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...times a whimsical depiction of little wars (neighbors tossing garbage on each other's lawns), the movie escalates to fire bombs in residences and comic battles at Israeli checkpoints. A balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats above the soldiers; a Palestinian ninja babe beats the enemy with her Yeoh-worthy maneuvers. With its smart humor, as dry as the Negev, this is a film that might raise a chuckle even from Ariel Sharon. Give irony a chance...
...voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever Palestinian film in competition: Elia Suleiman's monstrously witty Divine Intervention, in which a balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats across an Israeli military checkpoint, and a Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki...
...Back in the Game”) and traditional boom-bap (the DJ Premier-esque “Rules”). It’s an admirable try and not without its high points. These include the sounds of a widescreen street battle that open the album, the positively deadly ninja star whizzing by your head in “Radioactive,” and a wonderfully ambiguous verse from Ghostface Killah (“America / Together we stand, divided we fall / Mr. Bush sit down, I’m in charge of the war!”). It could either...
...ideas and conceits can be surprisingly colorful. Questions about Han Solo, Thundercats and the meaning of life all get equal time at his table, and he’s as at ease wrangling a phone number out of a pretty young math student as he is at battling a ninja...
Their kidnappers were supposed to be the "good guys," rescuing Homer and his brother from drug-induced squalor and neglect. Instead of entering the realm of Ninja Turtles and Popsicles, however, Homer went through a childhood of dependency-court hearings, social workers and frayed relationships. Nobody preserved his family unit. For the past 15 years he has been in foster care...