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Let’s Talk About Sex is written and directed by Troy Beyer, who also stars as Jazz, an agony aunt columnist in Miami who wants to be the host of a TV talk show called “Girl Talk.” Her getting the gig depends on her putting together a demo tape in only a few days, which starts…
Movie illnesses used to be the kind of thing that beautiful young women contracted. The silent killer was sure in its work, but it always left them looking in the pink when they finally breathed their last. They were still beautiful, but now also charged with pathos. Looking on them you might says, as Romeo…
An interesting updating of Henry James’s novel chiefly worth seeing for the performance of its title character
Perhaps not the best of the recent crop of movies about grief, this Israeli film is nevertheless very watchable
A remarkably sympathetic portrayal of the early life of St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei — though it gains nothing from being tangled up with a fictional romance
Another propaganda effort, along the lines of Pleasantville or American Beauty, against what could still be called, in the 1950s, middle class morality.