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...upper-class-English pet mouse. Kept in a literally gilded cage by a nice family in Kensington, Roddy has impeccable manners and a chipper demeanor that can't quite mask his loneliness. So when he's flushed down a toilet into the London sewer system, and discovers a complex underworld underground, he is at first horrified, then thrilled to join a plucky rodent named Rita (Kate Winslet) in her comrades' battle against the pompous toad king (Ian McKellen). This, Roddy realizes, is the bustle and agitation he's been missing-the agita and ecstasy of life...
...main mouse here is the one attached to a computers. The design of the underworld is pretty splendid, with an imaginative scope and attention to detail that might have taken decades to realize if each piece had to be constructed and painted, rather than simply texted and input. You certainly won't see thumbprints on the characters, as were occasionally visible in the fingers-on-clay movies. This one is as polished as a formica table top in the kitchen of a neat-freak housewife. The question is whether the Aardmen lost some of stop-motion's charm, its humanity...
...violent revenge on his enemies, and Saw III, which would require a blackout on 3,000 screens to keep it from being declared #1 on Sunday. But the very first weekend of January, Hostel emerged triumphant over King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia. Two and four weeks later, Underworld: Evolution (a sequel) and When a Stranger Calls (a remake) reigned. In April, Scary Movie 4 giggled its way to $40 million, and the next week Silent Hill made $20 million...
Roberto Saviano used to cruise around Naples on his Vespa for material that would one day fill his book about the criminal underworld. His anonymity provided ample cover as he trolled for tips and frequented murder scenes. "Over time, my face became known," the 28-year-old writes in Gomorra, a riveting account of the Naples Mob. "[But] in territory under surveillance every second ? anything that isn't a hindrance is considered neutral." But with 100,000 copies sold since April, Saviano is no longer considered neutral, and no longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime...
Street lit profiles the black underworld in graphic detail. Like gangsta rap, street lit often has thieves, pushers and prostitutes as protagonists. And like gangsta rap in its heyday, street lit is hot business. In an industry that considers sales of 20,000 copies of a typical novel a success, gritty street-lit authors like K'wan are routinely doubling that number...