Portrait of an Artist in Exile If you plan to see Searching for Sugar Man, please, stop reading this and watch the film first.…
Snow White and The Huntsman (Rupert Sanders, 2012)
When beauty is a curse I’m not certain how many people today have been exposed to Grimm’s fairy tales in their original form. The…
Departures (Yôjirô Takita, 2008)
An awkward time Cellist Daigo Kobayashi (played by Masahiro Motoki), after practicing for years has finally achieved his dream of playing in an orchestra…
Evil Depicted in Breaking Bad and Mad Men
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What's happened to you? In one of the most stunning scenes in AMC's Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White explains to his wife why he…
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski, 2011)
The story in a painting In 1564, the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), painted The Procession to Calvary (or The Way to…
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)
When trust is a matter of life and death The story is set in some unidentified period in the future. The United States has…
The Sunset Limited (Tommy Lee Jones, 2012)
“To be, or not to be, that is the question...” Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. I admit it: Cormac McCarthy fascinates me. In the…
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)
Nostalgia traps the soul We had a friend who one time mentioned she thought she had been born in the wrong century. “When you…
Friends With Benefits (Will Gluck, 2011)
Sex Points the Way A girl can tuck a Trojan in her purse on Saturday night, but there is no such device to protect…
The Conspirator (Robert Redford, 2010)
Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and… the Rule of Law? I remember when my email inbox began filling with the messages about “Ground Zero Mosque”:…