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...albums is Songs I Heard, a heartfelt celebration of the movies that influenced him as a child. Whether simply singing or playing solo on the piano, he innovatively covers childhood favorites from The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Annie and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with an effervescent twist. He opens with a swinging Big Band arrangement of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and culminates in an enthralling jam session to, of all things, the song “Do Re Mi.” In between, Connick demonstrates a free-spirited maturity with his clever interpretations...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...
...generally unoriginal direction, genuine frights are few and far between. The visual effects and set design do have their moments, but the ghosts themselves too often look like tired haunted house props. And while the story holds the audience’s attention well enough, its supposed surprise twist is rather uninteresting and the ending oddly abrupt...
...Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed by the Hughes brothers, twins Allen and Albert, 29, who are best known, at least have been until now, for their violent urban dramas set in modern-day Los Angeles. While From Hell divided the critics at last month's Toronto Film Festival, its highly stylized canvas...
...malicious—merely cultural. The Siege in 1998 was an eerie prediction of Arab-American internment after terrorist attacks in New York, and the film’s intent seemed to be to show that this was not a reasonable response to a terrorist attack. But the final twist of the movie was that the ostensibly good Middle Eastern Arab did turn out to be a crazy terrorist in the end. The Arab-American cop was all right, but he was merely Denzel Washington’s sidekick, portrayed in a way reminiscent of Tonto—good...