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Film Review – Wuthering Heights
While I enjoy watching films and television, I will always think of myself first and foremost as a reader. And as a reader, I tend to have very strong feelings about books. My love for certain stories is very strong, and my loathing for other…
READ MOREFilm Review – Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Truth is a slippery thing; it can be subjective based on the viewpoints of both the storyteller and the listener. A dry recitation of the facts may entirely miss the point, where a bald-faced lie can get to the heart of the matter. We tend…
READ MOREFilm Review – V/H/S
V/H/S is a “found footage” anthology film: there are five vignettes and one section that wraps around the others to tie them together. (Each section has a different director.) In this interstitial segment, a group of guys videotape themselves doing awesome things. And by awesome,…
READ MOREFilm Review – Chicken With Plums
Chicken with Plums tells the story of Nasser-Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric), a concert violinist in 1950s Tehran. His treasured violin has been broken, and he cannot find satisfaction in any other instrument, not even a Stradivarius he has gone to great lengths to acquire. Life…
READ MOREFilm Review – The American Scream
For me, October is the best month of the year, because I love Halloween and much of the hoopla that comes with it. Not so much the dressing up and partying part, but the scary movies and books and pumpkin-flavored treats. Also, sugar. I am…
READ MOREFilm Review – Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
Singer-songwriter Alex (Ryan O’Nan), the main character in Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, is in a bad place. He makes his living not closing on low-level real estate deals, his girlfriend has left him, he’s been dumped by three bands in one year, and he…
READ MOREFilm Review – Hello I Must Be Going
So, when exactly do women come of age? When we get our periods? Have sex? Get married? Or is coming of age an internal thing, like when we realize how full of crap we are and need to get our asses in gear in order…
READ MOREFilm Review – 2 Days in New York
I’ll just come out and say it: I’m an idiot. It turns out that the only thing I can remember seeing Julie Delpy in is An American Werewolf in Paris. Looking at her listing on IMDb, I notice that I’ve seen some other projects she’s…
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