The Great Beauty review: pretty ugly
As a parody of Italian cinema, it’s tedious. Except we’re supposed to be taking this seriously. As if.
Year: 2014
Omar movie review: trust no one
Palestine’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is terse, tense suspense drama, and less overtly political than you might expect.
Amsterdam photo of the day: smash fascism
The baby commands it.
this is the first year ever that I’ve seen every film nominated for an Oscar
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you can live-stream the Oscars online tomorrow night!*
*In a few places, as long as you already have access to it on your TV.
Amsterdam photo of the day: live without dead time
And walk like an Egyptian.
The Lunchbox review: when souls meet (for a meal)
A charming, bittersweet, utterly chaste love affair forged over food and cemented by kindred spirits.
because I’m not a corporate shill: testimonial from reader and subscriber RogerBW
By popular demand, I remain a starving writer with a huge readership. Thanks, Internet.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman review: timey-wimey doggy-waggy
Wonderfully, sweetly geeky, and full of the sort of goofy yet intriguing adventures that inspire kiddie curiosity in history and art and science.
a humorous song about how Hollywood hates women
”If you have to have a girl in there / She should be smoking hot / But not affect the plot”…
