David Dinkins, the city's most recent Democratic mayor, was a decent man with the mark of doom on him.Ever since Mr Giuliani ousted Mr Dinkins in 1993, New York's left has been stuck in an unruly rut.
"Take Shelter," the writer-director Jeff Nichols's haunting story of a blue-collar family man beset by visions of doom, offers a tight-lipped patriarch who is all the more unsettling for his familiarity.
In her memoirs, she wrote of him as a man possessing a "positive aversion to principle, even a conviction that a man of principle was doomed to be a figure of fun".
It stars "the amazing Michael Shannon," in A.O. Scott's words, as a blue-collar family man beset by terrorizing visions of doom.
The movie is directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak who is the man behind the 2005 adaptation of Doom.
Great, so we'll get Spider-Man vs. the Afterschool Special of Doom?
For now, it seems that the best reason for disbelieving the prophets of doom is that man's scientific ingenuity has always found solutions in the past.
BOYS -- and as we learn in "Masters of Doom," girls and men and women too -- have a special, privileged place in their hearts for violent fantasy worlds and things that go boom.
"Woman Is the Future of Man" is doomed to infuriate, and its scrutiny of disconnected beings, filmed in long, hold-your-breath takes, might feel like old hat to anyone reared on Antonioni, yet Hong has a grace and stealth of his own, and his scenes tend to tilt in directions that few of us would dare to predict.
I awoke from my fantasy of doom to see the man with the racy newspaper ads debark.
