When I was working at Video Review magazine in the mid-1980s, I and most of the other staffers had multiple occasions to look at videos made by our readers. A…
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In my below-cited-and-linked review of No Strings Attached for MSN Movies, I refer to the film as "yet another these-two-wacky-kids-belong-together-and-they're-the-last-ones-to-know-it narrative." WHich, it occurs to me now, makes it sound…
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Kelly Lin (Sue) and Asia Argento (Sandra) in Boarding Gate, Olivier Assayas, 2007Sue: ...It's a lot of money. I don't have it. In partnership with you, it was possible.Sandra: Wait.…
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Not an illustration from the scene itself, but an image from one of the films under discussion.For a prior scene, see here.SCENE: The Carroll Gardens apartment that the proprietor of…
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"Show business kids making movies of themselves/you know they don't give a fuck about anybody else"—Steely Dan, "Show Biz Kids," 1973 "Not an untalented man, by the way."—Christopher Lee, referring…
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I was at the gym the other day, and I had put TCM on one of the televisions in the cardio room, in part because it confuses people, and in…
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