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...glosses over exposition in Chamber—making the first film necessary viewing—and so is able to put more meat into each frame now that he’s afforded the luxury of focusing solely on plot. Virtually every major event makes it from page to screen, but the effort never feels like a cursory treatment. Quite to the contrary—it is a more fully realized, weighty and compelling tale...
...have a secret weapon for the bus ride: the first Harry Potter book tucked safely under my arm. Though I’ve read it before, the movie is coming out soon and I want to refresh my Potter savvy before I see it on the big screen. I spend the next few hours on the bus as warm as if I’ve had a glass of Butterbeer (Harry’s favorite drink) at a Quidditch (the official sport of witches) match. Harry has done it again. I decide to re-read the entire series...
...read on even if you?re not near Manhattan. (And be sure to read Grady Hendrix?s program notes, each one a supercharged essay on the film in question.) But at a time when most U.S. Chinatown theaters have closed, it?s worth seeing these films on the big screen, with an audience juiced for a communal thrill. That?s the best way to rekindle the grand old days of Hong Kong horror...
...waist, his top half still writhing after the severance. The last victim is buried to the neck, his scalp carved open at the top and a steaming caustic poured into it. He writhes in pain and explodes naked from the earth as the film?s title flashes on the screen. It?s like ?Jackass? in Cantonese, but faster, funnier, and with a little craft up its Merlin sleeve: an efficient mood-stoker...
...glosses over exposition in Chamber—making the first film necessary viewing—and so is able to put more meat into each frame now that he’s afforded the luxury of focusing solely on plot. Virtually every major event makes it from page to screen, but the effort never feels like a cursory treatment. Quite to the contrary—it is a more fully realized, weighty and compelling tale...