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...Wait a minute, Ashley,” Burke interjected, “What kind of humanitarian would subject people to ‘The Mothman Prophecies?’” referring to Gere’s 2002 supernatural thriller, which received lukewarm reviews...
...Wait a minute, Ashley,” Burke interjected, “What kind of humanitarian would subject people to ‘The Mothman Prophecies?’” referring to Gere’s 2002 supernatural thriller, which received lukewarm reviews...
...former columnist for the Times, Geist suggests a mix of Kuralt, Joe Mitchell and the ?Daily Show? traveling circus. A copy of the Jack Barth-Ken Smith classic ?Roadside America? in his back pocket, he visits the Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game...
...them, they look like...well...giant moths. Hence, the title The Mothman Prophecies. Their business is to warn the world of impending disasters. The possibility that their auguries may be of the self-fulfilling variety--that they may actually cause the chaos they predict--hovers unspoken as we watch director Mark Pellington's entertainingly eerie film...
...climax. Actually it plays more like a good X-Files episode--full of plausible details placed in the service of paranormal (not to say paranoid) whoppers. But director Pellington's touch is light and flickering, and his actors are solid and persuasive. If you let yourself go with The Mothman Prophecies, it is--in its lumpen, serious way--sort...