Defiant Success

Asghar Farhadi's A Separation  opens rather tamely. Simin (Leila Hatami) seeks a divorce from husband Nader (Peyman Moaadi), but she i...

The main problem with doing a film about history is that most of the time they end up being history lessons performed by actors. There are...

It's amazing that Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) doesn't go mad at some point in Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man . I mea...

This is something that happens every year. (Don't deny what I'm about to say.) Every time the awards season rolls around, everyone...

If there's one thing in that's always bound to stir up a little controversy, it has to be sex. (Remember Shame  last year?) I stil...

From my personal experience, foreign films are usually more complex than their Hollywood equivalents. (I'm not bashing Hollywood, mind...

Death isn't something anyone looks forward to. All one can do is accept what will eventually happen to them. But then you wonder...did...

I'm trying to improve the blog a bit so it doesn't seem too monotonous every day. But I want to know what you have to say. What can ...

Hey, guess what I got tagged with for the third time this year? (Guess that shows I'm popular or something.) Anyway,  Meredith  gave...

It's made clear early on in Louis Malle's The Lovers  that Jeanne Tournier (Jeanne Moreau) has a busy personal life. Not only is s...