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...capable direction of Alfonso Cuaron, who could probably turn See Spot Run into a haunting examination of the human soul with vague sexual undertones. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has been apparently sitting on the shelf for some time which immediately sends up warning signals, but the outlandish, late ’30s detective comic visuals in the trailer suggest a full realization of the powers of CGI technology. A safer bet will be Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset, a continuation of the Before Sunrise story nine years after Jesse and Celine first meet on that...
...broadcaster sbs, to the cerebral palsy of Cousin (1998) and asthmatic fits of Brother (1999). But more often than not, they don't. "When I was older, my auntie drank rat poison and died," says the narrator of Uncle, which sets the tone in the Elliot oeuvre for outlandish deaths. As for the carnage in Krumpet, Harvie's parents are found frozen naked on their bike, Dr. Angela Greystane dies horribly from emphysema, the cancer-ward nurse Harvie marries collapses from a brain clot, fellow retiree Wilma overdoses on morphine - and that's not counting the animals. "Yeah...
...Dream at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) will come to a quiet close. This is characteristic of the production, which has been reluctant to promote itself. And it is not likely to be regarded in the same formidable category as some of the company’s more outlandish and controversial Shakespeare productions of the past decade—including Andrei Serban’s Merchant of Venice, which portrayed Shylock as a lip-smacking comic villain, and Ron Daniel’s complete Henry IV, with motorcycling guards and a tavern strung with Christmas lights...
...Hillary, Roger Bannister, the Goons. The weekly radio show starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers defined silly comedy for postwar England, influenced the Beatles and Monty Python, and made me laugh when I listened to the shows on CD last year for a column on Sellers. Puns, outlandish narrative detours and other foolery are wildly evident in Milligan?s scripts. In the ?Ill Met by Goonlight? episode, the Goons land on Crete. Sellers: ?Ooh, this beach is hard.? Secombe: ?Then we must be on con-Crete!? They...
...presence is dynamic and imposing, as he moves and bends himself to the whim of his music, and chats with the crowd in his thick accent. The other members of the band seem content to let Andrew be the focus of the group and, despite drummer Gross’ outlandish costume, they avoid the live show’s spotlight...