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...Karma? The cast, especially Spade (we keep wanting to call him David Snide) and Warburton, give bounce and sass to a script full of clever ideas. You won't find the emotional grandeur of The Lion King here, but that's O.K. Emperor doesn't aim too high or strain too hard; it is at ease inhabiting its pretty, miniature realm...
...inbred ingrate. When she complains to a cop about him, the cop offers this blithe appraisal: "He's high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore...
...inbred ingrate. When she complains to a cop about him, the cop offers this blithe appraisal: "He's high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore it. By the end, the movie has gone goofily gothic - more Wes Craven than Truman Capote - and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant "The Gift" to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive...
...Karma?" The cast, especially Spade (we keep wanting to call him David Snide) and Warburton, give bounce and sass to a script full of clever ideas. You won't find the emotional grandeur of "The Lion King" here, but that's OK. "Emperor" doesn't aim too high or strain too hard; it is at ease inhabiting its pretty, miniature realm...
Despite these restrictions, last month corn exported from the United States to Japan and meant for human and livestock consumption was also found to include some of the StarLink strain. Even without the danger of an adverse reaction in humans, the unexpected occurrence of modified genomes is an enormous ecological problem. Yet this time, because of the suspected threat to human health, the matter was significantly more than "theoretically" wrong. Despite a ban on the use of a GM organism in the United States, a possible health threat found its way into the food supply of another country from American...