Avatar/Pocahontas – Spot The Difference
Randy Szuch salutes Avatar’s originality with this brilliant mash-up.
The Eight Ages of Woman
Teens – Everything looks awful!
20s – Everything looks great!
30s – Everything still looks pretty good
40s – Some things still look OK
50s – At least everything still works
60s – At least most things still work
70s – At least some things still work
80s – At least I’m still here!
The Last Station – Worse than Porn?
The Last Station has all the hallmarks of an upmarket arthouse movie: story involving Great Writer – check; distinguished actors going for the gold – check; meticulously-executed period costumes – check; scenic, pre-industrial landscapes – check; some allusion to Big Ideas – check; an eschewing of popcorn-movie values such as narrative tension and flash in favor of an almost suffocating tastefulness – check. And yet in one respect it makes a porn movie look honest.
