8 years ago
All posts by Tomris Laffly
“Dior and I”
The challenge: designing a couture collection for the legendary high fashion brand Christian Dior. The contender: Raf Simons, the newly appointed artistic director at the House of Dior. Time: eight stressful weeks in the spring of 2012. The output? That's like...
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“While We’re Young”
In the early moments of While We’re Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach’s charming, glossy, and freshly funny exercise on aging and generational anxiety, a childless forty-something couple, Josh and Cornelia (lovably played by Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts), ar...
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“Cinderella”
It wasn’t even a year ago when Disney’s infamous Sleeping Beauty villain received a feminist makeover and became a relatable, sympathetic heroine in Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent. The worldwide phenomenon called Frozen only recently redefined true love as a si...
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“Maps to the Stars”
For a director who’s never shot a film in the States before, David Cronenberg surely wastes no energy to ease in to the process with his new effort, and aims for the heart from the get-go. In his uncanny Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars, everyone is haunted ...
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“Wild Tales”
Injustice is all around. There isn’t a single person who hasn’t been completely pushed over the edge by a routine, everyday unfairness at one point or the other. If our collective laments and releases of anger on various social media pages –towards even the mo...
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“Cake”
In Daniel Barnz’s Cake, rom-com queen Jennifer Aniston is given the chance to stretch her acting muscles beyond the fluffy fodder for which she’s well-known. Aniston plays Claire Bennett, a woman suffering from constant physical and emotional pain, and the for...
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“Taken 3”
Taken 3 is a movie in which no one's really taken. At least not in the fashion of Taken and Taken 2: you know, someone gets kidnapped and then resident badass Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) shows the abductors all. No one in Taken 3 seems to have any “particular se...
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“American Sniper”
Warning. Spoilers regarding real-life figures lay within.
In his career-best, the 2006 war saga Letters from Iwo Jima (the companion to Flags of our Fathers), Clint Eastwood zeroed in on the story of a Japanese baker-turned-soldier named Saigo (Kazunari Nin...
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“The Color of Time”
You couldn’t possibly find a more “James Franco” project, produced by and starring James Franco, than The Color of Time, even if you tried. This is certainly not articulated as an insult or mockery, but rather, noted with a bizarre, distant, mild admiration. F...
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“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1”
You can call what’s going to follow “half a review”, as for reasons that evidently don’t stretch beyond doubling up the box office of the franchise’s final installment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1 is also cut up in half. This is the first half of Su...
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