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...show’s pacing quickly becomes bogged down in the mire of political and philosophical musings. The action also becomes unnecessarily convoluted in the middle acts, with the confusing web of deception and devious plotting further detracting from the play’s potential dramatic effect. At two hours, the show feels wearying; at almost three, it borders on insufferable...
While Roland Emmerich’s “2012” was not spectacular as a cinematic effort, its premise wasn’t entirely wrong—the end of history is almost here. It’s slightly more than two years away, though, according to the academic Francis Fukuyama. In “The End of History and the Last Man,” Professor Fukuyama famously argued that liberal democracy will become the last form of government, the final product of the evolutionary mechanism that is history. But both the director of this would...
...don’t think the idea of two back-to-back murders committed with a foil-wrapped steak is funny, director Jake Goldberger’s comedic thriller “Don McKay” probably isn’t for you. The film—Goldberger’s first—aims to be darkly humorous with this incident and others even more absurd, but garners laughs mostly at its own expense. Despite a talented cast including Thomas Hayden Church (“Sideways”) and Elisabeth J. Shue...
...from the girl McKay remembers, and seems strangely vital for a dying woman. Her caretakers, live-in nurse Marie (Melissa Leo) and Dr. Lance Pryce (James Rebhorn), are on suspiciously intimate terms with their patient. Remembering their long history together, Sonny asks Don to share her bed, and the two sleep together on his first night back. The following morning Dr. Pryce assaults Don in a rage, and he kills the doctor in self-defense, stashing him in the backyard...
...Argos after his adoptive family is killed by Hades. The film continues as a quest tale as Perseus travels to defeat various demons, monsters, and mythical creatures accompanied by his team of rag-tag misfits, including four soldiers either too young or too old to fight, two wacky ethnic hunters, a magical man made of living tree bark, and a mysterious immortal who has watched Perseus since birth...