Word: theming
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...helmed Order of the Phoenix, concoct a potent brew of horror and romance, in which the supercool special effects - notably a swoopy-cam ride with the Death Eaters as they soar over London's monuments and through its creepiest streets - never obscure a commitment to the book's central theme. True to Rowling's portrayal of the teen experience, the film is almost wholly occupied with school: the business of getting good grades (sometimes by cheating) and the influence of inspiring or maleficent teachers. Plus, of course, sex. (Read about the phenomenon of wizard rock...
...gets fired when he chooses to save a young patient's life before treating a hospital board member. He takes a job as a "concierge doctor" to rich summer people in New York's Hamptons, treating everything from hemophilia to deflated breast implants. It's fluff, but with a theme of modern medical feudalism: top docs attending the richest like courtiers. If your hospital waiting room has cable, watch it sometime...
...China's approach to the region is captured in a recent plan to bulldoze much of Kashgar's historic Old City - an atmospheric, millennia-old warren of mosques and elaborate mud-brick houses - and replace it with a tourist-oriented theme park version, resettling its Uighur population (who were not consulted) in "modern" housing miles away from the city...
...these first minutes, The Hurt Locker sets its theme and tactics. Its heroes are brave soldiers, sanitation men in a place where the detritus is deadly, and on every mission they risk their lives to save those of a people they may not like and probably don't understand. The opening also tells viewers to proceed warily. At one moment they'll be watching in their seats; then, without warning, it's duck and cover...
...action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete or a master serial killer--anyway, some gifted obsessive. A quote from Iraq expert Chris Hedges that opens the film reads, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield. Bigelow and Boal aren't after that. They're saying that, in such an infernal peacekeeping operation, the Army needs guys like James...