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Okay, so you have probably gone over this before but I missed it! I am shall we say “vertically challenged”?!I am under 5 feet tall and in desperate need of a pair of jeans.I …
Dear Sars,
I really admire your writing and your advice, so I wanted to ask you some etiquette questions that have been on my mind lately. Specifically, I had some questions about wedding engagement etiquette, and …
You may have noticed a shift in the categories and tags on the blog; I’m preparing for another redesign. I know it feels like I just ported everything over from the last redesign, but this …
I’ve done worse — but with 50 of the nominees under my belt, I should have done better.
The scorecard is below.
Best Picture: wrong
I really thought they’d try to split the baby between Avatar and The …
Well, friends, I gave it my best, but I couldn’t manage to watch them all. The final score is Sarah 50, Death Race 8 (86-ish percent) and 20 out of 24 categories completed (83 percent). …
A handful of nice moments — most of them from McAvoy, who isn’t nominated — but one review I read called the movie an acting showcase more than a plot, and I’d have to agree. …
This is a great movie. Here’s how I could tell: the version I saw had, bar none, the worst subtitling I’ve ever seen, and I have watched a fair amount of bootleg kung-fu in my …
Everyone looks beautiful, the acting is good (with one semi-exception), and Nine successfully evokes Fellini, but I don’t think I see the point of the exercise, here or in the stage original. That the dialogue …
Hi,
This isn’t the typical book question, but I know that the readers are an observant and helpful bunch so hopefully this isn’t too weird for them. Here goes.
I got a coupon off Facebook …
This is, I believe, the presumptive favorite for Best Foreign Film, with good reason. I’ve only seen one of the other nominees, and it’s good, but The White Ribbon is in another class entirely; it’s …