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...Evil Team. Along the way, there’s gratuitous violence involving soccer balls, trees and bread buns; spontaneous, off-key singing and dancing; and homoerotic consumption of raw eggs, all part of the offbeat Hong Kong style of humor. But there’s also the brilliantly choreographed mix of martial arts and soccer and a universal yet original message about the hope for integrating a modern world with the past. Could such a film ever appeal to American audiences? Perhaps not. But why don’t you go see for yourself...
...sufficiently strong and even-handed. Where there are exceptions—and there are—there are other avenues for exposure to alternate perspectives, and there are generally multiple outlets to air grievances. Professors rarely treat their students as pitchers to be filled up with the correct mix of red and blue ideas, but as human beings who deserve a clear explication of all relevant viewpoints. Universities should try to eliminate the problem of poor teaching and disengaged faculty—not this shallow question of whether professors are conservative or liberal...
Mike Nichol’s new film Closer is infused with this type of magical chemistry, and at times the potency of the alchemic mix threatens to make its world teeter off balance. With a screenplay by Patrick Marber, adapted from his play of the same name, the picture is a tone poem to both love and its darker side. Dan (Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman...
...even after 17 tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx?...
...replacing her band with a random mix of producers has not been kind to Gwen