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...book’s three film adaptations, all which were made before she was born, but that is beside the point. What is truly odd about this reference is that a character in this movie would acknowledge the very story from which it so blatantly steals many of its plot points...
However, as key elements of the plot are revealed, Identity regrettably shifts from a perfectly functional thriller to a film desperately striving to convey some lofty message about its title theme. Suddenly, the audience is expected to believe a movie that has just demonstrated some of the more gruesome ways to execute a human being is about something of significance...
...funniest musicals of all time. Inspired by Plautus’s “The Menaechmi,” which was presented by the Harvard Classical Club last month, “Forum” goes back to the very start of drama to utterly disparage it. The plot is simple: a slave seeking his freedom helps his young master get the girl of his dreams. Then a courtesan house, a bloodthirsty tyrant, Rome’s version of Mr. Magoo and a slew of other characters get thrown into the mix, resulting in a laugh-fest with hints...
...anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...weeks ago, Harvard bid $75 million to buy the land—an industrial plot crossed by railroads and cut by the Turnpike—from its current owner, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which is low on funds after pouring billions into...