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...friendly and compulsively helpful, especially a garage mechanic (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) who is clearly, clumsily smitten by Shin-ae. She needs all the help she can get when another tragedy befalls her. She joins a Christian fellowship and indulges the mechanic's devotion. But her mind and spirit spiral into disarray as her behavior becomes more destructive and self-destructive...
...when vetting prospective house masters, careful attention should be paid to how effectively candidates can perform the important social tasks that they must fulfill in order to give house life a more familial feel than dorm life at any other College—promoting a unique and positive House spirit and house life. Candidates’ eminence as professors should be of secondary import: there are a lot of famous professors who would be honored to be named House masters, but only those who can be good House masters should earn the title...
...grant that the movie is indebted to dozens of previous psychological thrillers, from Psycho and The Haunting (a tingly scene where Laura feels someone snuggle into her bed, thinks its Carlos, then is shocked to see him enter the room), from the Spanish Spirit of the Beehive to Del Toro's own The Devil's Backbone. And there are moments when plausibility takes a back seat to the need to make Laura stay one or two more nights in the condemned manor - when she does things because, well, because it's a scary movie. But there will be other moments...
...Brien ’07, second-in-command for Quincy, the members of the three war councils became good friends. “None of us really wanted to back-stab the other. It was that simple,” he said. Participants said the game also built spirit within individual Houses. “I love the fact that we rose out of the ashes—a lot of people expected us to die within a few turns,” said Yomari Chavez ’07, a member of the Leverett war council...
...here, and I don't think I'll be sliding Bug into my DVD player on a regular basis in the future. But still, there is a conviction here that (a) transcends any attempt to categorize the film generically and (b) challenges the lax, we're-just-kidding-around spirit of most American movies (see, or rather don't see Grindhouse, for example). Like it or not, Bug takes you deep into the realm of abnormal psychology. Like it or not, it is a serious movie, very possibly Friedkin's best. In any case, it almost literally itched this reviewer...