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...best described as a man-child. At 35, he lives with his mom, thinks that 10:46 p.m. is a little late to be heading out to a party, and sleeps with a poster of his idol, fictional New York Giants star Quantrell Bishop, above his bed. In writer-director Robert Siegel’s new movie “Big Fan,” Paul becomes the unlikely subject of an engaging and darkly humorous character study. Building on his work with 2008’s critically acclaimed “The Wrestler,” Siegel puts...
Elaborate costumes, gorgeous cinematography, British accents, a doomed romance—on paper, writer and director Jane Campion’s “Bright Star” contains all the elements of an effective period romance. And yet the film—which centers on the burgeoning love between Romantic poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne—proves disappointing, permanently handicapped by its lack of dramatic tension. Ben Whishaw (“Brideshead Revisited”) and Abbie Cornish (“Stop-Loss”) are wholly convincing as the movie’s tragic...
...findings...suggest[s] that businesses are vulnerable, particularly to widespread absenteeism,” said Gillian K. SteelFisher, a research scientist and the assistant director of the research program...
Employees whose jobs do not offer paid leave to care for sick family and children may face “serious morale problems on how to cope with financial issues,” said Robert J. Blendon, director of the research program and a professor of health policy and political analysis at the School of Public Health...
...Jim’s younger brother, Joe, frozen by the sight of the gun in the masked man’s hand, stood in the street 10 feet away and watched Jim die. With this event as an historical backdrop, “Five Minutes of Heaven” director Oliver Hirschbiegel probes the intensely personal nature of the divisive conflict that has plagued Ireland over the last century. Best known for “Downfall,” his Oscar-nominated 2004 chronicle of Hitler’s final days, Hirschbiegel again humanizes a seemingly irredeemable man to create...