Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know L.A. Confidential has ended when it is both daytime and not raining. In a fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in '50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russel Crow turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this...
...post-WWI London, the movie follows Clarissa Dalloway as she goes about her preparations for a party she is to give that evening. Apart from the jarring and somewhat dislocating opening, the film remains remarkably faithful to the book. Towards the end, the movie lapses almost completely into voice-over, which eventually becomes rather irritating. This is, however, no fault of the actors, who are probably the best thing about the film. Vanessa Redgrave is Vanessa Redgrave and, as the lynchpin of the story, holds center stage with her usual poise. There's much to admire about this adaptation...
...Coens also poke lots of gentle, knowing fun at the bowling alley which forms the backdrop for many funny scenes. Several wildly imaginative dream sequences use bowling motifs in unexpected ways: in one dream the camera takes the somewhat woozy point of view of a rolling bowling ball, and later Saddam Hussein rents out bowling shoes (it's the early '90s, remember...
...cover images for Wet Wet Wet's latest album,10, conform somewhat humorously to this latter images, shamelessly contradicting the lively spirit of the music they introduce. The Scottish foursome look mad and bad, sporting black threads and dour expressions. But their songs are upbeat melodies, ranging from the catchy to the soothing, the brisk to the beautiful...
...going to gethit in the air and maintaining focus on thebasket," said the 6'2 Folkl. "And as much as I kidabout it, I think it has a lot to do with being soclose to the basket. I feel that probably 50 to 60percent of my shots are somewhat uncontestedlay...