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MOVIE REVIEW // APOLLO 18
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What is so hard to watch that it makes you want to drip blood in your eyeballs while eating cute kittens just to make it stop? I don't know, but it's significantly better than "Apollo 18."
A secret final mission to the moon has ended tragically for all three astronauts, mostly because they had to fight aliens. Because there are aliens on the moon. The government tried to cover it up and failed, because someone found the secret footage and uploaded it to the always reliable Internet. Also, the Russians landed on the moon. That sentence might seem extraneous within the context of this review, but at least then I'm giving you a good feel for the movie.
By the end it appears the astronauts are ready to protect the world from both aliens and Russia. If an ironic "USA!" chant existed in fake 1972, then this would be an appropriate time for it.
The rapid editing is unusual for a found-footage film, and its voyeuristic feel doesn't create empathy for the characters. None of the characters seem real or even different from each other. This especially hurts the
film when it tries to get emotional toward its conclusion, but by that time it's fallen so far in a crater, nothing would help it escape. This voyeurism reaches its peak when the alien zombie astronaut, Nate, looks directly into one of the 300 cameras abroared the lunar lander and bashes it with a hammer; a symbolic gesture that echoes what's been happening to the viewer for the past hour.
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MOVIE REVIEW // THE WHISTLEBLOWER >Hollywood hits, indie flicks, and everything in between.
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Larysa Kondracki's "The Whistleblower" is an abysmal rarity. It's a conspiracy thriller lacking any real thrills. This grim, plodding indictment of the United Nation's handling of post-war Bosnia squanders the considerable talents of its cast and sends the audience out of the theater feeling anesthetized rather than enlightened. The 20-year saga of underage human trafficking in Bosnia is a tragic subject ripe for dramatization, but it deserves far better than this.
Rachel Weisz plays Kathryn Bolkovac, a plucky Nebraskan policewoman volunteering
for the international peacekeeping force in Bosnia only to uncover a flourishing sex trade. Weisz, essentially reprising her "Constant Gardener," succeeds in injecting the role with her usual heroic intensity. But the contrived script tries to reduce her struggle for justice into a simplistic crusade.
The film has no shortage of fine performers doing their best to overcome the material. David Strathairn radiates noble exhaustion as an Internal Affairs agent and a hagard-looking Monica Bellucci appears as a devious bureaucrat. The great Vanessa Redgrave, unfortunately, barely registers in a do-nothing role as Kathryn's mentor.
The bleak Romanian landscape where the movie was shot almost warrants a character mention of its own, infusing the film with a suitably dreary atmosphere.
Based on true events in the late 1990s, the film's subject matter would lend itself better to the documentary format, where drama is mined instead of manufactured. What happened to these young women is horrifying. The only moments of real power come when their suffering is laid bare.
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★ ★ ☆ | LANDON MCDONALD
The Jayhawks scored a major victory against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in a 28-25 upset last September. This season, however, Georgia Tech's offense is even more dangerous than ever.
"decade of dominance" is one of the bigger fallacies of my lifetime. That dominance included a Fiesta Bowl win and a single Big 12 championship, but conference foes Oklahoma and Nebraska won a combined four national championships while Kansas State was apparently dominating them. Wildcat coach Bill Snyder is good, but he hasn't won a bowl game since 2002, so let's not pretend Kansas State football is bringing anything to the table in regards to conference realignment. And save the Kansas football jokes, because the Orange Bowl wasn't that long ago and a blue blood basketball program and top five rivalry trump the other Kansas school.
So if the Oklahoma schools apply for admission and are accepted to the Pac-12, Kansas and Missouri would be making mistakes if they weren't asking to be next. If nothing else, fans and writers alike could take winter trips to Tempe and Santa Monica instead of Syracuse and Cincinnati.
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gain the jpm team them even more dangerous than last year's team that was upset by the Jawhawks.
"He's special. He was a good player last year and we had to kind of hold on to our britches just to keep containing," Defensive Coordinator Vic Shealy said. "He got behind our safety last year for a big play."
The Yellow Jackets still run the triple option offense, but have been hitting big plays through the air with junior receiver Stephen Hill.
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Hill leads the Yellow jackets' receivers with 307 yards and three touchdowns, but even more impressive is his 43.9 average yards per catch.
"It's more dangerous when they have more than just the run game coming at you. We have to prepare for everything so I think we'll be OK," Keeston Terry, freshman receiver, said.
Hill is the lone offensive leader from the 2010 Yellow Jackets to return, after quarterback Joshua
Washington is primarily the passing quarterback, throwing for 473 yards, but Days is the leading rusher for the Yellow Jackets, with 29 carries and 146 yards.
he hasn't misused a beat, their rushing attack ranks third in the nation, averaging 339.5 yards per game, and their passing offense ranks 23rd, averaging 289.5 yards per game.
"Guys have to show up and make plays," Bradley McDougall, junior safety, said. "If you're the quarterback player, then you have to be able to tackle him, because if he breaks your tackle, he's going to be able to run for another four or five yards and be able to pick up the first down. Guys are definitely going to have to make plays in the open field."
Last week, the Jayhawks struggled to defend the pass, allowing Chandler Harnish to accumulate 315 yards through the air. Georgia Tech's option offense relies heavily on the run, which could tip the scales in favor of the
Jayhawks' defense that has been tough against opposing tailbacks, allowing Northern Illinois tailbacks only 58 yards last week.
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"That is the whole crutch of
handing the option is that you have to be assignment oriented." Shealy said. "I think when you look at assignments, by nature it slows you down a little bit, and
we want guys playing free and fast and canceling gaps and pushing the ball to the sideline."
Edited by Jonathan Shorman