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...murder mystery, social commentary, and unrepentant action flick. This mood is immediately set as brawny Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) fails to fight off an unidentified attacker in his home. Viewers—assuming they have not read the graphic novel—can only speculate as to the assassin??s identity, but Blake knows, telling his killer that their world is a joke before he is hurled out a high-rise window.Creating this world has required years of imagination. The greatest challenge facing the creation of “Watchmen” has always been the legacy...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Watchmen | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...discretion.Kauffman and his team approach their task with a sense of righteous purpose. When the team’s “clean-up specialist” (Ciarán Hinds) remarks, “It is strange to think of one’s self as an assassin??, Kaufman replies, “Then think of yourself as something else.” In their minds they are not hit men, but Israel’s angels of vengeance. However, their seemingly secure self-perception within their moral high ground is really a slippery slope. Kauffman...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Munich | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Memoirs of a Geisha.” “Memoirs of a Geisha” boasts an acting team of international superstars like Zhang, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), and Gong Li (“The Emperor and the Assassin??), talented big-name producers like Steven Spielberg and Gary Barber, and the plot line of the bestselling novel by Arthur S. Golden ’78. The resulting expectations are completely satisfied by the screen adaptation. The film opens in a small fishing village of Japan, in which young Chiyo (Suzuka...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Memoirs of a Geisha | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

This would be the miss. Stehle’s shot would find the iron and the ball would make its way to, say, Scott Greenman, who Harvard coach Frank Sullivan continually refers to as “the Harvard assassin?? for the clutch three-pointers he hit in both showdowns last year. Greenman would then nail a ridiculous half-court heave to force overtime...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Not This Time—M. Basketball Averts Princeton Miracle | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...even with the bitter taste of defeat stinging my gorge, I still think that everyone should play Assassin??for the thrills, the entertainment and the all-too-rare intoxication that comes with knowing that people are out there somewhere waiting to kill...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Killing Time | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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