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...earth, a production of dust and blood and stone. In the jolting opening scene, the villainous Fire-wind's (Sun Hong-lei) army mows through an innocent town with all the subtlety of a chain saw. Dressed like members of some death-metal rock band, complete with pale white makeup and black leather body armor, the bad guys decapitate and dismember with glee, wielding savage hooks and spears. Tsui's camera lingers on slashed throats and chopped hands twitching in the dirt. Even the good guys use massive medieval swords with serrated edges, weapons that seem better suited to Conan...
...complexities of being 13 pale when compared with those of being 75. The passing of years may well improve their lives, but not so likely ours...
...while on a research trip with another man. As the camera holds on him, searching for a reaction, Fiennes doesn't conjure up a rage or a gasp. He doesn't gush a stream of tears or obscenities. He moves hardly at all. Yet alert viewers will see his pale face turn a shade ashen. They will watch his spirit sink as he struggles to retain propriety. Somehow a symphony of grief, suspicion and copelessness plays lightly on his sharp, elegant features. "You can see what he's thinking, on his face," says Rachel Weisz, who plays Tessa with...
...decided to hotfoot it back to hospital," she says. The Kennas have been married for 58 years, and still live in the red-roofed house that locals in Kenna's home town of Hamilton, in Victoria's western wool district, built for them when he returned in 1946. The pale gums and sheep fields were just the same, but the VC changed Kenna's life for good. In between raising four children and being town hall curator for 34 years, he's met royalty, traveled the world for reunions and ceremonies, led Anzac Day marches, given countless talks...
Many have claimed that Depp is channeling Wacko Jacko—a charge Depp rightly denies. Michael Jackson’s recent media attention—coupled with Depp’s playing a pale, effeminately voiced, grown man with father issues, living in a make-believe world—probably fueled the comparison. But the similarities stop there...