Posts in category Film & TV

Now that Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean has pretty much run its course after the disappointment that was On Stranger Tides and Prince of Persia …

There is a lot of great material in this movie about Lisa Cohen, an Upper West Side teenager (Anna Paquin) who is partly responsible for …

Well, it took a while (I’m getting more and more swamped with wedding stuff as the big day approaches – only a month and a …

This past Saturday I ventured up to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta for the “Modern Masters of Film” screening of It Should Happen to …

This shrewdly subversive film by Jafar Panahi, an Iranian filmmaker who has been sentenced by the Iranian government to six years in jail, and has been …

As always, such an anticlimax. But, the consensus in my tiny Oscar watchfest was “they were not that terrible”. Given that these are the Oscars, …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM9e6RnTz1s1 Well, the ceremony is TODAY. It’s time to admit I have failed. As a person, a partner, a daughter and as a blogger. I …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlI1ljqxv4E1 This is an awesome and adorable children’s rendition of Oscar nominees for the best picture. As always, kids speak only the truth. This time …

The Artist begins with an intertexual nod to our hero’s predicament. We see a silent film shown in a grand movie house. The scene unfolds as …

Well, now we know why the Oscars are so irrelevant, so bland, so boring, so conventional. Because the Academy is comprised almost exclusively of white …