The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and the repulsive, feel-good movie of the year about racism, The Help, scored a mere four nods for Best Picture, Best Actress (Viola Davis), and two ...
Read more »After Haywire, my friend Anthony told our acquiantance Kai: "That's Soderbergh's thing, he does these straight but semi-self-aware genre pieces." Kai to Anthony: "I guess he told everyone he was ...
Read more »Of all the experts on sex in A Dangerous Method, I'm siding with some guy named Otto Gross (Vincent Cassell). Like Freud and Jung, Gross is an analyst. But unlike them, Gross has no compunctions ...
Read more »Every time Michael (Nicholas Cage) tries to leave Red Rock, Missouri, a town of pretty casual murderers, he gets pulled back in. The first time he tries to leave, there was a fresh $20000 in his ...
Read more »When I was about 7 years old or so, my mom would do my fortune cookie for me. And she'd bullshit, in the best, most benign way. "You are a very well-behaved boy" or "Always take care of your little ...
Read more »There was a little bit of nervousness on my part when my mom suggested that we all go watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo together as a family. Knowing of course the film involved copious amounts ...
Read more »I’m not sure what’s worse: a good movie with a boring Nicolas Cage performance or a boring movie with a good Nicolas Cage performance. I haven’t seen the former (Knowing comes the ...
Read more »Before Shame, a trailer ran for Cronenberg's upcoming A Dangerous Method. Michael Fassbender stars in both movies and in the latter he plays Carl Jung to Viggo Mortenson's Sigmund Freud. This is a ...
Read more »Twice, I've introduced The Terrys to someone and both times I got nervous at the exact same moment: a close-up of the crowning during a childbirth scene. It's a really convincing latex model of a ...
Read more »Armadillo, about a group of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan, doesn't feel like a documentary in a lot of ways. We never hear the filmmakers' voices and the soldiers never speak directly into the ...
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"also check this out -- all the stuff obama had to deal with in his first term http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all "
avp"a gingrich / obama race would definitely be uglier, but there's still no way gingrich wins. "
avp"We shouldn't be funding the Catholic school system. If they're going to take their orders from the Vatican and Catholic dogma, then they don't deserve our money."
C"Michael Fassbender could have been nominated for Jane Eyre or A Desperate Measure very plausibly but that he was overlooked for Shame was one of those imbecilic outrages that we've had to become a numb to with the Academy. You really must see that film ..."
Salem
" The Conservative Government was sued in the Supreme Court for the illegal age of sexual consent increase as it was a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution. A book about the court case that remains ..."
Octaevius Altair