2013
THE SPECTACULAR NOW examines the lives of high school teens in a manner that doesn’t trivialize, sexualize or demean them. At times, the film may succeed in sentimentalizing high school and cannot quite decide precisely how its audience is meant
2007
This movie was announced for a Christmas day release. Compounding on that fact, this is a movie chock full of nudity, obscene language and fanatical money laundering. Jordan Belfort, the character from the book seems even richer and craftier of
2007
Over the course of one week the “Wolf of Wall Street” made more money than the King of France had in his coffers. It examines his relationships with his subordinates, peers and family life, all without leaving the sex, drugs
1978
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“Humanity, you never had it from the beginning. That was my motto.” – Henry Chinaski Women by Charles Bukowski reintroduces a recurring, yet hardly beloved character in Bukowski’s works, Henry Chinaski. Chinaski established himself in Factotum, Post Office, and Ham
2008
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Author Sally Kempton once said, “it’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” This concept is made readily accessible in ‘Silver Linings Playbook’. Not to be defeated by his stay in a neurology hospital after catching
2012
This movie was nominated for many awards from Oscars to Golden Globe awards. Jennifer Lawrence won best actress in a few of the award circles. The movie, like the book follows Pat on his escapades after a short stint in