Rodrigo Garcia’s new film is entitled Mother and Child, but it might more accurately have been called Mother and Daughter, as variations of that freighted relationship play out in the interconnected lives of three women in Los Angeles, depicted with stellar ensemble work by Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington. Annette Bening’s role...
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Well lovelies, no “Work of Art” recap for three weeks because I’m in New York City, squatting in an actual working, struggling artist’s apartment in deep, near-ghetto Brooklyn, meaning no cable, no Bravo, and until Hulu uploads more episodes, no “Work of Art.” Instead, I’m exhausting my kiddoes dragging them to art museums and...
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Perhaps only New Yorkers can fully appreciate the strange but not uncommon real estate transaction that underlies Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature film Please Give. Successful dealers in trendy midcentury modern furniture, Kate and Alex have leapt at the chance to purchase the apartment next door, allowing them to expand their own… just as soon...
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I’ll keep this brief. I love Glee. LUV it. It has sincere, sweet, believable characters, real conflicts, the highest highs on TV, and the most touching dramas. The music is frequently fabulous, and even when numbers don’t quite work, I still love them, but then I’m one of those people who think life is...
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There’s only one way to say this: Glee’s season 1 finale was a letdown in many ways—possibly in every important way. And the sad thing is that, just like those sweet, earnest kids of William McKinley High’s New Directions, it tried—so hard—to please. What are the things we viewers want from a season finale?...
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Just when I was thinking it’d be nice to hear another Queen number, Glee delivers “Another One Bites the Dust,” but this time it’s performed by Vocal Adrenaline, who have descended on McKinley High to strut their stuff in front of New Directions. What’s more, it’s a Vocal Adrenaline headlined by hot-hot-hot Jesse St. James....
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It is said that art is eternal, but street art is by nature ephemeral, effaced immediately or soon thereafter by law enforcement, building managers, rival taggers and forces of nature. What longevity it is able to attain comes mostly via documentation by photographers and videographers. And that is where Thierry Guetta—a portly, middle-aged Frenchman...
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The Secret in Their Eyes has all the elements of the art house critical darling it is—high production values, exotic locations, political unrest and oppression, a lurid but elegantly handled storyline, and a dignified, yearning love story between two attractive principals featuring a shamelessly romantic train station parting—complete with hands matching up through glass...
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A schoolgirl is killed, her body flung over a rooftop parapet for the world to see. Do-Joon, the town simpleton, physically beautiful but not right in the head and incapable—as his mother says—of hurting as much as a water bug, is arrested and forced to confess by the incompetent, bullying detectives, and it is...
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