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CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP

In 2010 NBC TV summarily fired ‘Tonight Show’ Host Conan O’Brien after just 7 months in the job order to rescue the sinking career of his predecessor Jay Leno who had bombed in his new early Show.  O’Brien had previously hosted his own Late Night Show that started at midnight for the previous 16 years … Continue reading

CORIOLANUS

If I had one regret about by youth (!) it would be that I never really studied enough Shakespeare in school, which is so sad as his incomparable prose just sings.  Especially when it is performed as well as in actor/director Ralph Fiennes’s new modern-day take on Coriolanus : yet another of Will’s plays that … Continue reading

CORMAN'S WORLD ; EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL

When I look down the long list of the hundreds of films that Roger Corman has either directed or produced I have no recollection of seeing a single one of them.  That obviously is not the case because as a teenager growing up in Britain in the 19..’s (well a few decades ago!) I lived … Continue reading

CORPO CELESTE

I rarely walk  out of Screenings at Sundance and I always sit to the (sometimes bitter) end hoping that even the worst movie will redeems itself before the final Credits roll. This however, is one such film that I wish I hadn’t wasted a whole 100 minutes on. This is a very weird cold fish of an … Continue reading

COSMOPOLIS

Eric Packer, a very young and handsome billionaire insists of having his whole fleet of stretch limos drive him to the other side of Manhattan because he wants to get a haircut at his favorite barbers which is located in the slightly salubrious poor neighborhood that he grew up in.  The trouble is that so … Continue reading

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