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The premise of Never Let Me Go, at least superficially, is not an unfamiliar one. The idea of human clones being bred solely to serve as organ donors has made fertile fodder for dystopian sci-fi nightmares for decades, at least as far back as Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979). But while these [...]

Hollywood loves to make high school sex comedies based (loosely) on classic works of literature. Clueless was adapted from Austen’s “Emma”, and 10 Things I Hate About You is a retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. When these sort of movies happen, we can only hope that the writers involved keep [...]

Cyrus got a lot of positive press, and a good number of critics liked it. It has all the ingredients for getting a big thumbs up from me, too, but it just didn’t go down so easily. The directors, brothers Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, also gave us The Puffy Chair, which was a staff [...]

The star-crossed exploits of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen continue in Eclipse, the third installment of the teen-friendly vampire franchise that makes itself infinitely more tolerable than its predecessors by dialing down the angst and ramping up the action.

A woman meeting her husband in Cairo for their first trip to Egypt arrives to find he’s been delayed. Understandable, given that the Middle East is always in flux and he’s a UN official working in Gaza. A former colleague of her husband is at the airport to meet her and [...]

Going the Distance was just an okay romantic comedy. I didn’t love it by any means. I didn’t feel any great chemistry between the stars, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, even though they have been an on-again, off-again couple for a while. I really liked Drew in He’s Just Not That Into You (a much [...]

Eat Pray Love was okay. It seems like it could have been a lot better, somehow. Perhaps if the main character, Liz, had been played by someone else. Perhaps if the movie had gotten direction from someone other than Ryan Murphy. Something just fell a little flat in the cinematic retelling of the [...]

Love Ranch is the story of the Mustang Ranch brothel, which opened in the Nevada desert in the late 1960’s. Taylor Hackford (Ray) directs his wife, Helen Mirren (Oscar for The Queen), and Joe Pesci (Oscar for Goodfellas) in an unevenly entertaining film. I say unevenly because I suppose your reaction will depend [...]

Among some of those who study the long stretch of Western history commonly known as classical antiquity, the period is bookended by two Greek names: Homer (not the yellow one) at the beginning and Hypatia at the end. The latter name is not a household one, which is regrettable for a number of reasons. Hypatia [...]

You might be surprised to learn that you’ve very likely already seen the work of Argentine director Juan José Campanella. Most of his career for the past several years has been directing numerous episodes of American television series, among them House, MD, 30 Rock, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has only [...]