Caramel (review)
As smart and heartfelt as it is observant about the universalities of the lives of women.
As smart and heartfelt as it is observant about the universalities of the lives of women.
Had a crazy couple of days, and the Doctor has to suffer for it. It’ll be tomorrow at the earliest that I can get a post up about the latest episode. Sorry…
Lots of spoilers! Assumes you’ve seen the episode!
I felt so many different things, all of them positive and wonderful but also sad and depressing, as I watched this extraordinary documentary about four California girls on the edge of puberty.
David Mamet, in his latest as writer-director, has crafted a tale of corruption and nastiness as endemic to the twisted human spirit…
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights.
Iron Man Imagine if you could wear the coolest car ever, and, like, fly around in it and save the world and stuff. Because life wasn’t already amazing enough for Robert Downey Jr here: billionaire playboy with women hanging all over him and a dozen sportscars in his garage. No, he has to have a … more…
At first I thought, in spite of myself: ‘Okay, this might work.’
Winner of multiple Golden Lolas (the German Oscar) and numerous awards at festivals around the world, this second feature from German writer-director Chris Kraus is an extraordinary tale about the power of music.
So, a couple of days ago I mentioned that I’d seen Iron Man, and despite the fact that it is many kinds of awesome, the long-rumored cameo by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury had not materialized. But then came news from Comic Book Resources, which attended the London premiere, also sans Fury, that perhaps … more…