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That thesis might not be embraced by the tens of thousands swept away by the Indonesian tsunami, or the like number displaced by Katrina. But Ponyo, which the Disney Company will release in the States next year, is a parable for children, and they're entitled to the gift of...
Figures like Jackson and Wright have invested a lifetime in the politics of black identity. Obama's success, whether it culminates in the White House or not, signals the passing of their era. So it is no wonder that younger voters have been key to his candidacy. Having grown up...
The new movie doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the early, funny films. But, like Annie Hall and Manhattan, it is about people whose jobs are incidental to their real vocations of falling in love and messing things up. With seven major characters...
During the 1980s, Xinjiang militants routinely targeted police stations, military bases and similar targets, but such attacks stopped in the 1990s as Chinese control of the region solidified and was extended down to the village level. Bequelin, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the separatist movement in Xinjiang, says the...
It's possible that to an old pro like Stiller, making an audience laugh is easy, too easy. The bigger challenge is not to underline the humor but to undermine it--to illustrate, within the form of a movie spoof, a thesis on the mechanics of comedy creation. Those opening...