A corrupt developer (Armand Assante) tries to drive out residents of a small fishing village by dumping toxic waste in the water to stall the economy. But when the local sharks find their food source depleted, they begin violently attacking humans. John Schneider and Daryl Hannah star as a husband and wife who try to save the town from the sharks and th (more) A corrupt developer (Armand Assante) tries to drive out residents of a small fishing village by dumping toxic waste in the water to stall the economy. But when the local sharks find their food source depleted, they begin violently attacking humans. John Schneider and Daryl Hannah star as a husband and wife who try to save the town from the sharks and the developer. Shark Swarm - A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into. List of natural horror films This article. Shark Night (2011; various sharks) Shark Swarm (2008; various sharks attacking under chemical effect). Find great deals for Shark Swarm (DVD, 2008). Shop with confidence on eBay! People have certain expectations from a film called Shark Swarm. They will expect swarms of sharks, and in that respect, the film is being honest with us. They won't expect a running time significantly over an hour and a half, nor a bloated cast of characters with lots of little side stories and interpersonal drama. Directed by James A. With Daryl Hannah, John Schneider, Armand Assante. A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has.
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The film is also performing well in the overseas market. Here is the complete day by day box-office collection of Tiger Zinda Hai: Day 1 - Friday (Dec 22) - Rs 34.10 crore Day 2 - Saturday (Dec 23) - Rs 35.30 crore Day 3 - Sunday (Dec 24) - Rs 45.53 crore Day 4 - Monday (Dec 25) - Rs 36.54 crore Day 5 - Tuesday (Dec 26) - Rs 21.60 crore Day 6- Wednesday (Dec 27)- Rs 17.55 crore Day 7- Thursday (Dec 28)- Rs. The first trailer for Salman Khan’s action thriller Tiger Zinda Hai was released online on Tuesday. Salman returns as Tiger, a spy on a mission to save nurses being held hostage in Iraq by an evil dictator. Shot in exotic locations, and boasting Hollywood-standard action, the trailer highlights the attention to detail that has gone into making the film. Salman and his co-star from the first film (2012’s Ek Tha Tiger), Katrina Kaif, return on a joint mission to evacuate the hostages. There are shades of the recent Akshay Kumar film Airlift - which featured a similar plot and was set in the Middle East - and there is also some of the globe-trotting that we see in the Jason Bourne movies. In one sequence we also see Salman skateboarding in the mountains - like Vin Diesel in the xXx movies. All this goes to show the ambitions of the filmmakers into making a world-class film. The action and the plot (for once) are clearly spelled out in the trailer, and the stars - Salman and Katrina - have been given moments to shine. Speaking about Salman’s gun training for the film, director Ali Abbas Zafar explained in a press statement, “When you feature a superstar like Salman Khan, who is known to pull his weight for a film’s action, you need to have weaponry that suits his stature and also fit in with the scale of Tiger Zinda Hai.” He also spoke about the training Katrina Kaif put in to play Zoya, a spy. “In this film, Zoya plays a super spy. It was essential to understand how such agents think and operate. So, we got Katrina to train with real agents, used their expertise and experience. For instance, as intelligence agents, you have to train a certain way to keep your mental balance in direst situations. Say you face someone who has a gun and you don’t. How do you still stay neutral and calm, and figure out the best possible way to counter and survive in such a situation. Katrina has really pushed herself for the part,” Zafar said in a press statement. The film’s action director is Tom Struthers, who’s best known for his work on Christopher Nolan’s films Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception and Dunkirk. Tiger Zinda Hai is scheduled for a December 22 release. After Tiger Zinda Hai, Salman and Zafar will collaborate again on Bharat, an adaptation of 2014 South Korean film Ode To My Father. To be produced by Salman’s brother-in-law, Atul Agnihotri. The film will be shot in Abu Dhabi, Spain and India and will go on floors in April next year. Follow for more. Astazi este o zi speciala, ai ajuns la varsta la care toate caile it. I sunt deschise spre un nou orizont cu bune si cu rele. Fie ca aceasta zi sa te binecuvanteze, sa-ti strecoare cate un strop de bunatate, fericire, iubire si speranta in toate realizarile tale. Iti doresc viata lunga, plina de aventuri si succese alaturi de cei dragi tie, mult noroc in toate deciziile pe care le vei face si fie ca Dumnezeu sa-ti lumineze calea spre tot ce este cel mai bun. Sa reusesti sa treci cu bine peste toate obstacolele tari, sa tii fruntea sus indiferent de situatie si sa fii increzator in propriile tale forte stiind ca succesul e garantat. La multi ani!!! Situated 3 km away from the centre of Ineu and the Ineu Fortress, Hanul Moara cu Noroc offers an a-la-carte restaurant, air-conditioned rooms with free WiFi, as well as private parking on site. All rooms at Moara cu Noroc feature a balcony, an LCD TV with satellite channels and a refrigerator. Each is equipped with a. Jun 28, 2016 - 106 min - Uploaded by Dan RapidFor You Fm la Roata cu Noroc.mpg - Duration: 11:13. Florin Buzila 1,731 views 11:13 Toma. Eseu Moara cu