Bully (2012) The Weinstein Company 1 hr. 34 mins. Starring: various Directed by: Lee Hirsch MPAA Rating: NR Genre: Documentary Critic’s Rating: *** stars (out of 4 stars) Filmmaker Lee Hirsch’s stark documentary Bully is a different kind of horror show that is profoundly riveting in its chilling reality. Hirsch’s absorbing narrative is a reminder that we are living in very cynical and distrusting times. The insensitivity and intolerance that human beings demonstrate towards one another is a divisive societal disease that is so common in today’s headlines.
Stardust memories: The film now has become an essential part of Woody Allen’s work and will be used as a film that captures a certain turning point of his career. Given that adds to the value as the fan base will look at the film very differently than they did back then. ‘“Stardust Memories” is a disappointment. It needs some larger idea, some sort of organizing force, to pull together all these scenes of bitching and moaning, and make them lead somewhere.’ - Roger Ebert January 1, 1980
The Boondock Saints The film opens with the twin brothers Connor and Murphy attending a church service in Boston. They work in a meat plant and live in a poor neighborhood. The brothers went to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with their friends, when suddenly few Russian mobs enter the bar and start telling everyone to get out and leave. They decide to take over the bar exactly on St. Patrick’s Day. Connor and Murphy and their friend started a fight with the Russians, which ended in beating the Russians.
As awful as Ed Gein was, some look at him at as a hero. He has been used as inspiration for movies like Norman Bates in Psycho, Leather face in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. They glorify a person that killed people. Ed Gein was one of the most awful murders of our time. He was mentally unstable due to his upbringing and abusive father.
The sniper, Bertis, explains his motives to the group and a teenager, Max, blindly finds his way to the hotel lounge after chemicals get into his eyes and all over his skin. In the final chapter, The View from Daffy Ducks hole, Karen, the single mother, tends to Max’s wounds. Upon Rachel’s discovery that Bertis is Leslie Freemont’s son, she is shot in the chest, but does not die. The sniper, however, dies from an allergic reaction when he uses the rifle Rick sprinkled with peanut dust. Player One then reflects on the novel and reveals the groups fate.
George and Lennie ate beans in the campsite in both the novel and the movie. Lennie tried to sneak the dog into the bunk house and George made him put it back. Lennie, in both the novel and the movie, had the same exact characteristics. He was always acting like a child and had very little clue of what was going on around him. Lennie also killed Curley’s Wife in both of them.
The killer ends up killing Ralph Cottle inside of Billys house and then leaves before the Billy comes inside the house to find the corpse of Ralph. Billy is frantic and finds a way to dispose of Lanny and Ralphs body before anyone discovers they are missing. The killer then threatens to kill his fiance Barbara who is in a coma at the hospital. Billy goes through several clues to who he thinks the killer is and tortures Steve Zillis his co-worker.
Smith wants to amend Hickock's confession to state that he, Smith, killed all four Clutters. His reason for this, he claims, is to give Hickock's mother peace of mind. Dewey refuses this request. Smith and Hickock continue their mutual love-hate relationship, wherein each annoys and disgusts the other, but they are tied by this act of murder and their own insecurities. Dr. Jones, a court-appointed psychiatrist, asks the two to write their life histories.
When Paul Baldino heard Peter Sissen's story, he swore that he would get inside the Lisbons' house and see things even more unthinkable than Sissen had. "I'm going to watch those girls taking their showers," he vowed. Already, at the age of fourteen, Paul Baldino had the gangster gut and hit-man face of his father, Sammy "the Shark" Baldino, and of all the men who entered and exited the big Baldino house with the two lions carved in stone beside the front steps. He moved with the sluggish swagger of urban predators who smelled of cologne and had manicured nails. We were frightened of him, and of his imposing doughy cousins, Rico Manollo and Vince Fusilli, and not only because his house appeared in the paper every so often, or because of the bulletproof black limousines that glided up the circular drive ringed with laurel trees imported from Italy, but because of the dark circles under his eyes and his mammoth hips and his brightly polished black shoes which he wore even playing baseball.
“Harvey’s Dream” by Stephen King starts out on a Saturday morning with Janet and her husband of thirty years, Harvey. Janet turns around from the sink and sees her husband sitting at the kitchen table in a t-shirt and boxers. With the help of Janet’s inner dialogue, you discover that their marriage is boring and lifeless; after raising and marrying off three girls, the marriage that Janet wants is nowhere to be seen. The couple even sleeps in different bedrooms in the summer because of Janet’s allergies. Interrupting her thoughts, Harvey says he woke himself up screaming from a nightmare.