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...PIGEON: Excretorily expressive fowl...
...deals with the law. Over the past year, 270 so-called pentiti provided unprecedented details of the Mob's workings and helped investigators tighten the net around its chief. According to some sources, the tip that led to Riina's arrest came from at least one such stool pigeon who put more faith in the authorities' promises than in Riina's forgiveness...
...that Kevin's final confrontation with the crooks -- this time he booby-traps a brownstone that is undergoing renovation -- lacks the bestartling hilarity of his previous battle with them. It may be that his bonding with a homeless pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) in Central Park is a touch too Christmasy. But it is a good-hearted excess. And that's the great thing about Home Alone 2. It is going to make a ton of money, but you never feel that's the only reason it was made. It respects itself and it respects us, and there's no reason...
...stands out in its treatment of the ethical issues surrounding violent crime, but also falls solidly into the "thriller" genre. Similarities to "Silence of the Lambs" are most notable. In a scene strikingly reminiscent of Hannibal's grotesque escape, Reece ruthlessly murders his guards and flees. Like a homing pigeon, he heads straight for the neighborhood Catholic church, where he murders its priest in one of the only true bloody, gasp-and-scream moments of the film, and proceeds to drink the Father's blood from the Communion cup. Like Hannibal, Reece may be coming to have you for dinner...
...essay lays bare how Madonna's supposedly taboo-breaking movie pigeon-holed these groups into lifeless stereotypes. Shedding a harsh light on the pop goddess, hooks reveals how much of Madonna's act is the "same old nonsense" in a pointy...