Noroc, de Ioan Slavici pentru BAC 1)Introducere Ioan Slavici a fost o personalitate artistica ce s-a manifestat in literatura noastra ca povestitor, nuvelist, romancier, dramaturg. N-a reusit sa devina in toate speciile abordate un mare creator. Vigurosul sau talent nu s-a manifestat nicaieri mai deplin ca in nuvelistica. E unul dintre clasicii literaturii romane (+Eminescu, Creanga, Caragiale), ci si parintele nuvelisticii in literatura noastra. Prezentarea volumului- Apare la Bucuresti, in 1881, volumul “Novele din popor” o carte care avea sa insemne o data istorica in dezvoltarea prozei. Titlul volumului nu e ales la intamplare, ci reflecta temele, subiectele, personajele, toate desprinse din lumea satului. Nuvelele se grupeaza in doua categorii: • idilice: Popa Tanda, Budulea Taichii • neidilice: Moara cu Noroc, Padureanca, Comoara. Nuvelele idilice sunt scaldate in lumina frageda a idilei, a evocarii sau a umorului, au un conflict sumar. Eroi sunt de factura folclorica si pastreaza influenta literaturii populare. Nuvelele neidilice au un conflict puternic, antreneaza caractere tari, complexe, atmosfera lor e grava, sumbra, chiar tragica, apropiindu-se de realismul critic. 2)Tipologie Este o nuvela realista cu scop moralizator care afirma principiile existentei scriitorului. (“Omul numai intreg e un om adevarat si e destul sa-si piarda bunul cumpat intr-o singura privinta ca sa i se strice intreaga fiinta”). Slavici e un scriitor realist, modern, ce-l anticipeaza pe Liviu Rebreanu prin viziunea realista a satului transilvanean. -Este nuvela psihologica, deoarece infatiseaza, prin tehnici moderne (monolog intern, introspectie, analiza psihologica), consecintele nefaste ale setei de imbogatire si slabiciunile omenesti. 3)Tema Dezumanizarea omului sub influenta banilor. Nuvela ilustreaza dictonul “Banul e ochiul dracului.” 4)Titlul Este simbolic, amintind un topos frecvent al literaturii nationale si universale: hanul, numit si “moara cu noroc”, care se afla in apropierea unor ruine ale unei mori nu mai macina. Sensul simbolului al morii e malefic, prevestitor de lucruri tragice, hanul fiind situat in pustietate. De asemenea, titlul e ironic, deoarece, desi Ghita spera ca moara va fi “cu noroc”, sursa de inavutire, in cele din urma este “cu ghinion”, deoarece moara semnifica macinare, transmitand ideea macinarii destinelor personajelor. Totodata, cuvantul cheie al operei “noroc” este si un haitmotiv al nuvelei. Batrana se teme sa paraseasca satul, afirmand: “Ma tem ca nu cumva, cautand acum, la batranete, un noroc nou, sa-l pierd pe cel care l-am avut”. Cand aceasta isi urmeaza fiica si ginerele, afirma “Ma duc si eu cu voi si ma duc cu toata inima, cu tot sufletul, cu toata dragostea mamei care incearca norocul copilului iesit in lume”. Naratorul insusi prezinta la inceput moara astfel: “iara pentru Ghita moara era cu noroc”. 5)Compozitia Nuvela e alcatuita din 17 capitole, are o compozitie unitara, inchegata, un conflict riguros constituit, specific nuvelei, tensiunea dramatica culminand gradat in capitolul 16, caruia ii urmeaza deznodamantul. G.Calinescu o prezinta ca pe o capodopera a nuvelisticii romane, “o nuvela solida, cu subiect de roman”. 6)Subiect Expozitiunea il prezinta pe Ghita, om modest si sarac dintr-un sat transilvanean care, dornic sa-si scoata familia din saracie, hotaraste sa ia in arenda carciuma de la moara cu noroc. Intentia sa era sa stranga bani pentru a-si cumpara un atelier cu 10 calfe pentru a deveni un om respectat, deoarece in societatea in care traia, omul nu mai era apreciat pentru calitatile morale, ci pentru avere. Intriga surprinde sosirea lui Lica Samadaul la Moara, porcar, om temut in aceste locuri, care conditioneaza ramanerea lui Ghita la Carciuma de a-i deveni complice. Desfasurarea actiunii surprinde transformarea lui Ghita dintr-un om cinstit, jovial si social intr-un om moracanos, suspicios si introvertit. Actiunea lui Ghita sugereaza ca acesta e domninat de forta malefica a Samadaului: primeste de la Lica 6 porci furati, ii imprumuta bani. Il gazduieste in noaptea in care e pradat arendasul si in care Lica pleaca si se intoarce la han imbracat femeieste, la judecata jura fals salvandu-l inca o data pe Lica. Punctul culminant reda intamplarile tragice din noaptea de Paste, cand Ghita hotaraste sa-l anunte pe Pintea de prezenta lui Lica la han, lasandu-si, ca momeala, sotia in bratele samadaului. La intoarcere, Ghita o ucide pe Ana, citind in ochii ei tradarea, el insusi fiind omorat de Raut din ordinul lui Lica, incendiaza moara. Deznodamantul e tragic, Lica lovindu-se cu capul de trunchiul unui copac pentru a nu fi prins de jandarmul Pintea. A doua zi, pe ruinele morii, batrana spune: “Simteam eu ca n-are sa iasa bine”. Finalul nuvelei, cu pedepsirea tuturor persoanelor care au comis o greseala fatala (hybris), aduce restabilirea ordinii morale. 7)Scurta caracterizare a personajelor In centrul nuvelei se afla drama lui Ghita, prins intr-o situatie fara iesire, intre legile nescrise ale comunitatii talharesti si ordinea juridica a satului. Onest la inceput, harnic, strangator, Ghita devzolta treptat ursuz, cuprins de teama si framantat de indoieli. Se instraineaza de familie, patima pentru bani degradandu-l moral. Dezumanizarea personajului se explica nu doar prin slabiciunea si lipsa de vointa a lui Ghita, ci si prin influenta mediului social in care acesta traieste. Domin de puterea banului si de personalitatea Samadaului, vazand ca necinstea stapaneste drumurile, Ghita crede ca nu onestitatea e criteriul existentei. Sanctiunea finala in numele scriitorului, afirma primatul onestitatii. 