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...wants to be two totally distinct movies. On the one hand, it aspires to take a play from the “Saw” franchise and showcase various gruesome and elaborate killing mechanisms. On the other, it wants to be an incisive analysis of the faults of our country??s current legal system. Gray inserts a few not-so-subtle shots of a William Penn statue to imply a moral connection between the just colonist and Clyde. (The only real connection seems to be that they were both in jail at some point...
...would be a tremendous shame if “The Damned United,” the latest collaboration between screenwriter Peter Morgan and actor Michael Sheen, were deemed merely a good sports movie. This is not a genre film. Football—soccer in this country??is not the subject matter so much as a conduit to the film’s study of ego and relationships. Previous collaborators on “Frost/Nixon” (in which Sheen played television presenter David Frost) and “The Special Relationship...
This year, though, with members of The Naked Chips scattered throughout the country??s college towns, it’s been a challenge for the band to maintain its momentum...
...retaining Dershowitz as her attorney, Borukhova joins the ranks of some of this country??s most notorious defendants—Patricia Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson, Michael Milken and O.J. Simpson...
Suppose you won the lottery. What would you do with the money? Countries have faced similar questions. The most common example is a price commodity boom. A country exports a great deal of petroleum or copper or similar commodities. The price of this commodity zooms; the country??s revenues do as well. From Caracas to Lagos to Moscow and Tehran, governments whose countries have benefited from commodity price booms have rarely spent such a bonanza well. Chile witnessed a commodity price boom during this past decade, and it has set an admirable example for others...