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...plot of the movie centers on the character played by Uma Thurman, a nameless woman known only as The Bride, who awakes from a coma four years after she is nearly assassinated at her wedding party by an elite fighting force called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS). Once a part of this group, The Bride—whose DiVAS code name was Black Mamba—sets out now on a mission of revenge, tracking down all of her former compatriots, each of whom is also code-named after a venomous serpent. Her final target, as the title...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

Rather than having characters who are slaves to the narrative, he creates moments that are reflections of real people. The film is not easy to pin down with a plot summary or character descriptions; suffice it to say that it deals with issues of mourning, loneliness and alienation. Lee is a watch vendor fixated by a woman he meets briefly (and played extraordinarily realistically by Chiang Shiang-Chyi); she is on her way to Paris and wants to buy the watch off his wrist...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Liang Captures Urban Alienation | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

...after Auschwitz near Nablus;” and on and on. I have consulted the relevant secondary literature and the leading authorities on the mufti and the Nazi holocaust, but couldn’t find scholarly support for any of these fantastic claims. Similarly, Dershowitz extensively details an alleged plot in which “terrorist operatives” rape Palestinian women to recruit them as suicide bombers. However, he never explains why they would need to do so when the number of Palestinian women volunteering for suicide attacks already exceeds the number of planned missions. Turning to his endnote...

Author: By Norman G. Finkelstein, | Title: Finkelstein Proclaims 'The Glove Does Fit' | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

Determined to land a spot in the festival, Bezreh started over. “I would just meditate and then I would take a nap,” she says of her time drafting the plot. And then one day it happened. “The song came to me in the shower. I wrote the song in about twenty minutes.” She finally had the basis for a viable porn musical...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Naughty Garden | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...Anthony Wong's borderline-rogue police inspector; and Eric Tsang's joyful triad tough, who goes from being a naive mid-level criminal to a malevolent little (and powerful) toad, willing to whack any and all enemies. Given room to act by a story that stresses character rather than plot, both add depth to their memorable performances in the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Affair to Remember | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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