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La Vie dAdèle (aka Blue is the Warmest Color)
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Sandor Funtek, Karim Saidi,...
The Unbearable Joy of Being O
In a recent editorial, Oprah Winfrey, the first African-American female billionaire, complained about the frustrations of not having time to suck. The Joy of...
Godzilla vs. Putzilla
Ever wondered why the Russians never made any apocalyptic movies? They really could. But they didn't. Think of Stalin. I am sure that the...
Doomsday by Lars. Omen by Women. Why Europeans Feel Good When the End Is...
Let's face it, Melancholia, by Danish director, Lars von Trier, is not a crowd-pleasing feature for Americans. It’s about a woman who feels it’s...
TPV Apologizes to Kanye. We Used to Hate on you. Not Anymore
Dear Kanye:
You have 11 million followers on Twitter. And by the way, you got your wife, you got your daughter, and you got your clothing line so when you got going to...
The Mythical Tribeca Film Festival
New York City stands for many things. It stands for skepticism. It stands for ambition. It stands for the American melting pot and for...
Nolan’s Dunkirk through the Eyes of a Father and Son
Dana Neacsu (friend of the Father): How did you experience Nolan's Dunkirk?
Calin Georgescu (Father): From Bucharest, naturally, I viewed Dunkirk in Romanian, so to...
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...
NYT: NYTimes: Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publisha Second Novel
...To Cook A Mockingbird, her favorite recipes.
Trump d’Oeil, Samantha, Doris, and the Feminist Mystique
Donald Trump has called women various names, but what we hear most is the qualifiers "dog," "bimbo," and "fat pig."
Now, I believe the...
Alien Art in the Latest Tom Cruise Movie
Here is a thought: if a smart alien would want to conquer Europe all he should do is wait a little bit. Stand aside....
The Story That Téchiné Loved Too Much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhBUyZuPdCgSometimes directors fall in love with a story and in their stumble they lose or disregard the cinematic plot in favor of the part promised to...
Hair, Nip, Rump and Kanye
The best four moments of the 57th Grammy Awards were shockingly not related to music but to the people who brought us atonal tonalities, aka amusical crap:
4....
The Great Leveler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwfZyQeinTILove me tender/Love me sweet Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) serenades Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern) in the final scene of Wild at Heart (1990),...