Mein Gott, Wat a Drive! A Kinda Film Review by A. Schwarzenbier
Mein Gott, wat a film! Ja, zat Drive feature (DRIVE, 2011, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn) is really kohl. Danke Hollywood for zis kinda...
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...
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...
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...
It Could Have Been Fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsvWVEHowg
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Faux Terrorism Section commentator, was learning North Korean from an illegally purchased Rosetta Stone tape, when he took a break to...
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),...
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...
Mademoiselle Bovary Likes Blue
“La Vie d’Adèle” (aka Blue is the Warmest Color)
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Sandor Funtek, Karim Saidi,...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
