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...football stadium, watching games on a small TV rather than sitting in the bleachers. His ongoing call-in war with mysterious Eagles fan “Philadelphia Phil” (Michael Rapaport) probably gives him the greatest sense of purpose his humble life has ever known. Oswalt—whose previous credits include voicing Remy the Rat in “Ratatouille”—gives an evocative and authentic performance. His naturally chubby physique complements his character’s infantile personality, both of which serve to present a man at odds with the world around...
Employees whose jobs do not offer paid leave to care for sick family and children may face “serious morale problems on how to cope with financial issues,” said Robert J. Blendon, director of the research program and a professor of health policy and political analysis at the School of Public Health...
...moments, again and again. When they finally meet, the release of this tension is explosive, all the more so because time has eclipsed and brought to light the realization that revenge is futile here. Hirschbiegel’s insights are telling, albeit conventional. From Ireland to Rwanda, people whose lives were destroyed by violence are forced to live next door to those who supported, colluded with, or tacitly approved of their parents’ executioners, and no culture of vendetta can repair the damage already done. The choice between vengeful gratification and reconciliation—or whatever approximation is possible?...
...social resonance, though often placing greater emphasis on one aspect than the other. For the HFA, while the main objective is to exhibit films that are visually challenging, the content’s sophistication is also taken into consideration.“We tend to avoid showing films whose main objective is to deliver information, to deliver an ideological message,” says programmer David Pendleton of the HFA, “because we try to show films that have a certain aesthetic complexity.” This stylistic complexity can contribute to a film’s overall...
...this one, Lethem spoon-feeds the reader tropes from contemporary literature instead of developing anything uniquely satisfying, rendering “Chronic City” otherwise insubstantial.The novel begins as Insteadman’s meets one Perkus Tooth, an aging, roving-eyed rock critic and strikingly disparate figure whose hovel on 84th street provides the setting for much of the rest of the story. Tooth serves as the wellspring for the paranoia that motivates much of the book, and brokers Chase’s introduction to the other major players, Oona Laszlo and Richard Abneg.Chase and Tooth shortly develop...