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...modern Guy Fawkes, the 17th century Romanist who tried to blow up Parliament. Four centuries later, he is a masked man with a mission: to expose, and explode, the state's dictatorial power. Scripters Andy and Larry Wachowski match their work on The Matrix, fashioning a ripping action yarn that is also a provocative political statement (justifying violence against authority). This V is for Vivid, Vexing and Very good. Petulia Richard Lester Gorgeous, desperately madcap Petulia (Julie Christie) needs a Galahad to rescue her from marriage to a handsome brute (Richard Chamberlain). She chooses Archie (George C. Scott), a surgeon...
...reality TV's unlikeliest but most satisfying genre: shows about people who actually know how to do something. This week the fashion showdown Project Runway (Bravo, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) returns for its third season, having smashed Bravo's ratings records by proving that you can spin a good yarn from threads. Elsewhere, designers, chefs, moviemakers--even preachers--are turning to reality TV to show their stuff. Think of these series as American Idol goes to trade school competitions not for neophyte performers looking to get famous but for professionals to advance their careers long after the cameras shut...
...effectiveness of its special effects. They will doubtless think they?re swell. The director, Gore Verbinski, has spared no expense in realizing them, and there's no doubt in my mind that as a commercial proposition the film will be a winner. In every other way - as adventure yarn or as satire on that form or merely as an enjoyable entertainment featuring a wonderfully sly and subtle actor - it is not merely a loser. It is a disaster...
...tough guy, she poses the rhetorical question: "Want a taste of a bitch who?s really lost her mind?" Surrounded by a cast of overactors (who provide way too much burly comic relief for my taste), Namsoon anchors a movie that straddles genres. Think of a Raymond Chandler yarn reimagined by Zhang Yimou and shot by ? well, like nobody...
...Black Halloween animal (CAT or BAT) French 101 word (LUI or OUI) Provider of support, for short (IRA or BRA) Sewing shop purchase (YARN or YARD) Short writings (BITS or BIOS) Trumpet (BOAST or BLAST) Much-debated political inits...