Picture Perfect Lies Jump toEdit Summaries Rachel Collins is about to celebrate her sweet sixteenth birthday. She has everything a girl could want, but when a shock murder at her party unravels a dark web of lies in her family, Rachel questions everything she's ever known. Synopsis Showing...
Here and elsewhere in sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh brings a bracing edge of humor to his probingly analytical drama. Unfortunately, he turns a bit too moralistically serious, and his plot gets much too schematic, in the final third of the movie. Graham has his video camera turned ...
Spock describes how he sensed the consciousness of the intruder, from a source more powerful that he has ever encountered, with perfect, logical thought patterns. He believes that it holds the answers he seeks. Uhura tells Kirk over the intercom that they have made visual contact with the ...
I’m talking about a trick that has been perfected by politicians of both parties to eliminate voters of the wrong persuasion: the Poison Postcard. Here’s how it works: Targeted voters are mailed postcards by state elections officials. (Let’s remember, state voting chiefs, “Secretaries of...
Gilliland is explaining the origin of the word “rain forest” – but she’s doing it in the perfect context. There’s great flocks of white herons, shown filling the trees and flying grandly across a silvery lake. Are they secret birds? No – the toucans see them, and the tapirs, ...
The flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read too often. Nothing seems to us chang...
lies are always found out. Fashion changes, the public learns to look with a different focus and, where a little while ago it saw an admirable work which actually moved its emotions, it now sees a sham. In the history of the arts we find innumerable shams of this kind, once taken as...
Wishes is that rare example of a perfect marriage between words and pictures, each working to interpret and augment the other. Wishes is about more than one journey. Taken literally, it’s the story of a girl who leaves behind her home—including her grandfather, her dog, and nearly all ...
when you turn your back the bones will uncannily find their own way back together and re-assemble themselves in perfect order. Hearts are like that too. I know, it feels like the world ends – but in the end, you will be ok. Other and better chances really will come to you when the...
and Eileen Brenan make for a hell of a playful cast. The film is full of elaborate double-crossings, delightful shenanigans, and nostalgic ragtime-era costumes and music. The Sting epitomized the perfect blend of amiability and accessibility, making it a prime example of what it used to ta...