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...easy to stand back and wax ironic about The Last Samurai. But it's not all that difficult to succumb to its full-spirited romanticism either. The director, Edward Zwick, whose Glory is one of the rare, recent triumphs among grand historical tales, has obviously studied his Kurosawa. Working on the script with Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, Zwick brings the master's concentrated fury to his depictions of hand-to-hand combat; a certain raw, muddy brutality to Cruise's training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast...
...often have to be felled to make them. Enter the Java Log. Made from used coffee grounds, it boasts a higher heat density than real wood, so it can burn hotter and last longer. When TIME compared the Java Log to a Duraflame (a log made of sawdust and wax), the Java Log ignited more quickly and produced taller, prettier flames. But does it make your house smell like a Starbucks store? Not to our nose...
...badly dated. Some of its scenes are put together wonderfully—particularly the nighttime car race—and there’s also the treat of a very early turn from Dennis Hopper. But, at its core, this is a movie where James Dean screws up his wax sculpture of a face and screams, “You’re tearing me apart!”—a movie that mistakes cheap melodrama for genuine humanity and whose worldview is as clumsy as can be. This is the way that American Beauty is going...
...myself circa 1988, I’m struck in particular by two things. First, it seems there was a time in my life when I actually had two distinct eyebrows without plucking. More importantly, though, is the red hair: it’s a long story involving ear wax and hydrogen peroxide but I won’t bore you with the details...
Gary Egiamson has been working at the Wax Museum for three years. He tells me that earlier this year, “there was a tour of people trying to take pictures of the cemetery, and they saw something. Apparently their cameras wouldn’t work. I don’t believe in that kind of stuff, but then you see 150 people with their Nikons and all these expensive cameras, trying to take pictures, and they can’t.” It’s too bad, I agree...