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...Director prize to Haneke, and snubbed Cronenberg completely. The King isn't in their class, but it gets star heft from Mexican hottie Gael García Bernal. He plays a quietly intense young man named Elvis who insinuates himself into his long-absent father's devoutly Christian family: righteous wife (Laura Harring), rebellious son (Paul Dano) and a daughter (Pell James) searching for love, divine or carnal. The movie's fuse is far too long, but there is an explosion, when The King rips off its mask of observational drama to reveal itself as a monster movie with gore...
Vegetables” stirred up righteous anger only to be subsumed a few years later by the art-punk Dadaisms of Wire’s “Chairs Missing,” underground hip hop today is on the verge of a revolution in subject matter, form and overarching aesthetics...
Vegetables” stirred up righteous anger only to be subsumed a few years later by the art-punk Dadaisms of Wire’s “Chairs Missing,” underground hip hop today is on the verge of a revolution in subject matter, form and overarching aesthetics...
...Testament that literally prohibits the acts used as proxy for homosexuality, like “fornication.” Yet there is much that points out the fact that we are all sinners—from St. Paul in Romans 3:10, “There is none righteous, no, not one”—and that judgment of our sins belongs to God, literally. Most famously there are Jesus’ words in John 8:7: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...
...probably serves everyone right that this one is the pits. Stanley White (Mickey Rourke, an impish altar-boy type with what looks like chalk dust in his hair to make him look middle-aged) is another of Cimino's righteous madmen, a police captain brought in to clean up New York City's Chinatown. It is an uphill battle, against inscrutable thugs, a silky tong lord (John Lone), a TV reporter (the incompetent actress Ariane) and preposterous dialogue by Cimino and Oliver Stone. Soporific when it is not offensive, Year of the Dragon may some day engender a confessional memoir...