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...Speed Racer is the familiar fable of the little man fighting the big corporation, the inventor vs the exploiter, the young athlete whose talents would be used and abused by the establishment. In the Racer clan, Pops (John Goodman) is a mechanic turned car designer. Mom (Susan Sarandon) is the family's emotional center, a font of dewy wisdom. Older brother Rex (Scott Porter) is a champion racer who confides some of his Zen driving secrets to his younger brother Speed before mysteriously disappearing after a car crash. Years later, Speed (Emile Hirsch) is ready to carry on the Racer...
...close. Or perhaps more accurately, it can’t seem to figure out how to reconcile the film’s major oppositional forces—men and women—to each other. As in the past, genders are treated as camps—us vs. them—with the “us” always being “us guys.” And as at a middle school dance, the boys seem to be having a hard time talking to the girls.Many people take issue with the establishment of the sexes as camps...
...were having the election. If things are truly to remain unresolved until the Democratic convention in August, the whole script needs a rewrite. If we’ve learned anything from films like “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” it’s that audiences will watch any male-female relationship unfold as long as it features an attractive, charismatic couple, once turned against itself with explosions-qua-flirtation, uniting in the end to defeat an apocalyptic common enemy. Even if the Clinton/Obama...
...York Times book critic Janet Maslin at Kirkland House on Monday. Benton is wise in the ways of Hollywood as the martyred-then-hallowed screenwriter of “Bonnie and Clyde” and the beatified and Academy Award-winning writer-director of “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But rather than rehash his many successes, he and Maslin spent their 90 minutes together discussing the “grammar for films” he learned from the French New Wave masters François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Everything about their conversation, from...
...jumper, Bowie?” “Robots” suffers similar symptoms, as some of the robot voices that were hilariously over-the-top in the show and on stage have sadly been toned down. Nonetheless, no change could affect a classic like “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros,” which showcases the two comedians’ lyrical prowess. Jemaine (Hiphopopotamus) raps: “My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant / Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist but you lovely bitches...