Aidan Jeans pokes fun at Charlie Kauffman's oscar nominated animated feature about a self-help author who perceives everyone, including his wife and child, as having the same face. That is until he meets Lisa.
Read MoreSelect Memories from Moments in Carol
For prom, I bought us pearl earrings for $5 from an elderly vendor in Chinatown. I told him how neither of us had ever owned anything pearl before. He knew they were fake, and so did I, and so did you, but it didn’t matter.
Read MoreJoy and the Noxious Male Genius
She is creative, but pragmatic first, her genius is hands on and hard-won. Joy Mangano espouses the pleasure of utility, ingenuity and practicality but the film itself is stuffed with arguably useless flourishes, it is rambling instead of efficient, clunky instead of lightweight. The Miracle Mop it is not.
Read MoreNotes on Miss You Already
Their lives are devoted to pleasure and comfort; a kind of editorial lifestyle that requires money and the illusion of personal style. But no amount of good taste could save Milly from cancer and its gruesome toll on her body. At least she gets to live out her final days in an exorbitantly luxurious hospice.
Read MoreFrom a Review of The Martian
It’s inconceivable that the American public would lose Matt’s matter to a planet that resists colonization. Matt returned can be forgotten but Matt left on Mars would be a ghost fucking up NASA's funding for all eternity and reminding Americans of their embarrassing interplanetary defeat. Animated or not, we want to keep our bodies within our borders.
Read MoreTravel Diary of a Bond Girl
Everyone loves older men and even older cities. But women must be girls, and preferably girls from out of town.
Read MoreFrom a Review of Mommy
You are a half: wandering around, looking for your other. It is necessarily so. We survive because desire moves us forward and desire can never be sated. If you believe the psychoanalysis, we become aware that we are separate from our mothers (and everyone else) when we look in the mirror and see ourselves; alive and apart. Perhaps some trauma before the age of three could bring a child to this awareness too early, a permanent cleft in their sense of comfort.
Read MoreFrom a Review of Oblivion
It is too bad that the alien race destroyed or contaminated most of the natural world, but they had to. I mean really, who wants to live in a world where people still propose to each other at the top of Empire State building. At least Prometheus had the courage to kill all romance forever.
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