8)Tehnici narative Noutatea nuvelei in epoca o reprezinta analiza psihologica intreprinsa de narator. Monologul, introspectia, devin mijloace ale caracterelor psihice, morale. 9)Opinie despre mesaj In opinia mea, aceasta opera sustine teza morala conform careia raul va fi mereu pedepsia intr-o maniera pe care numai Dumnezeu o poate stabili, iar Ghita reprezinta exponentul indeplinirii legilor divine. 10)Concluzia In concluzie, deoarece prezinta zadarnicia patimilor care distrug fiinta umana, cu accent pe analiza vietii interioare a persoanei, opera literara studiata este o nuvela psihologica de factura realista Nu uita sa te abonezi pentru a primi cele mai noi postari direct pe mail! Zillow has 91 homes for sale in Woodland CA. View listing photos, review sales history, and use our detailed real estate filters to find the perfect place. Moved Permanently. The document has moved here. 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You can also search near a city, place, or address instead. The best authentic Thai in Los Angeles! I have travelled to Thailand many times and Woodlands Cafe is by far is the closest to real Thai food there is! After talking with the owner/chef Jari many times, I understood that she takes great concern that the produce she buys is of the best and freshest quality. Jari personally shops daily by herself to make sure the food she serves is of top quality. She is a total foodie and loves to cook and this love is tasted in her yummy dishes! Everything she makes is homemade. I love the coconut Tom Yum soup and the spicy beef with basil. There is a great amount of vegetarian and meat dishes. I love that her Thai food is not Americanized yet Thai food is usually quiet spicy so just ask Jari to tone it down if you don't want anything too spicy. She is happy to adjust recipes for all tastebuds. Please do yourself a favor and go see Jari and enjoy the real Thai deal! Prices are great too and very reasonable! I always believe in 2nd, 3rd and 4th chances.but the change in ownership has taken my favorite, local, family Thai place and made me not want to return. Sloooooowwwww service, food not as good, and not very friendly. All that being said, I'll probably be back again, but I'm the only customer waiting for a salad to go.and it's been over 25 minutes.and I can tell as I've watched it being made that I'm not going to be happy. UPDATE: Alright. I just upped it to 3 stars from 1. I went back to my office and it's the best papaya salad I've ever eaten. She asked if I wanted it spicy and I said yes. Typically when a chef/server asks me that they see a tall, skinny Caucasian dude who THINKS he wants it spicy and I'm usually disappointed. Not this time.she may have been angry at me for ordering, but I am sweating up a storm right now. It's perfect. Alright - maybe the 5th time will be a charm. Visited this lovely place for a meal today but feel sheepish because the menu listed my ordered items for less than what I was actually charged. My wonton soup was listed at $6.95 and my iced tea for $3. Check out how much I was charged for an order of drunken noodles, wonton soup and a Thai iced tea. It didn't help that I was the only customer there with microwave going off in the background. Skeptical as to the level of honesty in this place now. Food quality was not bad, I absolutely adore Thai food and the culture. I cannot get enough. The service was good too but I felt a little cheated with pricing. Poor service during the daytime hours. Elderly woman working the kitchen and the register. Barely speaks English. No customer service whatsoever. Today was the last straw. After attempting to place an order on the phone four times and getting no answer. I stood at the counter for about 5 minutes after the woman made eye contact, while she did something in the kitchen ten feet away. While I waited, I called the number just in case their phone was broken. The phone rang. She just doesn't answer it. No, 'Be right with you.' No, 'Just a minute.' On top of that, this woman (on more than one occasion) has claimed the card reader is broken. She just doesn't know how to use it. I have placed take out orders in the past that I couldn't pick up, because of her ineptitude with the card reader. Rude and unprofessional service. I have to say, HOW does this establishment have 4 stars with over 200 reviews?????!!! Really makes me second guess yelp's credibility. I'm not happy to say this but this has to be THE WORST Thai restaurant I have ever been to. Everything I ordered (panang curry, yellow curry, pad-woon-sen) tasted nothing like it should. It was like a completely different dish! (Yellow was okay - 3 star). But seriously, the pad-woon-sen was watery(?!?!?) and very, very bland. It was pretty much as if they boiled the noodles and vegetables in broth and then served it. The panang curry itself was okay (3-star) but it was served with just curry and protein, no vegetables. The proteins they use, chicken and beef, smelled/tasted like it was freezer-burned. It was disgusting, sadly no other way to put it. I literally had 2 bites, paid the bill, and left. On top of everything, horrible service. When we walked in, the lady and I made eye contact but she didn't welcome/talk to me until a few minutes after. This place also charged for rice when ordering curry which I know some places do, but that being said, this establishment should be a $$ not $. The first meal I had at Woodlands Cafe was in April, 2005, on the night Tippy