Lost Girls movie review: and still unfound
Based-on-fact drama puts the focus where it rarely is onscreen: on women who are victims of male violence. Yet a terrific central performance and an abundance of empathy cannot overcome its clichés.
New York magazine
Hustlers movie review: with hearts of steel
GoodFellas, except they’re gals. A cinematic bonbon of delinquent deliciousness that easily wraps us up in charmed complicity. And the exquisite lack of a male gaze means it’s never salacious.
question of the day: Where is the beautiful end to monoculture the Internet was going to bring us?
Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, at Gothamist, laments the fact that his totally gripping documentary The Cove — about an abhorrent annual dolphin slaughter in Japan — isn’t being seen by very many folks: It’s like we’ve become a nation of dunces. Where are we getting our information from? We’re not reading and we’re not going to … more…
OMG: penis onscreen!
Here we go again. There’s a penis onscreen — in a still image! — during the end credits of The Hangover, and people are freaking out. Sez Bilge Ebiri at New York mag’s blog Vulture (you might want to skip the big blockquote if you don’t want even minor spoilers for the movie): So, we … more…
