
Hawaiian Hula 'Olapa: Stylized Embodiment, Percussion, and Chanted Oral Poetry
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Monika Lilleike's performance analytic study on Hawaiian Hula Olapa reveals how this genuine...

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"Tattoo Maker" is the most polished tattoo design catalog in the app store!! Get tattoo ideas from...

A Sport and a Pastime
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With an introduction by Sarah Hall The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring...

The Moon Within
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Celi Rivera's life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy....

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things #1)
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Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority...

Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated Twisted (2004) in Movies
Aug 14, 2019
Sheppard has just been promoted to the San Francisco Homicide unit after bringing in suspected serial killer Edmund Cutler (Leland Orser). Sheppard ignored protocol and almost became a victim herself so there are those in the department who resent her promotion and credit it to her gender and the fact that she is sponsored by a high ranking official named John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson) who has raised her since Shepard’s parents were killed years earlier.
Sheppard is soon called in to investigate a body floating in the bay, and is shocked to discover the victim is a man she picked up in a bar previously. When a second body is discovered also with a connection to Shepard, her partner Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia), thinks that Jessica may have an obsessive stalker following her.
Jessica is soon a suspect in the killings and the fact that she is blacking out at night is causing Jessica to suspect that she may be responsible for the killings.
What should be a tense thriller never emerges as the film plods along never allowing any tension to build. There are attempts to plant a few red-herrings as the film draws to the conclusion but the identity of the killer is so obvious that all that is missing is a neon sign proclaiming the obvious. To further add to the failure of the film, I was able to see events coming far in advance including the events of the final confrontation.
Judd and Garcia do the best they can with the material but Jackson is woefully underused in a story that seems better suited for a movie of the week. It is a shame that an interesting premise such as this is wasted, as “Twisted” is a whodunit that will leave you saying who cares.

Ryan McGinley: Whistle for the Wind
John Kelsey, Chris Kraus, Ryan McGinley and Gus Van Sant
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In 2000, Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in an abandoned...
Teaching Buddhism: New Insights on Understanding and Presenting the Traditions
Todd Lewis and Gary Delany DeAngelis
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Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to...
Physical Activity and the Abdominal Viscera: Responses in Health and Disease
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Physical Activity and the Abdominal Viscera is the first book to examine the response of the...

Ford Transit: The Making of an Icon
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The Ford Transit is one of the most successful commercial light vans of all time and it has been the...