Lisa Ann Walter
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Lisa Ann Walter and Rosa Blasi - Opening night of 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' at the Pantages Theatre - Los Angeles, California, United States - Wednesday 29th May 2013
Lisa Ann Walter - ABC's Annual Mother's Day Luncheon - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Wednesday 8th May 2013
Lisa Ann Walter - ABC's Annual Mother's Day Luncheon - Arrivals - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Thursday 9th May 2013
Lisa Ann Walter - 'What A Pair!' Benefit Concert - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Saturday 13th April 2013
Lisa Ann Walter Saturday 28th April 2012 2012 Black & Gold Gala held at The L.A. Studio Center
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War Of The Worlds Review
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Steven Spielberg's huge-budget update of "The Warof the Worlds," H.G. Wells' seminal alien-invasion novel from 1898,is a problematic blockbuster with one essential saving grace: It's profoundlyfrightening in a way that few directors have the talent to capture. I'm not talking about masked-psycho-with-a-chainsaw scary.That's kids' stuff. This is a slow, relentless, meticulous fear. It's thefear of uncertainty, the fear of grand-scale devastation that humanityis powerless to stop. It's a fear that fills the air like a storm and creepsup your spine in a way that's hard to shake. It is a fear not unlike whatevery American felt on September 11, 2001 -- but divorced from fact andrealigned as entertainment through the subconsciously reassuring comfortof a movie theater seat and a tub of popcorn.
It's visceral, it's psychological, and it comes more fromthe terrified performances of Tom Cruise and the remarkable Dakota Fanning(the angelic 10-year-old from "Hide& Seek" and "Manon Fire") -- as a dock-worker deadbeatdad and his daughter on the run from 100-foot alien killing machines --than from the film's hyper-realistic special effects and monsters (whicharen't that different from the ones in the shamelessly corny "Warof the Worlds" rip-off "Independence Day").
The film is worth seeing just to experience this fear,which is a testament to the power of cinema.
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