Word: escapist
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...gadgets, uses the gadgets, saves the world in the nick of time—is not here, but what remains is a well-executed, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Bottom Line: With all the family-oriented fare and kudo-hungry movies flooding theatres right now, have some escapist holiday fun with Craig. Daniel Craig.—Reviewer Christopher C. Baker can be reached at ccbaker@fas.harvard.edu...
...weighs down the album. And by “weighs down,” I mean “sinks.” What makes it all worse is that Dre doesn’t even appear on the album. He takes us out of that pseudo-fantasy escapist hip-hop world where you believe everything the rapper says—he’s the greatest, he gets all the hoes, he drives a Bentley, and so on—and brings us back into the real world, where rappers are just as petty and insecure as the rest...
...familiarity they've got, thanks to the staggering success of the tabloids. Instead of the escapist "insert yourself here" print ads and commercials featuring the (relatively) blank canvas of a model, we're met with a face so familiar that we know not only the box-office stats of her last movie but also the names of her children and which coffee chain she prefers. And given that the financial stakes are so high?with Oscar winners demanding beauty contracts worth up to $12 million a pop?the question is, Is she really worth...
...skew is much more severe, with the young accounting for a lopsided percentage of the audience. As for moving pictures of current events, TV and the Internet offer as many as anyone could want, but the newsreel is as dead as Free Dishes Night. Thus movies are now more escapist than the old Hollywood product ever was, more reticent to turn the nation's central anxieties into screen drama...
...movie like this expecting a deep dissection of the implications of violence on society, or even necessarily a shred of realism. It is, however, a reasonable expectation that if it’s not going to provide either of those things, it will at least be escapist fun. What “Running Scared” provides instead is a nonsensical plot, dialogue that consists mostly of variations on Paul Walker screaming “Give me my fucking gun,” nonstop shootings, beatings, and knifings; and a directorial style, courtesy of Wayne Kramer, that refuses...