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...boot. The film, about a the attempts of a West German computer hacker to connect with the KGB in East Berlin and to decipher a global conspiracy, will screen on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 p.m. Those who prefer Schmid’s nuanced earlier films to one-trick outings like “Reqiuem” should take heart. In his latest project, “Sturm,” Schmid turns to “Requiem” screenwriter Bernd Lange for a taut political thriller. In an interview with Austrian film website SkipWebWorld, Schmid said that...
...that’s part of the trick of Ivy League hoops. It lulls you with its three-month non-conference slate, slowly ticking off games against the Colgates and Vermonts of the world. Then Harvard, and its fans, ease into the league schedule with a home-and-home against Dartmouth in early January before breaking for exams and then picking up again and...bam! It’s over. Six more weekends is all it takes to play the rest, 37 days to go from 2-0 (the Big Green is good at generating confidence, or false hope...
Yale is a one-trick pony: it leads the conference in rushing offense, with senior tackle and Draddy Award (the “Academic Heisman”) candidate Ed McCarthy and sophomore tailback Mike McLeod (1,096 yards), but ranks fifth in rushing defense, sixth in passing defense, and dead last in passing offense...
...Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much cool but pointless visual trickery in this film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman’s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly disgusting way of putting out her cigarettes.Despite all these...
...strange thing happened last night. I had a knock on my door. A kid says, 'Trick or treat!' I said, 'Aren't you late?' He said, 'No, I'm dressed as a FEMA worker.'" JAY LENO...