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...kidnaping of his wife is an act of belated (and misdirected) revenge for an operation that cost the lives of a Communist master-spy's family two decades earlier. The Lloyds have not reclaimed their luggage at the Paris airport before Walter is forced to dispatch a thug sent to murder him. In a matter of hours he is giving Junior, who has the innocent courage, clumsiness and distractibility of a puppy, a much needed basic course in espionage field operations. It is clear that being a spy is rather like riding a bicycle: once you have learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Daddy Did in the Cold War TARGET | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...1940s of Chow's teeming fantasy, Shanghai is terrorized by the Axe Gang, a thug team as dapper as they are vicious: they don black suits and top hats, and rumba to a rumble. Only one area, Pig Sty Alley, is temporarily immune to their predations--in part because the neighborhood is so poor, in part because all the residents, from the baker and the tailor to the kids and seniors, are skilled in martial arts. The Landlady (Yuen Qiu), spuming belligerence, can suck a cigarette to cinders in one deep breath, and has a lion's roar scream that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Magical Martial Romp | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

DIED. Joseph C. ("Mickey") Shaughnessy, 64, comic actor whose instantly identifiable mug betokened deftly played stereotypes, usually a sailor, a thug or an Irishman, in 40 movies, including From Here to Eternity (1953), Jailhouse Rock and Don 't Go Near the Water (both 1957); of lung cancer; in Cape May Court House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 5, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...second story stars Mickey Rourke as the violent-yet-noble thug Marv. When a beautiful woman (Jamie Pressly) takes him to bed and is murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Sin City | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...second story stars Mickey Rourke as the violent-yet-noble thug Marv. When a beautiful woman (Jamie Pressly) takes him to bed and is murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Frank Miller's Sin City | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

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