A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
When the dreamy high school star quarterback crashes (literally) into her life, a precocious high school cheerleader's dream of escaping her small town and earning a coveted dance scholarship to CalArts is thrown into question.
哈利波特(丹尼尔?雷德克里夫 Daniel Radcliffe 饰)结束了假期,即将回到霍格沃兹继续学习魔法。一个叫多比的家养小精灵警告哈利不要回到霍格沃兹,否则会陷入极大的危险。哈利没有听从多比的劝告,回到了霍格沃兹。很快,霍格沃兹发生了一连窜怪事:接二连三出现学生被石化,一直找不出原因。而哈利总能听到一种奇怪的声音,从墙壁里传出来。
传说,霍格沃兹有一个密室,里面记录着伏地魔年轻时的秘密,只有斯莱特林的人才能打开密室。哈利偶然发现自己能听懂蛇说话,一时传闻是哈利打开了密室。难道多比所指的危险就隐藏在密室?
哈利波特(丹尼尔?雷德克里夫 Daniel Radcliffe 饰)结束了假期,即将回到霍格沃兹继续学习魔法。一个叫多比的家养小精灵警告哈利不要回到霍格沃兹,否则会陷入极大的危险。哈利没有听从多比的劝告,回到了霍格沃兹。很快,霍格沃兹发生了一连窜怪事:接二连三出现学生被石化,一直找不出原因。而哈利总能听到一种奇怪的声音,从墙壁里传出来。
传说,霍格沃兹有一个密室,里面记录着伏地魔年轻时的秘密,只有斯莱特林的人才能打开密室。哈利偶然发现自己能听懂蛇说话,一时传闻是哈利打开了密室。难道多比所指的危险就隐藏在密室?
改遍自Jeff Hobbs的传记作品《The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace》这本书的主人公是一个新泽西州纽瓦克贫民窟里长大的男孩子,名叫罗伯特皮斯。他被耶鲁大学生物学专业录取,却在三十岁的时候,在贩毒帮派的斗殴中暴死街头。故事以罗伯特的耶鲁室友为叙述者,以旁观者的角度讲述了这个看似从原生阶级逆袭,而依然无法逃离悲剧命运的故事。The story of an inner-city Newark kid who attends Yale yet ultimately suc cumbs to harsh economic realities and the demons of his past.
This is not a large scale multi-million dollar epic of World War Two. No thousands of extras, no wide panoramic sweep of battle scenes. This says more about The Battle of the Bulge than the movie of the same name. It's just an ordinary black and white M.G.M. production. What it lacks in size and scope it makes up for in impact.A simple story very well told, of a squad of GI's of the 101st Airborne Division, thrown into the maelstrom that was the German offensive in the Ardennes in December of 1944 against the Allied ground forces.
It's hard to believe that this film was not shot on location; but on a Metro sound stage. And Metro's Culver City was turned into the only outdoor location for the snow-covered, rubble-strewn town of Bastogne under siege, which was tenaciously held by the 101st, under the command of Brig. General Anthony McAuliffe.
With the exception of Van Johnson as Pvt. Holly who was high profile on the Metro lot in his time, and George Murphy as Pvt. Stazak, the rest of the cast were character-type actors who filled their roles perfectly. James Whitmore as Sgt. Kinnie is drilling the squad in the opening scenes.
The squad members talk of an enjoyable furlough in Paris which is suddenly cut short by the German breakthrough in the Ardenne. Ptv. Stazak hopes of going home are dashed because his authorised documents have not come through before the squad moves up front. Douglas Fowley as Pvt. Kippton seems to be the best in the squad at bellyaching.Maybe it's his dentures that make him a sourpuss. But Fowley's dentures turn into a class act; clicking away to the old song, "I Surrender Dear," through the courtesy of a German propaganda broadcast heard over the radio in a Sherman tank. Denise Darcel comes as a welcome relief of feminine pleasure; not out of place in the town of Bastogne itself. In an indoor scene, Pvt. Holly's eyeballs go into left-to-right overdrive as he stares at Denise's buxom rear end descending a flight of stairs. Then there's Holly again, nursing stolen newly-laid eggs, as valuable as gold nuggets. He's about to scramble them over a fire when the squad is told to saddle up and move out. Not for the first time does Johnson (Pvt. Holly) yell, "oh no!" A expression he's used in past movies also. The broken eggs in his upturned helmet are now a problem. In the end it's disaster. The German artillery scramble the eggs for Holly. Problem solved!
On a three man patrol, Holly, Hodiak as Janness, Montalban as Rodriguez, intercept and force a jeep carrying a Major and two sergeants to stop and identify themselves. The knowledge that Germans are infiltrating in GI uniforms has made the patrol suspicious so the Major is asked how the Dodgers made out in 1944. The Major hesitates,but the Sergeant in the rear seat asks Holly who Betty Grable is married to. Montalban shouts back, "Cesar Romero". The Major says Romero is out. "Betty Grable is married to Harry James". The tense atmosphere relaxes. The patrol is convinced they're friendly.
What is displayed authentically on this studio sound stage is the icy, bone-chilling atmosphere of the battlefield. The men hunkered down; the deeper the better, in their foxholes. Throughout nearly all this movie there is the constant rise and fall in the background of continuous artillery fire, like a rolling thunder. It never seems to cease. Sometimes it's close, sometimes distant. That, along with the freezing fog hanging like a thick whitish-grey blanket in the air, enveloping everything, gives off an atmosphere of crisis; a feeling of fearful tension. The men endeavour to dispel the fear with humour. Waiting and wondering when the enemy will appear ghost-like out of the mist-shrouded forest.
Near the end of the movie, Leon Ames gives a good performance as a Army Chaplain. Trying to explain the reason for this necessary trip to Europe, to kill off a murderous political system that has already killed off millions. Before the end, the tables turn in the Allies favour. Sergeant Kinnie notices his shadow against the snow. The sun is breaking through and the mist rises. Allied tactical air power is back in business again with a vengeance.
Veteran director William Wellman was not found wanting when he directed this movie. He had already proved himself with, "The Story of GI Joe", in 1945. Antiwar film? Any war film well made and convincing can be antiwar, and you do not need blood all over the silver screen to prove it. Antiwar or not, World War Two was a "popular" war. The reasons stuck out a mile. The Army Chaplain said so in so many words.
The Ardennes offensive caught the Allies unawares. By late 1944, battered the German forces may have been. But they still had a few nasty shots in their locker to scare the living daylights out of the Allied Command. We thought the Germans had run out of fighting steam, but old Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt thought different.