Word: throwback
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...creaky 50, and Jet Li doesn't work much anymore. The genre needs another hero, and Jaa (Thai name: Phanom Yeerum) is the fellow to fill the void. He's young--28--and good-looking, with a quiet élan to match his athletic skill. He's also a throwback to kung-fu film's early days, when stars and stunt men alike took a licking and kept on kicking. Ong-Bak has no crouching, no hiding, no wires, no pixel-perfected stunts. Like Chan's early epics, it convinces you that the mayhem is real, that the star...
Yanukovych, 54, has made no secret of his pro-Moscow leanings. Just as important, Ukraine's business and political élites have flourished in one of the world's most corrupt economies, and they trust that he won't rock the boat. If Yanukovych seems a throwback to the Soviet era, Yushchenko, 50, wants to bring Ukraine into the free-market age. In opposition, he turned Our Ukraine into a powerful bloc that's threatening to undo the current ruling clan's lock on power...
...stands, the film is one of the best dramas of the year and it will hopefully inject some much needed life into theaters when it is released this December. Though modern in approach, the film (which is set in the ’70s) has a throwback feel that encompasses nearly every aspect of the production. What Mueller has done is distilled the essence of the great movies of the 1970s without simply mimicking them...
...unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil...
...throwback to last year’s lawless play, officials handed out just four penalties—three to the Crimson—a marked departure from the tightly whistled contests thus far this year. But Harvard’s offense, to date most-effective with a man advantage, seemed right at home at even-strength, battling its way to a decisive three-goal win over the conference-leading Dutchmen...