Good review. The movie appears to me to be an attempt to normalize pedophilia. Sex should be one of the most beautiful and sublime things in human experience. But this movie turns sex in to a depraved abomination. This movie appears to be an attempt to destroy all that is good in human...
But inPoor Things, as unpleasant as life can be, especially for a woman, there’s still hope in the sheer and bizarre splendor of it all. The film is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name, which is inspired by Mary Shelley’sFrankensteinand its interrogat...
Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet,Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill andFrankensteinis adapted byTony McNamarafrom Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name. In the Lo...
“Poor Things” takes off at this point in ways that astound and amuse. The plot borrows heavily from “Pygmalion,”“Frankenstein” and “Prometheus” among other narratives. Duncan thinks he can control Bella, and they initially exhaust each other with copious bouts of sex. Well, Duncan is ...
Reddit Leng Siew Yeap Leng Siew Yeap, a Malaysian, a graduate of UMS applied for a scholarship to do a doctorate degree but was refused outright by the local govt. She was however offered scholarships by University of Edinburgh, London University and Cambridge University. She chose Cambridge Uni...
The finale of ‘The Curse’ put Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone in a surreal situation that maybe has more in common with Stone’s Golden Globe-winning role in ‘Poor Things’ than you’d think. It all starts with a Reddit theory.
I think of poverty and political powerlessness in terms of constraints and frictions–the limitless host of things, little and big, that made it more difficult to run a business profitably or turn a profit or invent a new product or get your kid educated or select the leader who serves your...
We are very troubled by the fact that FaceSwap can be used for unethical and disreputable things. However, we support the development of tools and techniques that can be used ethically as well as provide education and experience in AI for anyone who wants to learn it hands-on. We will tak...
Bob talk about the chickenpox as a "minor inconvenience," I want to smash things. My mother remembers having the measles, and she says it too was miserable (although maybe not quite as bad as the mumps, in her opinion). That one in four people in the current outbreak have been ...
Do you suspect that your job interviews — or your networking attempts — go nowhere because you just don’t know how to have the kind of great conversation that makes it clear you’re a great match for the job? I’ve said it before: Nobody hires you for your “job interview skills....