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Blame it all on Mark Twain. His novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn established not only the quest theme for 20th century American literature but also the matter and manner of kids' movies. Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck...
...Panic! Designs of West Hollywood is doing a brisk business in media- bashing fashion. Their $15 T shirts are as hot as an NBC incendiary device...
That has helped spark an enthusiastic response among cutting-edge audiophiles. The Wiz, a New York City-based audio-products chain, reports brisk sales for its stock of both DCC and minidisc players. Sony says it will sell about 70,000 MiniDisc players...
FINLAND'S MOST DISTINGUISHED WRITER-director is named Aki Kaurismaki. That statement is true and probably funny -- like his THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL, a comedy so dark that some viewers take it for tragedy. This sly parable starts with a brisk documentary on the transformation of a stick of wood in a box of matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom...
Only in the end, a mushy account of the environmental movement's challenge to oil's dominance, does the series falter. Most of the time, The Prize is a gusher of brisk and illuminating history...