Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...misguided has the campaign against TV violence become? Imagine you are NBC, and you've mustered the gumption to do a TV movie that explores the issue of media violence. The plot concerns a pay-per-view TV network of the future that, in its desperation for viewers, decides to televise the execution of a convicted killer. The drama is a fierce indictment of TV's tabloid excesses and features as cynical a portrait of unscrupulous television executives as any movie since Network...
...just when you thought it was safe to take a nap, comes a third version. Body Snatchers, as the story is called this time, is smart and spooky. It cleverly twists the plot so the lonely hero battling the pods is now a plucky, skeptical teenage girl. And it expands on the theme of emotional isolation until it embraces, and then nearly annihilates, the whole postnuclear family...
...Dunster House Opera Society will perform Die Fledermaus, which includes Johann Strauss' famous waltzes, a mixed-up plot worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan and a cross-dressing prince who hosts a drunken ball. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. in the Dunster Dining Hall. Tickets are $5, $4 for residents...
With its trite plot and random character portrayals, "Romeo is Bleeding" is both an anemic thriller and a colorless black comedy...
This development really sets the story going, but the whodunnit plot, like all the other technical elements, pale in insignificance before the ineffable passion at the film's core. The performers, especially Webb and Andrews, are excellent. The script is fantastic, full of acerbic wit and deadpan humor. The cinematography is suitably noir, but punctuated by bursts of radiance. And the music--ahhh, the music--is like a lover blowing in one's ear. But what really counts in "Laura" is love--from tender affection to sweeping passion. Mark's love for Laura has a desperate edge to it; thinking...