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...very solid genre filmmaking to disarm an audience's disbelief. Westerns, as we all know, are a disused movie form, and part of this film's appeal lies simply in returning us to the thrilling days of yesteryear, to the beauty of spare narrative played out in a stark landscape. 3:10 is, of course, a remake of the 1958 movie that starred Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, which was, in my opinion, not as good as a lot of people thought, mostly because the mumbly Ford could only play one note at a time, which meant he erred more...
...warming up. George W. must like what he hears. Sarkozy accuses Putin's Russia of a "certain brutality," and he castigates Beijing for "transforming its insatiable search for raw materials into a strategy of control." Nobody sounds tougher on Iran. If sanctions fail, the choice is stark: "an Iranian bomb, or the bombing of Iran...
...Despite the crowds of industry, press and movie lovers who descend on it, Toronto manages to remain a working city during the festival. This is in stark contrast to the resort towns the other major festivals swallow whole. When festival goers bundle up to make their way down Main Street in Park City, Utah, during Sundance in January, they're not just protecting against the cold, but also against the teeming horde in search of a hot cup of coffee in one of Park City's crowded cafés. Toronto, with its easy public transportation, crisp weather and metropolis...
...mission to counter prejudice and improve race relations. Hill, who is white, led a grass-roots campaign to defeat David Duke, the former Klansman who made it into a runoff in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race; racial tensions in the aftermath of Katrina, Hill says, are even more stark than those that surfaced during that watershed event...
Much of what Ben Bernanke spends his days doing oscillates between the incomprehensibly arcane and the unspeakably dull. Lately, though, the Federal Reserve chairman has a stark, even exciting task at hand. He's been imitating Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life and trying to halt a bank...