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...fact, the film even takes a stab at Orwellian allegory to appeal to mature viewers, presenting scrap metal plants resembling hell, eugenic overtones of destroying the “rusty” robots, and depictions of corporate greed. However, there’s nothing morally provocative or intellectual about the film; it’s just uninteresting to adults and frightening to children. And once one of those emotionally unstable midgets start crying, they...
...first stab at the horror genre, however, Eisenberg seems to have lost his way—if not by his own volition. He certainly claims to have tried his best to prepare; “I watched a lot of Teen Wolf…A lot of movies to see the spirit [of the werewolf genre]…A lot of the preparation was more physical...
Rubin’s joke took a stab at Summers’ overactive sense of pride, in other words, making fun of his tendency to assert intellectual dominance over his superiors...
Jeffrey Cruikshank, a writer for over 20 years, is well-recognized for his works of non-fiction, including a history of Harvard Business School released earlier this month, but as he noted in a recent interview, Murder at the B-School is his first stab at fiction...
...DIED. ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, 75, leading Polish surrealist painter; from multiple stab wounds; at his home in Warsaw. Renowned for his disturbing depictions of death and decay, Beksinski was also a prolific photographer and in recent years expanded his work to include computer graphics, producing unsettling images of monstrous, disembodied faces. Two teenage relatives of the artist's longtime aide have been arrested and charged in the murder...