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...Your reward for sitting through the logorrheic stretches of the movie is, first, a car crash - which, in the manner of Hong Kong action films, is shown as an instant replay, from four views - and then a long car chase. Here's the set-up: On a film shoot in Tennessee, a stuntwoman (played by Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's double on Kill Bill) hears that 1970 Dodge Challenger, just like the one in Vanishing Point, is for sale. She and her girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take...
...bigger plans,” and the book’s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant the set-up, Rich is most skillful in his dialogue. A jittery Abraham pleads to Isaac, “How about some Rocky Road? Chocolate? I’d get you some strawberry, but hey, your name’s Isaac, not Isaac-Marie—am I right? Ha! Seriously, though, if you want strawberry...
...wake of recent publicity toward campus mental health issues, I was shocked to see an illustration of suicide as a set-up to a punchline. The artist meant no offense, but his lack of awareness only demonstrates that in the fight to reduce the stigma of mental illness, we still have a long, long...
...When Jay-Z finally does arrive, he successfully anchors the song until Beyoncé brings it home with one last defiant turn on the dance floor. Unfortunately, the video sometimes falls flat. Technically, it moves too quickly between shots, leaving some scenes choppy and the viewer dizzy. The beginning set-up features Beyoncé lying suggestively in a pool, and doesn’t compliment the tempo of the song. Nor is it ever clear why Beyoncé would want to climb into the trunk of a Rolls Royce, as she does for a few awkward moments. Nevertheless...
...Here's the set-up. In 1980 a construction crew in the Jerusalem suburb of Talpiot chanced upon a first-century tomb, which are not uncommon in that city. The Israeli Antiquities Authority found 10 bone boxes there, and stored them in a warehouse. Some bore inscribed names: Jesus, son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene e Mara; Matthew; Judas, son of Jesus; and Jose. Each name with the exception of Mariamene seemed common to their period, and it was only in 1996 that the BBC made a film suggesting that. given the combination, it might be that family. The idea...