“Cyrus” is kind of like “Meet the Parents,” except instead of the parents it’s the child.
Author Archives: Alex Goodman
New TV shows to premiere over the summer in hopes of attracting more viewers
Summer was once a time to turn off the television and go outside, for nothing was on but reruns.
Film “HouseQuake” documents the 2006 congressional elections
If there is a political equivalent to Kanye West, as well-known for his dramatic flair as for his talent, it is Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff. At a political roast in 2005, Obama joked that when Emanuel lost part of his middle finger in a work accident years ago, it “rendered him practically mute.”
Prime | Faces of UCLA – Marques Vestal jr.
Around 2006, a young man named Marques Vestal Jr. read a book called “Race Matters,” by the American philosopher Cornel West. Vestal was studying computer engineering at California State University, Northridge, but because of that book, he switched his major to African American studies. Because of that book, there’s a good chance Vestal will matter to a lot of people.
Q & A with Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is a novelist, a senior writer and a book critic for Time Magazine and a contributor to techland.com.
Screen Scene: “Oceans”
The age of high-definition video is apparently also the age of the nature documentary.
Psychoanalysts dissect writer’s films
Among Hollywood’s so-called “difficult” writers, those who insist upon a level of intellectual effort that isn’t required to understand the human-Na’vi conflict, Charlie Kaufman is perhaps uniquely focused on finding new ways to represent psychological reality. In his most successful films ““ “Being John Malkovich,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Adaptation” and “Synecdoche, New York” ““ Kaufman often seems to be thinking out loud, on the screen, as he works through his stories.