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...dizziness, skin rashes and vomiting are part of his daily routine. Ape, as Alfred's friends call him, works in a processing unit like Femmy's. He has difficulty just holding a fork or spoon in his hands, which tremble as he stretches them out in front of his taut, muscular frame. His wife, who lives with their daughter on the island of Sangir, north of Manado, has asked him to find other work, but the money is too good to give up. To earn more, he even works shifts in the mines themselves. "Sometimes I feel that...
...Crossing Jordan." Jill Hennessy plays a feisty coroner likened, as probably half the female drama characters this upfront season will be, to Erin Brockovich. It's hard to judge crime dramas by trailers (and all NBC's new dramas are crime dramas) - they all look simultaneously taut and indistinguishable with their quick-cutting and explosive soundtracks. Problem: Everyone will think it's actually "Gideon's Crossing...
...does not watch such films for the plot or the characterization, but for the action and the visuals. And these are treasures that Skyline Cruisers delivers in spades. The initial raid to steal the cancer drug is taut and perfectly paced. Tension is present in every drama-drenched second as Mac and company infiltrate the building utilizing incredible high-tech devices. Yip manages to make all this techno-wizardry compelling rather than obtuse or obnoxious. Multi-hued shades of lighting, smooth-as-butter tracking shots, and perfectly filmed set-ups make the break-in a visual palette of wonders, easily...
...filmmaker, Robert Rodriguez has a kind of dazzling, turbo-charged vitality that is only enhanced by the flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated...
...bathrobe, lumbering down his driveway to get the morning paper. The news is about him: a bloody turf war over the Mafia-run garbage-trucking business. The garbage war, we discover, is the new target of the long-running FBI investigation against him, and the Feds spend the taut first episode trying to plant a bug in Tony's basement - the one place in his house where he talks business - to the sound of the "Peter Gunn" theme mixed with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" (no TV series uses its soundtrack more wryly and effectively...