I love seeing how much Girls has evolved from their very first campaign and SXSW Festival premiere in 2012 to the now 3rd soon-to-air season of the HBO comedy of twenty-somethings starring none other than writer/director/producer Lena Dunham. And who doesn’t love indulging in some Girls? Looking back at the…
“Did you throw tampons at Carrie White?” In Kimberly Peirce’s (Boys Don’t Cry) 2013 version of the Stephen King novel and once already adapted (first by Brian De Palma) ’76 hit Carrie, we’re back in her sheltered and tortured world, this time played by Chloë Grace Mortez. If anyone…
“To an evening of good conversation and better friends” In the case of Stuart wanting desperately to date that stupid blonde girl on the Hollywood Boulevard billboard, this time he’s convinced he’ll meet his fantasy mate tagging along with Jessica to the gay club. Because…
“They’re not here to fish.” All is quiet in Vermont days before Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) is sent out on a mission to board a cargo ship to the Somalian shores where piracy threats traffic in all directions. But work is work, and the…
“Machete don’t tweet.” With the government comes the law, and with the law comes corruption. And down by the border things are a bit heavier than we’re used to seeing: masked men killing each other for, well, we don’t really know. But what we do…
“You can’t be happy all the time” The thing about Walt Disney World is that even though it might be a direct product of the great Sir Walt’s wandering imagination, it’s also in retrospect just a theme park. So no, things aren’t always bright and happy; those…
“RULE #1: you’ve got to seem like you’re too busy to call” After Stuart fails to pick up an engaged chick mid-downward dog during him and Jessica’s yoga class (probably not the best time to spit game), moments later to everyone’s surprise he actually ends up getting…
“Catwalk, slick talk, flirting with the big dog” OK whatever, I don’t care what anyone says: I love Bangerz. In fact, it’s been one week and I still haven’t stopped listening to the new Miley. I give it at least a month until I move on (but…
“…the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”—William Faulkner This past weekend in NYC was the premiere of James Franco’s As I Lay Dying: his second novel adaptation released this year, shortly after Child of God that first played at…
“And then all of the sudden President Kennedy appeared[.] And he had a way of doing this like no one had ever seen before. And it was a presence bigger than life. I never knew how tall the man was, or anything else, but he…