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...creators realize their own upon the audience, as they cause it all sorts of pain. As USA Today’s reviewer put it: “At one point, the Punisher is asked who punishes him. The better question for those who made this inane bloodfest is: Why punish us?” Books “The Second Plane” by Martin Amis: Martin Amis hates religion in general and Islam in particular, and this book is his little opportunity to vent freely. Bigotry fuels essays and stories that ridicule Islamists and attack religion for its lack...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Projects of Hate in the Year Of Hope | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Story-style showdown with a rival news crew in an empty parking lot. Suddenly maracas and mariachi horns announce the arrival of yet another posse. As the Spanish language news team storms in waving machetes and whips, somebody remarks, "Well, it looks like we got ourselves a bi-lingual bloodfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Influencing America | 8/13/2005 | See Source »

...flick, though it's nowhere near as entertaining or unsettling as the original. But the story of a dying director striving to complete his final work and a devoted son dedicated to finishing the job may just provide Japan with something that it needs even more than another celluloid bloodfest: an emotional lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royale Terror | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...different point of view. I don't have the obsessed quality of making a movie. Maybe I made too many movies--83 of them. But I still look forward to the movie with my son. I never have done that. I don't know--that might be a bloodfest. Who the hell knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Kirk Douglas, A Lust For Life | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...virginal mother of three, a kiss that somehow set in motion for the woman and her future husband and children that secret civil war between Puritanism and passion, a war of the blood more openly and obviously dramatized by Author Morris in the spectacle of bloodless Americans watching the bloodfest of the bull ring. Always a novelist to watch, if not to cheer, Author Morris has also captured the poignance of the lonely in the gregarious accents of Midwest speech. At novel's end there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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