Word: reels
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...endless reel in my mind now. A big boat is sinking; a starship is rising; an ex-stand-up is drawing $1 million per potty joke; and the studio magpies are eyeballing the receipts over Monday-morning cappuccino...
...Abraham said: 'unto his eldest servant of his house... Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear...'" In the future when Hollywood makes a biblical or Roman epic, it might include a scene of a man testifying in the authentic manner...a reel grabber. TOM GILL North Beach...
...large steel cabinet. Inside are microfilmed lists of Ohio Civil War regiments. Konecny sits at one of the 97 viewing stations and within a few minutes finds a faded entry showing that Solomon Seif served as a private in Company I of the 136th Infantry. From a second reel about Company I, she learns that as a 20-year-old farmer, he enlisted for 100 days in 1864, shortly before the war ended, and in 1885 he applied for a pension as an invalid...
...chases and gunplay don't work as well as the character comedy does. The movie has so many different set pieces that it sometimes looks like Liman's demo reel. And all right, you've seen these elements before--but rarely so engagingly assembled. With its three-part structure framing a story of drugs and smart talk, but also with a heart so understanding that it lets nobody die, Go is a prime example of Tarantino cute: pup fiction...
...owners, please don't buy that leash-on-a-reel thing that takes up 40 ft. of sidewalk. Save yourself some money: let your dog run free and use a large stick to trip people with instead. And why do you get offended when I refer to your dog as "it"? Was I supposed to be checking out its genitals the whole time? Or am I just supposed to get some kind of feminine vibe from your bulldog's strut...