opened her doors. I've been eating this Thai food for years. Sadly, with a change of ownership, the quality and charm have left as well. Gone are the days of clean-tasting, delicious, inexpensive Thai food with genuine and meaningful service. What's left is what I will outline below: A PRICE INCREASE (In the last 2 years): What used to be a $6.50 dish is now $8.45. Thai Iced Tea/Coffee has DOUBLED in price. A DECREASE IN QUALITY: I had Pad See Ew, a favorite. What used to be flavorful, clean, not-oily noodles with well steamed broccoli and fried tofu is now a mess of similar-looking, but distinctly flavorless, food. The charm of the restaurant is diminished as well. No longer are Thai chilis growing outside and artwork hanging on the walls. Instead there are blank walls with sloppy looking displays. POOR SERVICE: There was 1 person working the whole restaurant! This would be bad in itself, but to worsen the reality, she barely spoke english. To add to the poor service point, the owner is extremely defensive online. So I expect to be told how wrong I am in writing this review. Alas, I'm not Thai. But this is a far cry from proper Thai food. I wouldn't recommend dining in here. Came on Friday night around 6pm and we were only one of two groups eating in. 8 small egg rolls arrived within 5 minutes. The rest of the food? We wouldn't know. Half an hour goes by, so we asked when our order would be ready, and we were told it would be another 20 minutes (they hadn't even started cooking it!). They were busy with phone orders so not sure what kind of priority our order got. But 50 minutes wait for dining in? Two stars instead of one because they wouldn't let us pay for egg rolls when we cancelled the rest of the order. Free Streaming Online Video with English subtitles ready for download The Last Dragonslayer1/24/2018 In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. 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After Soviet troops left Afghanistan and toward the United States after American troops entered Saudi Arabia. Key advisers to George W. Bush recognized this. Forces overthrew Saddam in 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said one of the benefits “that has gone by almost unnoticed—but it’s huge—is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. And the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia.” The United States, he reasoned, had thus eliminated “a huge recruiting device for al-Qaeda.” The Islamic State was bombing Russia because Russia had bombed it. The problem was that to remove thousands of troops from Saudi Arabia, the United States sent more than 100,000 to invade and occupy Iraq. A dramatic surge in terrorist attacks against American and allied forces ensued. As Robert Pape, the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism at the University of Chicago, has enumerated, the world witnessed 343 suicide attacks from 1980 to 2003, about 10 percent of them against America and its allies. From 2004 to 2010, by contrast, there were more than 2,400 such attacks worldwide, more than 90 percent of them against American and coalition forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Many of those attacks were orchestrated by al-Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate, which in 2006 established the Islamic State of Iraq. After weakening in 2007 and 2008 (when the U.S. Paid Sunni tribal leaders to fight jihadists), the Islamic State strengthened again as the Obama administration’s inattention allowed Iraq’s Shia prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, to intensify his persecution of Sunnis. Then, after Syrians rebelled against Bashar al-Assad, the Islamic State expanded across Iraq’s western border into Syria, later renaming itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Significantly, when the last American troops left Iraq, in December 2011, isis did not follow them home. “In its various incarnations,” notes Daniel Byman, a counterterrorism expert who is a professor at Georgetown, the Islamic State “focused first and foremost on its immediate theater of operations.” Although isis was happy if people inspired by its message struck Western targets, it made little effort to orchestrate such attacks. Research fellows at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment detected only four isis-related plots in the West from January 2011 to May 2014. But beginning in the fall of 2014, the number of isis-related plots in the West spiked. The Norwegian researchers counted 26 from July 2014 to June 2015 alone. What explains the rise? The most plausible explanation is that the Islamic State started targeting Western countries because they had started targeting it. In August 2014, the United States began bombing isis targets to protect the Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq, which isis was threatening with extermination. France joined the air campaign the following month. Since then, isis seems to have moved from merely inspiring attacks against the West to actively planning them. November’s attacks in Paris, writes Byman, were the “first time that isis has devoted significant resources to a mass-casualty attack in Europe.” Afterward, isis released a video warning the people of France: “As long as you keep bombing you will not find peace.”