The question is: do these daydreams and innocent little lies come from a candid personality, or are they the preoccupying first signs of genuine, deep, far more serious psychological problems? Is it charming or dangerous?Owning nothingWe guess from the very beginning that Eleanor has almost no...
There’s an ocean of movie review blogs out there, and I have no illusions… mine will quickly be forgotten by the handful of people who noticed it. As it should be. It was just me voicing my opinions on movies, which I never really knew much about anyway. I know what I like, ...
Edward Nortonas Pete Seeger, andMonica Barbaroas Joan Baez. The film, its director and its three leading cast members, and its screenplay by Mangold and Jay Cocks are all nominated for Oscars. The movie is a fine, strong film biography of Dylan and ...
I suspect the answer lies in the vast chasm between Alice and John Carter. Franco's drawing power as leading man is largely unproven and I don't see much in the film to appease young viewers. But it is a good movie, told in an exciting way and that has to count for something, ...
Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is an aspiring chef who’s also an MMA expert and apparently a debt-collector. He tears apart a club at the beginning to show how incredible he is at fighting and debt-collecting. Still, his love lies in the kitchen, so he’s trying to scratch together enough scr...
Lubna Azabal is an actress who appeared in "Coriolanus," "Incendies," and "Body of Lies." Birthplace: Brussels, Belgium Nationality: Belgium Django Reinhardt Jazz Hot Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] ...
a moving, campy wonder and is the best musical film in years. Its message resonates painfully in our troubled times. We inhabit our own Emerald City of illusions, manipulated by a “man behind the curtain,” where our heroes often turn out to be villains, and the wicked are good. 8/...
Anyone heard of Lies & Illusions (2009), the Christian Slater / Cuba Gooding Jr. vehicle? The official poster on imdb (no joke) has the following tagline: "Descriptive Tagline Can Go Here" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1202222/mediaviewer/rm3882647808 ...
The film, based on Joyce Carol Oates’ “The Lives of Twins” and slyly published under a pseudonym, follows the same basic conceit of its source material. Both make illusions to Chloé uncovering a dark family secret. Book blurbs are designed to be mysterious and to compel the reader to ...
Von Stroheim shows a world that lies to itself, where swindlers and rich people mix, and where the heroine reads a book called Foolish Wives . The writer-director deals with false appearances: the titles of Count Wladislas Sergius Karamzin and his two princess cousins are fake (von Stroheim...