Word: kicking
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...let’s draw our metaphorical lightsabers, and kick some Sith...
...come with our own built-in audiences. And we're already used to remembering lines. Not to take anything away from actors. I don't think I'm ready to do a role where I have to cry. I like the action--kick a little ass, save the pretty girl...
...will honor the pleas of the film's press agents and not reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...
...parading America's old crimes, most explicitly in a closing montage of lynchings and other rank injustices to African-Americans. But though the film uses Dogville's technique of presenting all the action on a single stage, with no realistic sets and few props, it hasn't the kick or the sweep of the earlier film. Von Trier is up to the same old innovations and outrages, and audiences are used to them by now. Perhaps the trilogy's conclusion, Washington, will bring the director back to form. Von Trier seems to realize that, in mid-career, he still...
...news broke. When they decided to resume, patients like me had to decide whether to continue and risk heart attack or stroke down the road. The doctors no longer require new subjects to enroll for a full two years, to track long-term survival--the heart danger seemed to kick in after about 18 months--but they are offering it as an option. Anyone who re-upped had to sign a revised waiver specifically advising them of the possible increased risk. On paper that risk wasn't much. In one study, and one study only, 2 out of 100 Vioxx...