“Prom Dates,” a story about 2 teenage girls getting into scrapes before prom parties sounds as crude as an R rated teen comedy but proves warm and heartfelt. While this narrative technique is ancient, it reached its peak in the 21 st century with the movie ‘Superbad’ and further advanced when social media became rampart […]
In 1761, when she was twenty-four years old and without a penny to her name, Jeanne Bécu addressed one of her letters to a “dear friend” and even went to say that she loved him. Then she cut to the chase: “I grew tired of being a mere shopgirl and wished to be my own
Bye Bye Boredom: Speak not a word, hear not a word. According to proper folklore, the Bye Bye Man is a ghost or demon for that matter. His attack on you will only take place when you talk concerning him or when he is in your think. So what will be the way out? Just
If I had to describe how Marisa Kavtaradze’s “Slow” is set up, most of you would probably guess what is more or less to come next. However, one of the many nice things about the film, which was Lithuania’s submission for the international feature film category in the Oscar this year, is that it tries
ABU News Studios and L. A. Times Studios have expressed their intention to release an extremely revealing documentary titled “The Housewife and The Hustler 2: The Reckoning.” Although billed as a biography, this feature is a hard hitting scrutiny of the fall from grace of former hotshot attorney Tom Girardi, who is accused of misappropriating
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Taboo: Amos Guttman: The AIDS epidemic claimed countless lives. This number is two times the generational loss because older men were taken away from younger people who didn’t get to hear what they had to say and learn from them. It’s moving, then, that Taboo director Shauly Melamed was born in 1993 — the same
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Bodyguard for Sweetheart: There are certain films that, love them or hate them, become critical cultural holes in one’s gradual appreciation of films and such — those films that you always somehow overlooked or skipped intentionally, or simply because you had not been of the appropriate age when they came out. For me, it was
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Spiders. Of ALL the creatures to terrorize the people, these are the preferred ones? Those of us who let out a gasp at the sight of a spider can come to testify that many legged arachnids are an easy source of horror. Most of us don’t really appreciate being greeted by these visitors on our
I have been branded a witch, a promiscuous woman, a killer. Maybe it is the characters I perform in the movies that people associate with myself … like a blank space where others project their thoughts and deficiencies, but vengeance is not necessary. I am taking back my spirit. I articulate as a female in
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It could just as well be said that this is a photorealistic portrayal of the animated picture The Land Before Time (1988), but nevertheless, this prehistoric adventure evolves along the lines of the Toy Story series (1995, 1999) and A Bug’s Life (1999) being filmed on the computer as a new frontier of animation. All
