Hannibal Rising is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 2006. It is a prequel to his three previous books that finally delivers the origin story of his legendary character, the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It was adapted (by Harris himself) into a film in 2007.
Thomas Fleming in The New York Times gave the book a generally favorable review. He compared the development of the story to the gradual acceleration of a powerful car, but complained that the explanation for Dolarhyde's behavior, trauma in his youth, was too mechanistic.[4] James Ellroy has described Red Dragon as 'the best pure thriller I've ever read' and cited it as an influence on his own novel Killer on the Road.[5] In a 1981 article for the Washington Post, horror author Stephen King praised it as "probably the best popular novel to be published in America since The Godfather."[6]
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It was certainly a fat weekend for Eddie Murphy as his last oversized comedy took the top spot at the box office. Fresh off the heels of his first Oscar nomination for Dreamgirls, Murphy was back up to his old tricks and, somehow, winning over American moviegoers with Norbit. The comedy took in a surprising $33.7 million in its first weekend, drowning out the incredibly negative responses from the nation's critics. Norbit received a measley 9% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but apparently those horrible reviews weren't enough to keep people away from Norbit. It snagged an impressive $10,758 per-screen average, screening in a decent 3,136 theaters. Eddie and Co. are already more than halfway to a profit from its $60 million budget. $60 million, for this flick? I guess latex must be more spendy than I thought...
This doesn't look like anything spectacular, really. We see these flicks all the time about a death in the family bringing the rest of the family together and blah blah blah blah. In this one, the death hasn't happened yet, with family matriarch Sally Field on her last days, with the whole family coming together. It looks pretty syrupy, but we dont' see Sally Field in too much these days so it might be worth a look just for that. The underrated and surprisingly reclusive Clea Duvall also co-stars here as well. Still, I don't know if just those two actresses will be enough to get me in the theater. Two Weeks opens on March 2 in limited release.
I had plenty to choose from here this week, and I'm going with Winona Ryder joining this ridiculous project The Last Word for my Worst News of the Week. I'm having a BIG frickin problem with the fact that this Wes Bentley's character makes a living on writing suicide notes for other people. I don't have as much of a problem with the moral issues of this occupation, but the logistics of it. I mean it's not like you can list a business like this in the damn Yellow Pages or anything. Then, lets say I do manage to get over this ridiculousness, then there's the fact that the rest of the movie is, partially, a rip-off of the marvelous Chuck Pahlaniuk's book, Survivor. The whole thing is just giving me a damn headache, and I just hope this whole project gets a suicide note written for it, and it languishes on the shlef for an eternity. 2ff7e9595c
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