Rated PG-13, directed by Joe Johnston, with: Sam Neill (Dr Alan Grant, William H. Macy (Paul Kirby), Tea Leoni (Amanda Kirby) and Alessandro Nivola (Billy Brennan), running time: 90 minutes.
The Dolby sound system is pushed to its low frequency limit as it pumps out the stomp ... stomp of approaching Mesozoic death in Jurassic Park 3. That probably sounds exciting, if you haven't already seen the two previous Jurassic Park movies. In the latest sequel, Dr Grant (Sam Neill) reluctantly returns to the forsaken island, on which he previously almost met his end, as part of a research expedition. As luck would have it, their plane crashes on the island and within seconds all involved are scurrying from carnivorous dinosaurs. Jurassic Park 3 relies heavily on booming footsteps and frenzied races through dense foliage, but despite the tired plot, the movie is quite entertaining and moves about as fast as any one would in the opposite direction of a dreaded velociraptor.
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Michael slides a sequin glove over the pop star’s tarnished legacy, shrouding Michael Jackson’s complications with a conventional biopic that, if you cover your ears, sounds great. Antoine Fuqua’s movie is sanctioned by Jackson’s estate and its producers include the estate’s executors. So it is, by its nature, a narrow, authorized perspective on Jackson. The film ends before the flood of allegations of sexual abuse of children, or Jackson’s own acknowledgment of sleeping alongside kids. Jackson and his estate have long maintained his innocence. In his only criminal trial, in 2005, Jackson was acquitted. Michael doesn’t even subtly nod to these facts.
Writing of the finds at the ancient iron-working site of Shihsanhang (十 三行) in New Taipei City’s Bali District (八里), archaeologist Tsang Cheng-hwa (臧振華) of the Academia Sinica’s Institute of History and Philology observes: “One bronze bowl gilded with gold, together with copper coins and fragments of Tang and Song ceramics, were also found. These provide evidence for early contact between Taiwan aborigines and Chinese.” The Shihsanhang Web site from the Ministry of Culture says of the finds: “They were evidence that the residents of the area had a close trading relation with Chinese civilians, as the coins can be
The March/April volume of Foreign Affairs, long a purveyor of pro-China pablum, offered up another irksome Beijing-speak on the issues and solutions for the problems vexing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the US: “America and China at the Edge of Ruin: A Last Chance to Step Back From the Brink” rang the provocative title, by David M. Lampton and Wang Jisi (王緝思). If one ever wants to describe what went wrong with US-PRC relations, the career of Wang Jisi is a good place to start. Wang has extensive experience in the US and the West. He was a visiting
The January 2028 presidential election is already stirring to life. In seven or eight months, the primary season will kick into high gear following this November’s local elections. By this point next year, we will likely know the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate and whether the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) will be fielding a candidate. Also around this time, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) will either have already completed their primary, or it will be heading into the final stretch. By next summer, the presidential race will be in high gear. The big question is who will be the KMT’s
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