phlegmatic spirit of the policemen processing her case, the attitudes of her patients, ranging from the hysterical to the cool--they are all there. Yet there's nothing forced or movieish in Leigh's treatment...