. In the wake of the Paris attacks, the Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio declared that the reason isis targets the West is “because we have freedom of speech, because we have diversity in our religious beliefs because we’re a tolerant society.” Yet only weeks earlier, isis had downed a Russian airliner over the Sinai, thus targeting the distinctly intolerant regime of Vladimir Putin. The Islamic State’s justification for that attack was identical to the one it gave for its attack on France: It was bombing Russia because Russia had bombed it. All of which suggests that the more America intensifies its war against isis, the more isis will try to strike Americans. And the more terrorism isis manages to carry out, the more fiercely America will escalate its air attacks, thus creating the civilian casualties that, according to the International Crisis Group’s Noah Bonsey, “tremendously help the narrative of a jihadi group like the Islamic State.” If the public reaction to Paris and the December attack in San Bernardino is any guide, continued jihadist terrorism will also lead to a rising demand for American ground troops. That, argues the French isis expert Jean-Pierre Filiu, would be the worst trap America could fall into, because isis wants to cast itself as the Islamic world’s defender against a new crusader invasion. D espite these dangers, there is a case for attacking isis. Part of it is humanitarian: Millions of people now live in a caliphate in which many women cannot leave their homes unless accompanied by a man, and religious minorities can be sold as slaves. Allowing isis to expand, and potentially threaten Jordan or Saudi Arabia, would produce misery on an epic scale, intensify the refugee crisis already roiling Europe, and destroy America’s reputation as the underwriter of Middle Eastern order. But the war isn’t being sold on these grounds. The presidential candidates are not telling Americans that a greater short-term terrorist threat is the price they must pay to liberate oppressed Arabs, protect friendly regimes, and prevent a greater danger down the road. Instead, candidates are promising, at least implicitly, that if America intensifies its war, the terrorist threat will decrease. What happens when they’re proved wrong? In a political environment where candidates won’t admit that isis attacks are partly a response, albeit a monstrous one, to the United States’ own use of force, further attacks will leave Americans even more bewildered and terrified than they are now. Some will gravitate to politicians who promise that with greater force, including ground troops, they can deliver a decisive military victory. Other Americans, desperate for a quick fix, will support further assaults on the rights of Muslims in the United States. Both impulses will help the Islamic State. And America will slide deeper into the terror trap. The core problem is that most politicians are still selling war on the cheap. They won’t admit that, no matter how convinced Americans may be of their good intentions, the violence the U.S. Inflicts overseas will lead others to try to do violence to it. The more fervently the U.S. Tries to kill isis supporters, the more fervently they will try to kill Americans. And in today’s interconnected world, they will have more opportunities to strike than ever before. Wars, even necessary ones, are usually costly for both sides. If the men and women running for president won’t admit that, they shouldn’t be demanding war at all. Donald Trump triggered yet another round of furious Twitterology this weekend when, in the midst of a tweetstorm defending himself against Michael Wolff’s blockbuster book, “Fire and Fury,” that “throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” That, plus the follow-up that he is in fact a “,” sent the Twitterverse into a tizzy. And just like the December tweet from the @realDonaldTrump account stating that Michael Flynn “pled guilty” to lying to the FBI, many observers picked up on the use of a single word. Last time, that word was “pled” (which I wrote about and ), but this time it was another four-letter item: “like,” set off with commas. I’ve never met or interviewed Donald Trump, though like most of the world I feel amply exposed to his outlooks and styles of expression. So I can’t say whether, in person, he somehow conveys the edge, the sparkle, the ability to connect, the layers of meaning that we usually associate with both emotional and analytical intelligence. But I have had the chance over the years to meet and interview a large sampling of people whom the world views the way Trump views himself. That is, according to this morning’s dispatches, as “like, really smart,” and “genius.” In current circumstances it’s relevant to mention what I’ve learned this way.Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards—hosted by Seth Meyers—saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri emerge as a surprising Oscar frontrunner after winning four trophies, including Best Picture (Drama), at a charged ceremony dominated by discussion of Hollywood’s power imbalances and the #MeToo movement. Films like Lady Bird and The Shape of Water also won big, and shows like Big Little Lies, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel did well in the TV categories. But the ceremony’s most memorable moment came in an honorary award for Oprah Winfrey, who spoke out on the industry’s issues with misogyny, sexual abuse, and the ongoing lack of diversity in Hollywood's corridors of power. Read more updates below, or check out ourof the evening. It was undeniably the most electrifying moment of the 2018 Golden Globes: Oprah Winfrey, the actor, author, entrepreneur, and humanitarian, accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contributions