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Then there's Ice Age 3 in 3D out next summer. What I love about Ice Age unlike other animation that is so concept-driven and plot-driven is that they try to be like the old Chuck Jones and Fritz Lang. It's the independent film version of animation. They let character moments and little beats play out for the sake of letting them play out and then they come back to the story, which is so hard to do. My kids have two little parts in the new one and they're so proud of it. Read...
...them in the 37 countries where it has been translated - plenty of lubriciously rendered romps in the hay with a woman in her mid-30s and an eager young man in his mid-teens. Stephen Daldry's film, written by David Hare, is faithful both to the novel's plot and to its higher aspirations. This is not an entirely good thing. On the other hand - and somewhat surprisingly - it is not an entirely bad thing...
Even if you have not read the book, you're probably familiar with the plot. A 15-year-old lad named Michael Berg (David Kross, giving a splendidly modulated performance of teen angst, sexuality and intellectual aspiration) falls ill in the entrance of an apartment building in 1950s Germany. He is rescued by an attractive working-class woman named Hanna (Kate Winslet in a performance that heartbreakingly combines passivity and anger) who arranges his return home. When he comes back to thank her for her aid, they embark upon a heated sexual relationship, which, in due course, she abruptly breaks...
...Plot twists ensue. Anatoly and Florence leave together for Budapest, where Anatoly faces Freddie once again and Florence revisits her scarring childhood. There are “gasp” moments. Anatoly’s wife Svetlana (Victoria J. Benjamin ’12) decides not to wait idly in Russia while her husband embarks on an affair and instead pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point...
...celebrity creators. Penned by Tim Rice, with music from Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, two former members of Abba, the musical often features an off-key score to lend the songs a foreboding tone. This score does little to compensate for the musical’s flimsy plot. Although the sinister score may give atmosphere to the setting, it does little to enliven the scenes of the musical...