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...Butler (Cheadle) and Casanova “Caz” Phillips (Snipes) are interwoven in the film. Butler is an undercover narcotics cop in the projects, who has risen to the top of the business over the past few years. However, when Phillips, Butler’s old prison buddy and formerly powerful drug dealer, gets released from incarceration, problems arise. Cheadle is as charismatic as ever, endowing his character with the most emotion and authentic passion in the entire film. Snipes, while not as strong as Cheadle, also successfully expresses the fear and panic of his character...
...Lerner’s third book of poetry, stands out in its reactionary innovation. “Mean Free Path” is an experiment aiming for the reconstruction, not dismantlement, of poetic forms. Lerner’s book invents a new form as recognizable and systematic as the old ones...
...buying tickets for shows over a year away, internalizing the band’s amusing nonchalance toward the whole event in countless interviews, and, just last week, watching shaky handheld videos of the first reunion shows half a world away in New Zealand and Australia. Some signs of old age emerged—guitarist Scott Kannberg revealed on his blog that at their first show back, frontman Stephen Malkmus played “Here” instead of “The Hexx” because he didn’t have his glasses on?...
It’s a sunny day. A couple of kids are hanging out, playing around with some old shopping carts they found lying around. And that’s when it happens. Students come streaming out of the nearby school in a state of shock. One of their teachers has opened fire during an assembly, killing three students and one teacher. The scene cuts to the hard-boiled policewoman whose job it is to sort out the mess. This simple exposition could be the beginning of any of the popular crime dramas shown almost constantly on television...
...story of “Terribly Happy” is based on real life events from Jepsen’s life and childhood: “It’s really from an 11 year-old boy’s perspective. The dysfunctional family in our film has really existed. And I think it’s a good thing for people who had a trauma and a deep, deep secret that they can’t bear living with, to get that story told...