In honour of Mark’s “10 best movies of the fearsome decade.” Just keep in mind that I was not that great of a moviegoer this decade before you start pelting me with rotten food items. For what it’s worth, I tried to be somewhat objective, and did not include merely a clutch of my favouriteContinue reading “My own best movies of the 00’s”
Category Archives: Kultur
R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov
“Seventeen Moments of Spring,” where Tikhonov played his arguably most famous and iconic role, always gave me the warm fuzzies with its ending. It talked about how this Soviet spy, who doesn’t yet know that the war will be ending later in the year, in May, is going to Berlin to continue with his work.Continue reading “R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov”
“Don’t treat me like a whore!”
Interesting to hear those words come from a man’s mouth, for a change. The problem with this trailer, though, is that you know exactly the sort of American demographic it is gunning for (obviously, I’m not at all qualified to talk about the demographic in its native France). It’s the sort of demographic that isContinue reading ““Don’t treat me like a whore!””
Cormac McCarthy’s “faux-arty machismo”? Say what?
Iker Casillas begs to differ. So Stephanie Zacharek used her review of the film adaptation of The Road to bash the original source material. There’s no accounting for taste, but does Cormac McCarthy really have a “he-man streak”? And even if he does… why is that bad? I rarely agree with Zacherek’s reviews, though IContinue reading “Cormac McCarthy’s “faux-arty machismo”? Say what?”
Love? Hate? Worship? I say worship: Sasha Grey in Playboy
This link is 100% Not Safe For Work. So don’t go clicking on it, and then screeching to me about how you got your ass fired and can’t afford to feed your Alexandrine parakeet and how it’s all my fault. I like Sasha Grey. Not necessarily for high-falutin’ pseudo-intellectual reasons either. I think she’s reallyContinue reading “Love? Hate? Worship? I say worship: Sasha Grey in Playboy”
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