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...tired, uninventive romantic film plot is born when a happily married architect celebrating 25 years of bliss suddenly catches the seven-year itch. In Town and Country, Porter Stoddard (Warren Beatty) is every post-menopausal woman’s dream husband. He’s rich and successful, not too handsome to be dangerous and blessed with an adorable charm. But suddenly things go awry—a flash of décolletage here and there is enough to evoke in poor Porter a supercharged sexuality. An unbelievable number of affairs later—not even...
...second to the acting as a means of establishing personalities. In addition, the script offers plenty of promises with no payoffs. A romantic subplot involving Tanto and a female reporter leads absolutely nowhere, and could easily have been excised without affecting the movie in the slightest. Ditto regarding a plot strand concerning Tanto’s ex-wife. And the character of Sophia, so integral to the first half of the movie, becomes nearly invisible and irrelevant for the remainder of the running time. Interestingly, these quibbles all involve the women of the movie, making a statement that racing...
...Painter of Birds, Lídia Jorge aims to create a story full of rich language and imagery. And perhaps when read in its original Portuguese the novel achieves her goal. But in translation, much of this richness is lost. The novel seems to be competing with itself: the timeframe, plot line and character interactions are complex, but the writing itself is simple. This competition works against the novel, making it good, but not outstanding...
...story of Horatio, one of Hamlet’s advisors, than anyone else. The play begins with Horatio wanting not only to tell Hamlet’s tale, but also to confess his own sins. It is here that Funke has incorporated a historical element in to the plot; Horatio tells his story to Saxo the Grammarian, the first writer to enter the real “Amleth” into the historical record through his book of Danish history...
Though the plot is not all that original, in general, this year’s production is much better than last year’s freshman musical. Also, despite some of its shortcomings, I Spy has several strong points, nearly justifying the six dollars for the tickets and the three hours spent in watching...