Argo: The Tough Answer to a Tough Question
012), 120 min, Drama, History, Thriller; Story: A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of...
Fantastic Mr. Trump Finds Dory
As thousands gathered outside the White House to demand Trump rescind the order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for...
Valerie, Thank You for This Moment. Not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6XllkKLX2U
Valerie, the neurotic pretty girl who grew up into a hysterical hag, wrote a score-settling memoir which happens to be a tragic and demeaning tale of...
Arts and Politics: Doll Boxes
In an age of miniature politics, nothing can help us better visualize reality than Sherry Mills' art in a box. Watch her interviewed by...
Hair. The Next (to last) Generation.
Unless hyped, hair is such a non-issue, that one would be baffled to hear that Hair makes for a less repetitive musical than Mama...
The Theory of Internet-Based Information
Watching and reading about the recent film, Page One: A Year The New York Times, is a strange experience. To be sure, its subject...
Doucheland Uber Alles
In his assertion that he sympathize with Hitler, Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier was certainly bringing more than a touch of the bizarre to...
The Songs the Obamas and the Bidens Were Told to Listen to this Christmas
Dear TPV Readers, here is vetted music you can listen to, also:
The Obamas and the Bidens just shared their holiday playlists:
Just in time for...
Rembrandt, You’re So Vain
With Rembrandt, the Selfie Takes On New Meaning, Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Egoism Section correspondent, read and nodded in agreement with Nina Seigal.
Rembrandt painted more selfies than...
Rocking Brooklyn as if Riding a Citibike in Manhattan
Vocalist Thomas Mars is a funny Gallic guy. He keeps his smile like his shirt: well tucked in. I’ve discovered their music by...
Mr. Allen’s Flab-o-phobia
Superficially speaking, Mr. Woody Allen’s latest film is more of the same. It is an integral part of his oeuvre. If Whatever Works portrays...
Metropolitan Museum of Art to End Art Exhibits; Only Clothing and Other Crass Displays...
Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Met, offered an explanation for the museum's new direction. It just wasn't a sustainable business model, he said,...
The Reprieve
You flew
in my room
I'd left
the door
cracked against
the autumn air
A wren you were
no bigger
than a latchkey
Lucky for you
it was only me
in residence
The cat was
gone
just dreaming
perhaps
of...
Schwarzenegger: Total Freefall?
In the 1993 action movie, Demolition Man, Bruce Willis’s character is thawed (after being cryogenically frozen in 1996) in the year 2023 in future...



















