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...filmmakers also erred in taking the climactic and unexpectedly unique plot twist and unravelling it over the last quarter of the film, letting out whatever steam might have been collected along the way. Two other misdemeanors are a) continuing the trend of crediting Ben Kingsley as “Sir” for lame action movies and b)playing a rap song over the credits that summarizes the plot, “Mighty Ducks” style...
...part “Save the Last Dance,” one part “You Got Served” with a twist of “Shall We Dance,” “Take the Lead” is based on the true story of Pierre Dulaine (played by Antonio Banderas), a ballroom dance instructor who introduced the art to inner New York City high school students. The dancing is phenomenal, and the movie is a guaranteed good time for a wide-ranging audience. Sexually charged young hetereosexual women will coo over Antonio Banderas, while...
Here's another twist that doesn't usually get emphasized: although the data supporting the health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption are strong, they are almost entirely from epidemiological studies, not the large, randomized, placebo-controlled trials that are the gold standard of science. Epidemiological studies are very good at identifying possible trends and associations, but they are not designed to prove cause and effect. That's not necessarily a problem. No one has ever done a randomized trial of smoking, yet it clearly causes cancer. On the other hand, it was on the basis of good epidemiological evidence that...
Fakery is unbecoming to an artist. Indeed, counterfeiting another's creativity is anathema to any honest painter or writer. With his previous novel, Peter Carey took that idea and gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme...
LAST WORD Coming up with six vegetables that begin with the letter C can be tricky, especially if the clock is ticking. As in Scattergories, players try to rattle off words within a category that begin with a given letter. The twist here is that a buzzer sounds at random intervals. The goal is to be the last player to chime in successfully. If you're the one who screams "Celery!" just before the buzzer, you win the round...