Whenever there’s a new Woody Allen Film out, I am in the same trouble. On one hand every critic seems to rage about the New York neurotic and all my friends want to see the film immediately, but on the other hand I’m not really on one page with Woody when it comes to humor and have also been tought from very early on that Woody Allen is no good by my dad.
Now that To Rome with Love is out, I’m thus back in a familiar disaster. But after even ttt has an entire report about it, I went ahead and trotted to the cinema with my flatmates in order to give old Woody one more chance.
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by Lia | Movies
There are very few topics that haven’t yet been explored by a vast variety of films. But when it comes to men taking off their clothes for a living one struggles to come up with films really dealing with it. Although I wouldn’t have thought so, male stripping seems to be an under-represented issue in films. Oscar and Palme D’Or winning director Steven Soderbergh now puts the topic on the map. His new film Magic Mike stars plenty of half naked men thrusting their pelvises in order to make the all female audience scream hysterically…
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by Lia | Movies
What does a mother do, when her son turns out to be a cold-blooded killer? At first she will probably refuse to believe it was him before beginning to investigate what it was that corrupted her darling boy.
Eva (Tilda Swinton) does just that in Lynne Ramsay’s new film We need to talk about Kevin, when her 15-year-old son Kevin (Ezra Miller) goes on a killing spree in his High School… Read on…
by Lia | Movies
all art work: Gould
Sometimes I find Berlin absolutely amazing. Because the city gives people a chance. People who have a talent can show it here. Last year in summer I was at the graduation show of the Kunthochschule Weissensee and was allowed to let myself be inspired by a young artist named Gould and his exhibited series St. Nimmerlein. Gould stands out not just between his fellow students. The well-known artists should keep an eye on this newcomer. His saints reflect current problems based on the iconic painting of the Byzantine era. For me, a very successful and sophisticated artistic criticism of the system. More holy representations and contacts after the jump.
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by Claudio | Art
