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...bankable - young star, Samantha Morton (Minority Report). It has a respectable budget, $6 million, and a hip provenance: it's based on Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel, which was part of a Scottish literary charge that also yielded Irving Welsh's Trainspotting - and that became an international smash-hit movie. And if any further proof were needed that Morvern Callar isn't destined to be just another much-lauded "little film," it wasn't even shortlisted this year at Cannes. Ramsay's response to the Cannes disappointment was, she says, "a bit mad": she got married. An hour before...
...community of Smash devotees at Harvard is a small and fiercely competitive one. Smash, of course, is Super Smash Bros., a best-selling multiplayer Nintendo 64 game. Not content simply to play among roommates and friends, William O. Gallery ’04 and Peter F. Epstein ’04 helped organize a Smash tournament last Saturday to award Smash-derived bragging rights to one smasher. “We had three groups of people that all claimed they were the best Smash players in the school and we all wanted to settle the score,” Epstein...
...Smash, released for Nintendo 64 in 1999, pits well-known characters from a variety of classic Nintendo games against each other in a free-for-all melee. Breaking with standard Nintendo narrative form, Luigi uppercuts Kirby, who in turn spiral-kicks Mario. Up to four human competitors can man the controls in this gruesome battle...
Often, and particularly under the influence of alcohol, the line between Smash and real life can be blurred, as players take out their gaming failures by destroying controllers, tossing chairs against walls and occasionally physically assaulting their opponents. But on Saturday, everyone’s mind was on victory—the keg in the corner of the room remained untapped until the last kill...
...Hoey, who brought his own game controller with him to the tournament, his masterful wrangling of Kirby to take the Harvard Smash Bros. title was something to be proud of. Says the champion: “I’m glad that all my hard work at Harvard has finally paid...