A Prophet

Film+TV
September 5, 2013
Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up
Blogs
January 2, 2013
Doing the Best With the Least: 5 Great Aspects of Disappointing 2012 Movies
In a piece about good acting in bad movies he wrote last year, A.O. Scott suggested that "You might almost say that greatness shows itself precisely in the discrepancy between the performance and the material." It's in keeping with this notion that we've decided to highlight some of 2012's overachie ... More >>
Film+TV
November 1, 2012
20 Movies You Need to See at AFI Fest 2012
Film+TV
May 24, 2012
Marion Cotillard as a Hot Amputee in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone at Cannes Film Festival
Blogs
May 17, 2012
Cannes Fetish Porn? Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Sex Tourism in Paradise (Love)
Hot French double-amputee on bare-knuckle boxer sex. Fleshy Austrian cougar cycles between multiple young, fit African gigolos. Loglines of highly-specific fetish porn, or of movies premiering Thursday in the Cannes Film Festival main competition? Perhaps both, but definitely the latter: Oscar win ... More >>
Film+TV
March 17, 2011
LACMA Salutes 50 Years of Cannes Discoveries
Screening series draws on La semaine de la critique
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Quick Bite: Sai Krok Isaan (Sour Sausage) at Night Market
Guzzle & NoshSai Krok Isaan sausage at Night Market in West Hollywood.A splash of hot sauce. A sprinkling of crushed peanuts. A prisoner stabbing his cellmate to death. Which of these doesn't go well with pad thai? Opened in early December, Night Market is the more "adventurous," more st ... More >>
Film+TV
March 6, 2010
A Prophet: Like Scarface but French (and Not Brain-Dead)
With his Oscar-nominated feature, "French Scorsese" Jacques Audiard gives the crime genre new dimension
Film+TV
February 26, 2010
Movie Reviews: Zombie Girl, The Yellow Handkerchief, Defendor
Also, Easier With Practice, Formosa Betrayed and more