to entertainment, and gave a speech that captured the systemic inequality that’s still rooted at the heart of the entertainment industry. But Winfrey’s speech also offered a note of hope. It will be women, she said, who “become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.” Her words prompted a flood of speculation that Winfrey might be mulling an entry into politics, but more importantly, they captured the complicated dynamics of an evening where virtually all the women present were wearing black. “I can handle things. Not like everybody says, like dumb. I’m smart and I want respect!” This morning’s presidential Twitter outburst recalls those words of Fredo Corleone’s in from The Godfather series. Trump that his “two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” and in called himself a “very stable genius.” Trump may imagine that he’s Michael Corleone, the tough and canny rightful heir—or even Sonny Corleone, the terrifyingly violent but at least powerful heir apparent—but after today he is Fredo forever. There’s a key difference between film and reality, though: The Corleone family had the awareness and vigilance to exclude Fredo from power. The American political system did not do so well. Here is the news: Logan Paul, a social-media star with, recently visited Aokigahara, a dense forest known as the “Sea of Trees” on the northwestern side of Mount Fuji. Aokigahara is beautiful, but also infamous; for at least a half-century, it has been a popular destination. Soon after entering the forest, Paul encountered a man’s dead body, apparently killed by suicide, and he made it the centerpiece of a nervous video, apparently intended to be humorous, that he posted to YouTube on December 31. “Yo, are you alive?” Paul shouts at the body, early in the video. “Are you fucking with us?” The 15-minute video was taken down Tuesday. Since its posting, the familiar cycle of Horrific Internet Content has played out: scathing criticism from all sides; the deletion of the video from YouTube, an apology from Paul (defensive, in writing); a second apology from Paul (tearful, on camera); and finally a comment from YouTube. It would all feel routine if not for the macabre video at the center, which highlights the lack of oversight in the online fame machine. This is the first installment in an ongoing series examining kids’ worldviews and how they are shaped. When the sociolinguist Calvin Gidney saw The Lion King in theaters two decades ago, he was struck by the differences between Mufasa and Scar. The characters don’t have much in common: Mufasa is heroic and steadfast, while Scar is cynical and power-hungry. But what Gidney noticed most was how they each spoke: Mufasa has an American accent, while Scar, the lion of the dark side, roars in British English. In in which Scar accuses Simba of being the “ murderer!” responsible for Mufasa’s death, the final “r” in his declaration floats up into a sky bursting with lightning, and it’s hard to imagine it sounding quite as monstrous in another tone. Three months ago, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New York Times unloaded about Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of sexual aggressiveness and abuse, the depth of detail made the story unforgettable—and as it turned out, historic. Real women went on the record, using their real names, giving specific dates and times and circumstances of what Weinstein had said or done to them. Of the reactions that flowed from this and parallel accounts—about Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly in the Fox empire, or Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose in mainstream TV, or Kevin Spacey and Louis CK in the film world, or Michael Oreskes and John Hockenberry in public radio, or Mark Halperin and Leon Weiseltier in print and political media, and down the rest of the list—one response was particularly revealing. It was that the behavior in question had been an “.”. When Travis Busch graduated from high school in Jefferson, Iowa, in 1999, he followed many of his classmates on the well-plotted and well-trod path to college. Busch took classes at Iowa Central Community College during the day and worked part-time at night on the floor of a local factory that made stock tanks for horse and cattle farms. But after a year and a half in college, he dropped out to work full time. “I didn’t want to go to college in the first place,” he said. “I was already making money. I didn’t see why I needed it.” Fast-forward to January 2017. The factory where Busch worked was sold to a company that moved its operations to Kentucky and laid off the workers in Iowa. Before he lost his job, Busch met with local workforce officials who presented him three options: apply for an apprenticeship, go back to college, or try his luck on the job market with only a high-school diploma. While driving at night in a lonely road, the car of the estranged couple Don (David James Elliott) and Nancy (Heather Marsden) is hit twice by another car in the middle of nowhere. Nancy asks for help and the unpleasant sheriff Cleveland (Jeff Fahey) offers to take them to the nearby Motel Royal Vista and wait until the morning, when their car would be towed.. When the couple arrives in the low-budget and foxy motel, they are attended by a weird receptionist. They are disturbed by noises and screams inside the next door room and Don asks them to keep quieter since his wife and he are tired and need to rest. But sooner they realize that they are part of a sick and deadly game, and their lives are threatened by sickos led by Cleveland and his partner Carter (Michael Madsen). 