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Sandra Bullock needs to know her place (hint: it’s below her male co-stars), Hollywood is the domain of white men, the absence of ladies who criticize, and… Read more

Much of our enjoyment of a movie is based on expectations – and this title is misleading. Read more

Documenting what happens when 100 free-spirited artists stage a month long party where they live together 24/7, sleep in Japanese hotel-style pods, shower and eat communally, while their activities are recorded by surveillance cameras tucked into every corner of the environment — even in toilet bowls. Read more>>

RJ Cutler’s The September Issue provides access to the rarified environs of the fashion world, documenting the preparation of Vogue’s annual style bible and showing what happens within the offices of Vogue, at designer ateliers and runway shows, on photo shoots and in the back seat of prima fashionista Anna Wintour’s limo.Read more>>

A thriller of a documentary following Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Antarctic Campaign, during which two small ships were dispatched to the Ross Sea to prevent the mighty Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales. Read more>>

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Time-traveling husbands are implausible, but aliens who like cat food aren’t? Plus: Roger Friedman just now noticed how Hollywood hates women? Read more

Lifting the title from Enzo Castellari’s 1978 Italian W.W.II film, Quentin Tarantino begins with “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France” as he creates an alternate-reality fantasy/fable about a small group of Jewish-American soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Aldo “the Apache” Raine (Brad Pitt), a moonshine-maker from Tennessee, who wreak their own savage Nazi “retribution.” Read more

Director Doug Pray presents a parade of top adsters, each of whom expounds on the nature and importance of creativity and on how entertaining advertisements excite expectations and aspirations in those who see them. But there’s a complete avoidance of advertising’s questionable strategies and practices, and a disconnect from the role advertising plays in energizing excessive consumerism that has promoted extraordinary and damaging debt. Read more>>