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Four guys, three of them middle-aged, get into a hot tub at a scruffy ski resort they used to frequent in the 1980s. They get drunk, spill various liquids on the controls and are transported back in time to 1986 - a time when the youngest, Jacob (Clark Duke), has not yet been conceived but very soon will be, perhaps even within the 24 hours in which Hot Tub Time Machine takes place. (See photos of 35 years of stylish autos...
...Jacob is supposed to be 20. The movie includes a joke about Tiger Woods sexting, which places it squarely in 2010; if Jacob was conceived in early 1986 he should be 23. But whatever - Hot Tub Time Machine is not a durable good. If I saw it again tomorrow I would probably dwell on its lapses in continuity, its problematic plot seemingly held together with Silly Putty and whether, cinematically speaking, one really needs so many close-ups of dog poop, vomit and suspiciously manly fluids...
...standpoint, the film is a resounding success. The cinematography is beautiful—every scene is unsettlingly real, striking a balance between the familiar and the frightening. The lighting is appropriately stark, inspiring shadows of doubt concerning the characters’ suspicions, motivations, and secrets. The accompanying score by Jacob Grost is so in tune with the film that it alone could chill a listener to the bone...
Written by Sonia C. Coman ’11, the play is an absurdist drama that follows the life of Leah, the Old Testament character and first wife of Jacob, who lives life haunted by the possibility of being just average. Over the course of the show she struggles with her destiny by reliving important moments in her life. As she reflects on her past, Leah meets old versions of herself and watches them make the decisions that have brought her to where...
South African President Jacob Zuma received a less than cordial welcome when he stepped off the plane in London for a three-day state visit to Britain this week. The British media, renowned for their sometimes witty, often outlandish headlines and a tone that can swing between cheeky and downright rude, have vilified Zuma for having five wives, calling him everything from a "sex-obsessed bigot" to a "vile buffoon...