'Terror Trap' is a lame rip-off of 'Vacancy', with terrible story, characters and acting. The plot has several holes and the conclusion is absurd and apparently with no consequences to the creepy and sadistic participants and the victims of the sick game. Nancy is one of the most detestable and annoying characters I have ever seen, especially considering that she is leading lady of the story. I was cheering for her to be killed and vanish. Michael Madsen is a one-dimensional actor, repeating his performance in 'Reservoir Dogs' is many low-budget movies. My advice: better off watching 'Vacancy' again than spending time with 'Terror Trap'. My vote is two. Title (Brazil): 'Nao Ha Vagas' ('No Vacancy'). They should've sold this script as Vacancy 3. A couple who are having marital problems are involved in a crash on a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere. The other driver takes off. Cue the creepy Sheriff (Jeff Fahey) who recommends staying at a dodgy motel up the road until they can arrange a tow. Cue the creepy guy behind the counter who don't much like them city folk. Break out the guys in masks, the disturbance in the room next door, the loud banging, the awful realisation that they're being watched and then introduce the sicko's who are viewing this snuff for their own sick pleasure. The only differences between Terror Trap and Vacancy are the use of a sinister Sheriff as opposed to a smiley Gas Station Attendant and the fact that the snuff customers are watching a live feed of the mayhem as opposed to buying the videos. Cue Michael Madsen as the dude in charge. I'm a huge Tarantino fan and I have oodles of respect for Michael Madsen, but someone seriously needs to tell that guy to stop playing Mr Blonde in every movie. Whether he's playing a good guy or bad guy, his persona is always the same. Although, he was quite different when he played the lovable cat burglar in Heart and Souls. Wait a minute. That was Tom Sizemore. I have a newfound appreciation for Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale's performances in Vacancy. I couldn't bring myself to care even slightly about the main couple. The woman, Nancy, is the most unlikeable heroin I've seen for a long time. About 10 minutes into the movie I started preying for her to get brutally slashed to death, just to shut her up. The only reason I made it to the end of this film is because it hadn't been reviewed on IMDb yet. That's how bored I was. My review is quite generous. Save yourself! Check out my IMDb List for some better suggestions. 'HORROR/THRILLER: Obscure, Overlooked & Underrated' http://www.imdb.com/list/8QFZ78e4Ar8/. I do not know how Michael Madsen and Jeff Fahey have ended up in this cheaply and obviously independently produced rip-off of 'Vacancy'. There are no surprises in here, but the main actors give a solid performance, especially Fahey and Elliott, and the technical quality and directing are not that bad. I found it fairly enjoyable for what it is. A bit more originality, and it actually could have become something. Watching it without having seen 'Vacancy' might be OK, but then the experience of 'Vacancy' will be spoiled. If you have a choice, go for 'Vacancy'. If you liked 'Vacancy' so much that you would like to see it one more time with different actors and on a lower budget, it's your responsibility. Avoid it, if you have something better to do, though. Terror Trap starts late one night as squabbling married couple Don (David James Elliott) & Nancy (Heather Marie Marsden) drive through the isolated back-roads of a small Louisiana town called Santa Parish on their way to a casino in Marksville, suddenly a car crashes into them & speeds off leaving Don & Nancy stranded in the woods. They call 911 for help & Sheriff Cleveland Taylor (Jeff Fahey) arrives, Taylor drives Don & Nancy to a nearby motel, the Royal Vista which is a rundown dump. Don & Nancy are given a room but soon discover that the owners are playing a sick game in which the motel is used to snuff films & the paying guests used as unwilling stars. Written, produced & directed by Dan Garcia this film could quite easily be thought as of a cheap low budget remake of Vacancy (2007) as the two are so similar, from the big city couple checking into a rundown motel in the middle of nowhere to their terrorisation & attempts to kill them by the owners for profit & the eventual turning of the tables by the resourceful city folk. Now I will list what I liked about Terror Trap, firstly I appreciated the fact that it lasted just under 75 minutes, secondly I liked that the main city couple were adults rather than dumb teens & I liked the feisty Nancy who had a lot of personality & gave as good as she got in some amusing verbal sparring between herself & Don, she almost made this watchable. You see what I didn't like far outweighs what I did. Even at only 75 minutes in length Terror Trap takes ages to get going, it's forty odd minutes before the city folk realise what's going on & the onslaught begins, the body count is really low & the gore is none existent, the plot mechanics are never adequately explained, who is in charge of the operation? Why ran Don & Nancy off the road? Are they making snuff films? Is it being streamed across the internet? How do they make their money? There's about eight people who watch monitors of what's going on but surely they wouldn't make much from that? What are