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Video games with cinematic tie-ins are often wan, but Enter the Matrix is rich, complex and compelling--almost a new movie in itself. In production since February 2001, it puts Jada Pinkett Smith's Niobe--not exactly a central figure in The Matrix Reloaded--front and center. There are two hours' worth of new scenes that pop up between levels, and Pinkett Smith submitted to several months of highly advanced "mo-cap"--a motion-capture technique that turns body movements into digital information--so that you're literally playing...
...from a prayer session, Atabi was arrested. His family went to the prison to seeking information about Hassan, 25, a laborer who had a wife and children. Officials warned them not to tell anyone about Hassan's disappearance. "He was guilty of nothing," said father-in-law Kasim Bin Wan. "Saddam kidnapped a man from his wife...
Malcolm skews a bit older, with more roughhouse and cynicism, but Muniz's feature films are traditional anxiety fantasies for kids: Big Fat Liar put some brisk wit into its boy-who-cried-wolf plot; Cody Banks is a wan recycling of Spy Kids with a 007 fixation. The Bynes and Duff movie vehicles are more nakedly retro. What a Girl Wants is based on the '50s Sandra Dee bauble The Reluctant Debutante, while The Lizzie McGuire Movie could be Gidget Goes to Rome with an updated pop score. Both put their budding stars in glamorous foreign capitals (London...
...chronicle of T. E. Lawrence, a British officer who in WWI created a guerilla force out of Arabs waging their own private wars, Lawrence of Arabia has an immortal cast: Peter O’Toole (this year’s Oscar winner for lifetime achievement), Alec Guinness (a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi), Claude Rains (Casablanca’s prefect of police) and Anthony Quinn (who was Zorba the Greek). Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April 13 at 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. Tickets $8.50, $7.50 matinees. $5.50 seniors and children. Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle...
...This is intriguing—I may have a new pastime, Hobey Wan Kenobi. Watching Harvard’s games should at least offer me more entertainment than playing another season of Madden 2003. I’m already in season 2014! Joey Harrington has won MVP the last 11 seasons. There is only so many times I can run “parallel slants” in the five-WR format for a touchdown before I start to lose interest...