3 result(s) tagged “War”

The Best of Bad Choices

6 Jul 2007

Run like hell: Robert Carlyle in '28 Weeks Later' In the opening of 28 Weeks Later, Don (Robert Carlyle) faces a dilemma: He can leave his wife to die and run like hell on the off chance that he might outrun the “infected,” or he can stay with her and face a gruesome end.

He runs like hell, and looks back to see his wife attacked.

This is the movie writ small, laying the groundwork for more impossible choices.

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War Won’t Tear Us Apart

27 Dec 2005

In A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fervid need to turn everything into fussy, over-processed whimsy is wholly incongruous with its primary subject: war.

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War Without End

11 Oct 2005

For the past three decades, Tim O’Brien has been trying to tell true war stories — even though most of them, strictly speaking, are fiction.

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Box Office Power Rankings: November 14-16, 2008
As we all expected, Bolt ran away with this week’s Box Office Power Rankings ... . Hmmm. Let’s step back a second. That Disney’s computer-animated ...
Box Office Power Rankings: November 14-16, 2008
Does it make sense to get out of the way of a certain blockbuster? Or should studios try to tap into a market being unserved ...
Fixed Favorites
For the first time since fall 2006, I updated the 100 Favorite Movies feature of Culture Snob. Thirteen movies were added, and 29 went away. ...
Box Office Power Rankings: November 7-9, 2008
It was odd to read these two things within a few minutes of each other: On Role Models: “[T]he kind of movie you don’t see ...
Box Office Power Rankings: October 31-November 2, 2008
The consensus that Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Clint Eastwood’s Changeling were poor performers — the weakest Halloween weekend in a ...

Very interesting post. We’ll just have to wait and see how his thoughts and opinions make an impact on the public eyes. ...
Zepp
The Psychopathic Chicken (and Other Lessons of Evolution)
I don’t disagree, but I think there can still be subtlety in a character with a hard surface. The performance might indeed be honest, but ...
Culture Snob
Perspective and the Past
I think the reason Taylor Hackford directed Jennifer Jason Leigh to deliver through clenched teeth is that her character, after years of abuse, no longer ...
mike
Perspective and the Past
Kudos on your inclusion of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” This film always seems to be criticized more and more as it ages. However, its ...
Jamie
Fixed Favorites
TRANSIT is one of best shorts I ever seen. Piet Kroon and Ian Harvey are together in a new movie: “Not the End of the ...
Alex Nautilus
Short-Film Week: "Gem" as Faint Praise

3 result(s) tagged “War”

The Best of Bad Choices

War Won’t Tear Us Apart

War Without End

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