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Hot Docs: Sex Saves World 30 Apr 2013 | 10:30 pm
I’ve written about this year’s Hot Docs selections. Two of them are about the future in their own way – I Am Breathing and Future My Love, both of which I’ve written about in Entertainment Maven. The ...
Derek Cianfrance and Sam Mendes 16 Apr 2013 | 09:24 pm
Is it just me or do I see a similarity between Derek Cianfrance and Sam Mendes’ CVs? Both directors like sledgehammering the family as an institution, and I’m not saying that as an insult. For sake of...
Spring Breakers 4 Apr 2013 | 09:04 pm
While talking Josh Brunsting on Twitter, who compared Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers to Jean-Luc Godard and Terrence Malick’s work, I had to chime in that it also reminded me of the work of two oppo...
With Your Best Shot: Shorts 3 Apr 2013 | 09:53 pm
How many times do I have to say “I’m back” for it to be real? This week in Nathaniel’s Best Shot series, we are doing shorts courtesy of a site called Short of the Week, a site that might just be my n...
Movie Pitches: Beautiful Creatures 22 Feb 2013 | 10:39 pm
Movie Pitch will be an occasional and crappy column. Here I will conjure up alternate universes where better movies exist instead of the ones that are unleashed onto the viewing public. The first movi...
Motifs in 2012 Cinema: Luck and Fate 17 Feb 2013 | 01:11 am
I feel privileged that for the second year in a row, my friend Andrew (Encore Entertainment) has asked me to come out of my chemically induced hibernation and take part in this: Motifs in Cinema is a ...
The Family That Plays… 26 Dec 2012 | 10:56 pm
…together, stays together, as the great Khloe Kardashian has said before. If Leni Riefenstahl directed FDR, Hyde Park on Hudson would be that movie. I wrote about it on Entertainment Maven. The link i...
Christmas Movie: Serendipity 25 Dec 2012 | 10:08 pm
While Christmas shopping in New York, Sara (Kate Beckinsale) and Jonathan (John Cusack) meet and seem to really like each other. But she’s making him play a game, making each other leave their numbers...
Dystopia Countodwn: Vampires and Girls 20 Dec 2012 | 10:42 pm
I wrote about “The Twilight Saga” on Entertainment Maven because I fucking watched all the movies in one sitting a few weeks ago. And it’s probably the Kraken vodka speaking but I didn’t hate the expe...
The Seventh Seal 20 Dec 2012 | 10:39 pm
Before even seeing Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal,” we’re probably already aware of the iconic images of Death (Bengt Ekerot) extended, cloaked right arm and his game of chess with a knight named ...
