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The problem of adapting The Passion of the Christ from the New Testament is transforming a succinct story into a two-hour movie. Filling in the gaps is where director Mel Gibson has the opportunity to exercise creative license.
Let's face it: the Matrix sequels sucked, and the December blockbusters are still a few weeks away. If you need a fix of interesting film in the meantime, perhaps the Center for Documentary Studies can tide you over.
Which one of them fools said Clint Eastwood was washed-up? Mystic River, Eastwood's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel, is somber and mesmerizing. It touches you in all the right spots, leaving you exhausted from its sheer precision. It's the kind of satisfaction you wish you could experience on every night out.
Colors have attitudes. Recent films like Cabin Fever and Underworld use color schemes as a means of obvious, overt symbolism: Cabin Fever uses shades of dull orange and brown to represent decay (trees, flesh, social convention--you name it); while Underworld uses black, white and blue to create a pretentious, edgy moodiness. Color can be an obvious, overt form of symbolism, used to hammer a point home. However, when skillfully executed, color technique can unconsciously enhance and manipulate the mind of a perceptive viewer.
The key word in "guilty pleasure" is "pleasure." A movie like Underworld is supposed to stimulate the senses, not abuse them. All the right ingredients are present: hot young actors Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman, a nifty plot, a bunch of ambiguous pseudo-villains, blood, gore, awesome sword-work, a tight shiny black cat-suit...
Like that dumb blonde you randomly picked up at a party last weekend, Le Divorce has sex appeal on the surface, but leaves a lot to be desired underneath.
I suppose the easiest way to convince the student body to lay aside the half-finished term papers for a few hours and see Frida is to announce that the movie includes a number of scenes that feature Salma Hayek TOPLESS. If that's all the incentive you need, you can stop reading now, sport.
Prompted by an abundance of prank calls, the Duke University Police Department removed many emergency call phones from dormitory entrances earlier this semester.
