Word: horror
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...have published a more meaningful issue, but I certainly don't remember it. Thank you for putting the horror of Sept. 11 within a perspective of diversity, common sense and compassion. MARYBETH LYTLE Urbandale, Iowa...
...open to all," he writes, "tossed out what they wanted to ignore, ginned up what they wanted to stress and ended up with a symbol of their own uniqueness that looked far more like a mirror image of their fantasies than a reflection of the original story." To his horror, he realized that Abraham "is as much a model for fanaticism as he is for moderation...
...despair or madness. The young cast squeezes every righteous tear from the audience. But Magdalene would be a better film - at least, it might have been a good one - if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork.) Or is it to much to ask a committed filmmaker to offer sympathy for the devil? Is it possible, for that matter, to provide a lucid, nuanced portrait of children in distress? Yes, says Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables, about two abandoned...
...does matter: Sliver, slice, piece, wedge and chunk are the typical portions into which we cut pies, pastries and especially cake. I cared little about the money awaiting me in the religious cards stacked on the mahogany table in my living room. This cake was heavenly, and to the horror of the nuns who educated me, I could not help but use the word orgasmic...
...stock characterizations and flabby scare devices. The only thing that jolted audiences out of their seats was the sudden deep rumbling of the Dolby sound system whenever a ghost appeared. It must have been the Ghost of Hong Kong Movies Past, keening over the poor quality of this latest horror-movie...