What remains disturbing is that it took a movie to jerk me back into reality.

Lately I’ve been watching movies.  Two this past week:  Rachel Getting Married starring Anne Hathaway, and I’ve Loved You So Long starring Kristen Scott Thomas.  Both of these films quietly portray the complicated life between siblings, yet my biggest takeaway involves what the films didn’t portray.
Flashback.
Neither film uses flashback to reveal or illuminate what went [...]

Marilyn Chambers died on Sunday.

Serge Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique) will tell the lurid, elegant, sleazy, glamorous story of France’s finest and most adventurous pop star.

The plague of lame horror remakes is a sickness that is devouring theatrical horror alive (or at least undead).

Take a look at the website to figure out what all of this has to do with fighting global poverty and oppression of women.

The Scott Walker documentary is hitting our shores.

It should be no surprise that Ang Lee’s latest directorial adventure, Taking Woodstock, stars none other than the acting powerhouse that is…Demetri Martin? Really? I don’t know, okay. I guess I have no reason to complain. I mean, maybe, you know, Demetri just happens to be an awesome actor. Certainly no way to tell at this point.

I just solved a great mystery that might be useful to other posters here: misspell your profanity if you want your posts to actually show up!

In all of Bunuel’s great works, conventional movie-watching emotional shortcuts are subverted and toyed with as cinematic manipulation is revealed for the grand illusion it is.