Word: horror
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...their opening box office—seems far more likely. But it’s troubling that Rice tries to champion anti-intellectual animosity toward critics by suggesting that they are out-of-touch with average moviegoers. Of course, film critics have their biases. Indeed, certain movie genres, namely horror and comedy, are perennially panned. Unsurprisingly, a majority of this year’s unscreened films fall into one of those categories. In particular, Adam Sandler’s production company—Happy Madison Productions—has blighted the cinematic landscape twice this season, with puerile ensemble farces...
Everyone who has had the pleasure of experiencing “Airplane!” has a favorite scene or moment. In a week when David Zucker’s new movie “Scary Movie 4,” retreads horror movies that you’ve already forgotten in a manner that will get old five minutes after you leave the theater, go for his classic version of the same material...
...score and lyrics may have been new to Commins, but the feeling of community was just what he was looking for in Harvard’s musical theater scene, which he first entered as part of the Harvard-Radclife Dramatic Club (HRDC) production “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” this fall. “There’s something for everyone here, from the juggler to the clarinetist to the swing dancer,” he said. “Also, it’s more intense [than in high school], but when you are with...
...good movie--taut and implacable--that honors the deeds of the passengers while being fair, if anyone cares, to the hijackers' jihad bravado. (At one point the passengers are heard murmuring the Lord's Prayer while the hijackers whisper their prayers to Allah.) If this is a horror movie, it is an edifying one, a history lesson with the pulse of a world-on-the-line suspense film...
These three films, in various stages of gestation, all look to be honest, fact-based depictions of a central American story. They also have recognizable movie antecedents. In the horror stories of history, Hollywood picks through the carnage to find heroes, and the makers of the 9/11 films have found a few. Clarke, in Against All Enemies, is the lonely sentinel begging a smug, slow-witted establishment to take al-Qaeda seriously. He's Frank Capra's Mr. Smith after 30 years in Washington, his stubborn zeal intact. Another species of hero is the lucky survivor; and as Schindler...