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...problems with “Australia” wouldn’t be so noticeable if the movie weren’t so self-aware. Just as “Moulin Rouge” was a musical about musicals, “Australia” starts out as a sort of meta-epic, with tons of fast shots, wacky henchmen in bar fights, and an overly precious voice-over from Nullah. The opening moves fast and humorously; Luhrmann knows he is crafting an epic and wants the audience to know it too. As Lady Ashley herself comments...
...already built cells that can count, remember, [and] do memory storage, but they were sort of ‘toy’ systems,” Silver said. “We were sitting around asking ‘what can we really do that can change the world?’ and we decided to bite the bullet and work on bio-engineering...
...Weezy claim in “Last of a Dying Breed?” Or is the most important message Spike Lee’s: that everyone’s been “sleeping for too long?” Then again, perhaps this was just the sort of thought-provoking confusion Ludacris was aiming for in his “Theater of the Mind.” —Reviewer Meredith S. Steuer can be reached at msteuer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Quantum of Solace,” the plot centers on the hot topic of environmentalism. In this case, the bad guy tries to manipulate environmental leaders to turn the planet’s trash surplus into personal profit. You might think that these elements would develop into some sort of political commentary, but you’d be wrong. The acting may be nugatory and the storyline skeletal, but the film does provide a bare framework for car chases and fights. The action sequences are wittily choreographed, if hokey at times. There are quite a few good explosions, which might...
...striking real-life indication of how far consumer culture has gone astray. As Joe Priester, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, suggested, we may attribute the homicidal mania of the Wal-Mart shoppers in question to “a sort of fear and panic of not having enough.” How far are we willing to let this acquisitive lust take us? Damour’s death is emblematic of the invisible price tag of the consumerism in which we so readily and thoughtlessly participate...