these people paying for? Do they participate or not? Do they just get to watch? What do the van load of women have to do with anything? Who is Michael Madsen in this exactly? Who is the guy he blow's up at the end? The whole film feels unfinished, the film feels like a first draft without the finer points of the plot fleshed out. The film feels a lot like Vacancy. I already said that didn't I? Well, it's worth repeating. Basically I liked Nancy as a surprisingly strong & well rounded character but not much else. Gore fans will be disappointed with Terror Trap, there really is no gore to speak of & the potential was there for some torture scenes but no-one is ever shown being killed apart from a few of the bad guy's at the end & even then it's just a few bullet wounds rather than memorable gory death's. There's no sex or nudity either. The film looks alright, there's some annoying black and white ultra quick edited supposedly stylised sequences that just irritate as you can't really tell what's going on. As a whole Terror Trap is competent but little else & the lack of gore in a supposed torture pron film such as this is unforgivable, isn't it? There's no tension or scares, the seemingly random attacks on Don & Nancy are pathetic with a few guy's in animal mask's chasing them but making no real attempt to kill them for reason never really explained. With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 one has to ask where the money went, it certainly wasn't on special effects & considering the types of films they lower themselves to make these days it couldn't have been on Michael Madsen or Jeff Fahey's fee. Fahey is quite good here actually, we never really find that much about him out & Michael Madsen's character seems almost irrelevant to be honest (I don't even remember him getting a name) although it's always nice to see a couple of pro's even if it's in junk like Terror Trap. Terror Trap (which sounds a lot like Tourist Trap (1979)) is a total rip-off of Vacancy, the two films could have been made from the same script with minimal changes. This is far too tame & forgettable to make any sort of impact, at least it's short & Heather Marie Marsden as Nancy gives it her all but when all said & done give this one a miss. Where do I start with Terror Trap AKA Error Crap. My goodness, this movie is a utter failure in movie making. I don't mind the everything they stole from Vacancy. No sir, that's fine. What I mind, however, was the illogical plot line, the amateur hour actors and the lack of any sort of gore. The plot line might be similar to Vacancy but the execution was much worse. For those who want to see Michael Madsen, don't. His presence in this movie is completely useless. In fact, the movie will make more sense if he's not in it. It seems they just inserted him in so that they can have Michael Madsen in the credit. For those looking for gore, forget about it. This movie has none. It's basically as tame as Die Hard. Guys either get killed by guns or knives. And they don't show the killing scene. A complete and utter failure of movie making, I can't stress that enough. In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery. Balkan explains that the book was written by the writer Aristide Torchia, in 1666, with Lucifer and he was burned at the stake with his entire work. There are only three exemplars of The Nine Gates and in accordance with the legend, its nine engravings form a riddle to conjure the devil. The skeptical Corso accepts the assignment and has to fly to Sintra, Portugal, and Paris, France, to contact the owners Victor Fargas and Baroness Kessler and find the genuine exemplar for Balkan. Meanwhile, he asks Bernie to hide the rare book. Jan 11, 2012 Johnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski's thriller, THE NINTH GATE. Depp stars as Dean. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the The Ninth Gate article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. Jul 17, 2000 Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy The Ninth Gate directed by Roman Polanski for $7.99. Before traveling to Europe, the widow Liana Telfer wants to retrieve the book and has sex with Corso, but. I just got finished reading some of the other threads that discuss this movie. They ranged from the angst ridden youth spouting off about how there was no action, to those who truly loved this movie. I know that this movie is practically 5 years old, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I am an avid horror fan. I love everything from slasher movies to the silent films from the 1920's. I admit, when I saw this movie in the theater, I was very disappointed. I think I was expecting some whiz-bang battle with the devil at the end, and for those of you who've seen this flick you know that this is not how it ends. Now, almost 5 years later, I own and watch this film very frequently. Now that I have seen this movie numerous times, I can appreciate the creepy atmosphere and the deep storyline. I have even said to myself 'How could they have ended this movie differently in a way that I would be completely satisfied (other than the way they did)?' I couldn't answer that question. For those who have only seen this once, take the time to watch it again with different expectations. I know that there are some who will never like this movie, To each his/her own, but I am very glad that I took the time to see this one again because as it stands now, it will have a locked spot in my top 10. |
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