Word: twist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DEATHTRAP BEGS to be compared to Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, another closed-room, twist-filled thriller, and unquestionably loses out in the comparison. But with intricate plot twists (which unfortunately tend to fizzle toward the end), and some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine...
...them seem unimportant by lovingly photographing his subjects' every muscle in a moist, lush color often enhanced by slow motion, and the eerie sound of rhythmic breathing. This may sound cliched by now, especially after the slow-motion races of Chariots of Fire, but Towne always adds an extra twist to keep things from getting boring. In one particularly stunning warm-up sequence, for instance, he follows the team through all five pentathlon events: A dozen shotputters twirl into one perfect throw, and the high jump becomes a graceful cascade of falling torsos. Sweat drips heavily to a moist track...
Hawking's prodigious research achievements and unceasing optimism in the face of his debilitating disease have been called a model for handicapped people. Many of his colleagues suggest that, in an odd twist of fate, Hawking's disease may have helped his work by forcing him to focus exclusively on the faraway physical world...
...colors and gaily spinning contraptions-is an extended divertissement, with Hoffmann the butt of a joke shared by everyone except him. Olympia, the crowning achievement of Spalanzani's workshop, is obviously a machine, and in a fine, broad comic touch, Director Schenk has the inventor's assistant twist each of her fingers to produce the dazzling coloratura of her famous Doll's Song. The mood turns passionate when Hoffmann meets the sensuous Giulietta, and Schneider-Siemssen's Venice creates an atmosphere of dark mystery, with shadowy palazzi looming over dark canals whose waters hold untold secrets...
Also appearing in the theaters this week is the adaptation of the hit Broadway show Deathtrap, in which homosexuality is used more to give a sharp twist to the first-act ending than as prime subject matter, though at one Los Angeles screening someone cried out at the sight of Michael Caine kissing Co-Star Christopher Reeve, "Say it isn't so, Superman!" This spring will bring Partners, about a gay policeman (John Hurt) and a straight one (Ryan O'Neal) who set up housekeeping in the Los Angeles homosexual community in order to entrap a murderer...